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Guides & Courses

NEW: Simple Time Management

Get back hours of your life and remove the mess (and stress) from your schedule. »

All the Things

Productivity and task management training, plus in-depth video tutorials for Things 3. »

Simple Habits

Use routines to make your life a little bit more manageable, a little bit easier, and a whole lot better. »

Manage and Develop Your Ideas

Improve your creative process, and save time, with a simple system for developing your ideas. Plus in-depth screencasts for MindNode. »

GoodNotes + Templates

Custom productivity templates plus screencast tutorials for GoodNotes on iPad. »

Day One In Depth

The most extensive video guide to Day One available today, plus ideas and workflow examples. »

Learn Ulysses

Organize your writing and capture your ideas with this video course to help you quickly learn Ulysses. »

Mobile Photography

Extensive video tutorials and training to take your photos from average to awesome. »

Unlock 1Password

In-depth video tutorials to use 1Password like a pro. »

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Save 45% ($241 discount) when you get all ten in-depth courses to complete your library. »

What’s so great about relational databases? We have been big fans of Notion for a while now, and relational databases are what makes Notion, well Notion. If you had a lot of organized spreadsheets next to each other that would be great, but in Notion your organized spreadsheets talk to each other. Relational databases connect […] »

Why not do less?

As a chronic maximizer, here are a few reminders that I need from time to time. You don’t have to take action on every idea. There’s no need to push every project to the max; ship when things are useful. You can make a decision without knowing every last detail and option; action will bring […] »

Using Sunsama to Start and Shut Down Your Day, Creating More Focus, and More

Catch up on what we published this week, including an example for starting up and closing out your day with Sunsama, some tips on focus, and more. »

How to Startup and Shutdown Your Day with Sunsama

Way, way back when, Shawn showed off one of his cool tricks for spurring the creative juices each morning. Rather than sitting down cold turkey at the computer to begin work for the day, Shawn would leave a note right in front of his keyboard the prior evening outlining the next step, the next idea, […] »

The Margin Reset: A Complete Guide to Getting Your Time Back

This week, we are kicking off our next Focus Booster inside the community. And it’s a Complete Guide to Margin. How to go from busy and overwhelmed to…. not busy There are only two ways you can restore margin to your life. And they’re actually quite simple… As part of our upcoming Margin Reset — […] »