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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. »

Bundle up and Save

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

The iterations are getting smaller, there’s no doubt about it. iPhone 12 Pro to iPhone 13 Pro included a substantially better battery, a smaller notch, and the standard camera improvements. I say “standard camera improvements” because Apple’s largely just playing the physics game here rather than the technology game — take a look at how much bigger the camera lenses are on the back of the iPhone 14 Pro and you’ll see where the year-over-year-over-year improvements are truly coming from. »

Create Quick macOS Reminders with Gestimer

Task managers are great for helping you to remember to take action on your important projects, but what about the little reminders that pop throughout the day? Often creating a task for something you have to do later in the day feels cumbersome. So often, we skip capturing that thought when we have it — and then forget to do it later. »

Things vs OmniFocus vs Todoist: A Comparison of the Best GTD and Productivity Apps

With so many excellent task management apps to choose from, it can be difficult to know which one is the best fit. We've compared the top three productivity apps to help you decide. »

Using Alfred Workflows to Launch and Hide Apps, iPhone 14 Pro Reviews, and More

Catch up on what we published this week, including a look at using Alfred to launch and hide apps with hotkeys, some iPhone 14 Pro and Apple Watch reviews from our friends, and more. »

Launching and Hiding Apps in macOS with Hotkeys Through Alfred Workflows

Small actions taken over a long period add up to a significant amount of progress. This is no surprise, and it's something we hear time and time again. But it's normally mentioned when someone is trying to motivate you to add small, daily actions that will bring you great benefit later. »