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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. »

Bundle up and Save

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

One of the newest apps I discovered was Heptabase, a research-specific PKM app that uses a more visual approach to presenting your research and learning. Heptabase uses whiteboards, sections, and mind maps to connect your thinking and has unique PDF features that will be sure to catch the attention of professors, graduate and doctorate students, and more. »

Looking at Apple Mail, Custom Planning Templates in GoodNotes, and More

Catch up on what we published this week, including a list of our favorite books, creating custom planner templates in GoodNotes, and more. »

Overwhelmed? Try this…

Have you ever looked up the dictionary definition of “overwhelm”? It’s pretty intense, actually. bury or drown beneath a huge mass defeat completely give too much of a thing to someone If you’re feeling overwhelmed, then perhaps you feel as though you’ve been given too much. In fact, you’ve been given so much that you’re to the point of feeling buried beneath a huge mass of stuff… urgent issues undone tasks incoming requests of your time and energy As a result, you feel overpowered and defeated. When you’re overwhelmed with too many priorities, it can feel impossible to find the […] »

How to Use Custom Planning Templates Inside of GoodNotes

Analog vs. Digital The battle for analog vs. digital for productivity tools has never been more fierce. On the one hand, what digital tools are able to accomplish continues to amaze as technology advances. On the other hand, technology also opens the door to distractions and interruptions and there’s a lot to be said for analog tools and the focus they help you achieve. But by using GoodNotes along with custom notebook templates, you can literally have the best of both worlds: Pre-designed page templates that are exactly what you want to use. The analog feel of writing using the […] »

Our Favorite Books to Recommend

We are pretty avid readers over here. The books we’ve read have helped shape who we are as people and what our company values and offers to our customers. We all take time in our weekly routine to dive into some kind of book, be it a business development book or a gripping novel. We also get asked a lot about book recommendations. Especially during our semi-annual cohorts of Focus Academy (btw you can enroll now for our October cohort). Shawn drops book recommendations left, right, and center during our sessions. We now have a running list of all of […] »