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805 articles · Page 14 of 34

Motivation · 2 min read

Grit vs. Talent in Progress

Grit vs. Talent in Progress “Very often when we talk about the skill of ‘productivity’ what we are really talking about is ‘self-control’ — the disciplined ability to choose to do one thing at the cost of not doing another (perhaps more tempting thing).” As the nature of work changes to more flexible design, we [...]

Time · 2 min read

Google Calendar, iDoneThis Sharing, and More!

Hi there. We’re proud to announce two new features to you. Friends, iDoneThis users, humans, Dundee the productive dog — lend me your ears. Get your iDoneThis daily dones in your Google Calendar! Click on the “Feed” link underneath your iDoneThis calendar. You will receive a secret link that you can plug into your Goog

Productivity · 3 min read

How Rakesh Nair Stayed Productive for 100-Straight Days

Meet Rakesh Nair, software developer, writer, and foodie. Rakesh stays productive with his many projects so that at day’s end he can write down his accomplishments in iDoneThis. BIO I express myself almost completely in three words which form a part of my Twitter bio: Fat, Humorous, Witty. I love food, all kinds, with

Productivity · 3 min read

How I Ran a 10K

This is how I trained to go from zero to running 10K in 12 weeks. When I started, I couldn't even run 1 mile.

Management · 2 min read

How To Be An Excellent Leader: The Best of the Internet

Catch up with the best of what we’ve shared on the interwebs this week! The rise of the culture hacker. The antidote to burnout is progress. Check in with people. Don’t check up on them. Want to be an excellent leader? Read these 10 books. Teach why startups fail. Dundee’s Tip…

Productivity · 10 min read

How to Master the Art of To-Do Lists by Understanding Why They Fail

The to-do list is an inescapable, age-old productivity tool. It is our very human attempt to create order in our disorderly lives and express our ability to impose self-control. Most of us, including to-do list haters, keep one, and the fact is, they can work when you find the to-do…

Productivity · 5 min read

How to Make Sound Decisions About Your Product Design’s Future

Product design is all about tradeoffs—and when we designed I Done This 2.0, we had a lot to consider. We added new functionality, like blockers. But we also noticed a few patterns in our user behavior data that we weren't quite sure what to do with. We find, for example,…

Communication · 5 min read

How to Leverage Psychology to Provide Better Customer Support

Despite the growing popularity of instant-messaging support and “conversational agents”—better known as chatbots—actually talking to a customer on the phone is one of the best ways to engage in a real conversation and learn more about a customer’s problems. Done right, such conversations can be helpful, valuable, and e

Time · 9 min read

How to Grow a Blog the Hard Way

Oftentimes, one of the biggest roadblocks to creating great content isn’t finding the time to write it or coming up with new angles to well-worn topics or establishing a regular publication schedule. It’s finding smart, knowledgeable subject-matter experts who are willing to actually write content. This, more than anyt

Management · 4 min read

How to Sync Items from a Kanban Board to your Daily Standup

This is a guest post from Kim Kadiyala, Partnership Manager at Zapier. A daily status update is only as helpful as it is complete. If your team struggles to log their dones, goals, and blockers, rest assured you’re not alone. But if you’re using a project management tool like Asana, Trello, or Basecamp to take [...]

Communication · 4 min read

How We Grew a Six-Figure Email List

Giveaways grow email lists. Remember that people are generally reluctant to give their address up unless they're going to get something of value in return.

Productivity · 6 min read

How We Host Meetups

Customer meetups let you casually interact with your users, building a system of trust and loyalty for your company. Here's how we host ours!