How to Form Good Habits (and Cut Bad Ones) for Better Productivity

For anyone striving to become more productive in the digital age, there are some long-trusted tactics they’ll inevitably encounter: conserving willpower, working to find motivation, an endless variety of productivity “hacks” and apps. But these things aren’t the key to truly getting more done. Most of what drives your output is not the result of […]

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Smartphone Addiction: Causes and How to Break the Cycle

In our article series on increasing your productivity, we’ve discussed topics like setting better goals and getting into a flow state. But in order to truly assess our productivity today, we need to grapple with one particular piece of equipment that promises to make our lives easier but in reality causes all sorts of new […]

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What is a Flow State and How Do I Achieve It for Peak Productivity?

ivity, it’s easy to get sidetracked by the allure of shiny new tools like apps, browser plugins, and the like that all promise major results. But in order to achieve significant and lasting behavioral change, you need to start within. And today’s article will outline a particular state of mind you can achieve in order […]

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How to Set Better Goals That Will Make You More Productive

With distractions everywhere these days–from browser tabs to phone notifications–it can seem challenging if not impossible to actually get major things done. So how can we be more productive in the digital age? One of the best things you can do to increase your productivity is to adjust the way you set your goals so […]

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Standalone GPS vs. Google Maps on Smartphone: Which to Use?

Not too long ago traveling by car in a new area meant consulting unwieldy print maps, stopping to ask locals for directions or even just making educated guesses and hoping you eventually reach your destination. But with the proliferation of devices that receive GPS signals, the game has radically changed. At their most basic level, […]

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How to Pin Google Calendar or Gmail to Your Windows Taskbar

If you use Google services, such as Gmail, Maps and Calendar, you likely want them easily accessible. There are a couple of ways ways to do this, including setting one as your browser homepage, setting up links in your Bookmarks bar, or even pinning tabs in Google Chrome. But you might prefer these icons to […]

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Gmail Advanced Search Tips: Cutting Through That Inbox Clutter

Google products are known for their usability and uncluttered interfaces. This is great for novices, but users who demand more precision can be left frustrated as their basic keyword searches yield masses of irrelevant results. Gmail is one service in particular where it can be difficult to sift through a huge library of emails trying […]

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Continuous Partial Attention on the Social Web: Beneficial or Dangerous?

In today’s environment of constant connectivity, we routinely slog through multiple tasks in a single session. Blinking notifications pull us away from whatever we had been doing to something more pressing. We surf the web by opening up multiple browser tabs and scrolling back and forth between various articles, email accounts, social media streams and other types […]

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Can Microsoft Office Stay Relevant for a Future in the Cloud?

Microsoft Office has remained the industry standard for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations for many years, an impressive feat. But in terms of meaningful innovation, there hasn’t been a whole lot lately. Sure, there have been plenty of Office updates (too many, some would say), but they are mainly cosmetic changes and bundles of new “features” […]

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More Than Just MOOCs: The Major Types of Online Education Today

Online education is often talked about as a homogeneous force poised to either bring radically improved education to every corner of the globe or ruin learning and knowledge as we know it. But in reality there are many different types of online education across which generalizations can’t be made. A more nuanced understanding of these varieties, […]

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