Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Beating Procrastination

Stuck? The first step in beating procrastination is to understand why you're procrastinating. Analyze the reasons for procrastination and find a solution. Here are some tips for getting unstuck:

Cleaning off Your Desk with Personal Knowbase

Today is National Clean Off Your Desk Day, which falls on the second Monday of January every year. Personal Knowbase can't help you get rid of old pens, half-used batteries, and that broken coffee mug. But it can help you tidy up all those scattered bits of paper.

As part of your efforts, try this:

Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Focusing on Your Work

Lack of concentration can cause serious problems with our ability to get work done and, more importantly, how well we do our work. If we are constantly unfocused, distracted, and interrupted, the quantity and quality of our work falls. Here are 5 tips to help you focus.

Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Sending Email

Composing and sending emails can eat up a lot of time. Here are some tips for making your email production process more effective and efficient:

Productivity Tips: 5 Tips for Your Email Inbox

Every year, our email inboxes get fuller and fuller. For many people, email is the preferred method of communication due to the ease of sending emails. Unlike with phone calls, both parties don't have to be available at the same time, you can send the same message to multiple recipients, and you can copy and paste blocks of text without rewriting. Here are tips for getting the deluge under control:

Productivity Tips: Preventing Interruptions

Interruptions are a problem for anybody whose work requires concentration for a block of time. The ability to focus is necessary for problem solving tasks and creative work like writing.

If you need an interruption-free block of time, here are some tips:

Productivity Tips: 5 Writing Tips for Everyone

Whether you're writing fiction or non-fiction, memos or sagas, letters or white papers, here are five tips for improving your writing and completing your project.