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Category Archives: productivity

5 habit-forming, practice-developing strategies that you can work with during the upcoming month February 19, 2023
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On calendars, synchronization and collaborative work in academia: Aligning Priorities and Availabilities across multiple people September 25, 2022
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Analog note-taking when highlighting is not possible (e.g. books) November 28, 2020
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Project management for academics III: Juggling multiple writing/research projects September 13, 2020
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Organizing work/school-related digital files July 5, 2020
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On the importance of routine in academic writing June 7, 2020
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A typology of academic (daily) work: “runway work”, “grunt work” and “writing/research” work May 17, 2020
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Time spent “on the runway” is time well spent May 2, 2020
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What are the differences between a Research Trajectory, a Research Programme and a Research Pipeline? April 17, 2020
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On the importance of good record-keeping, considering notes as records, and the searchability function in note-taking February 2, 2020
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Project management for academics I: Managing a research pipeline December 19, 2019
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Prioritizing work and the TOMs/TOTOs hierarchy December 1, 2019
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A modest proposal for desk organization September 2, 2019
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Building redundancies in personal organization and productivity systems: why it works for me December 8, 2018
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Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits–to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life (my reading notes) May 5, 2018
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The “Accomplish Two Things Before Anything Else” approach: Dealing with academic life under pressure April 16, 2018
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125-250 words, 15 minutes: Setting small writing goals to build an academic writing practice April 13, 2018
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Move Every Paper Forward Every Day (MEPFED) vs Work on One Project Each Day (WOPED) February 4, 2017
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Different reading strategies II: Engaging at the meso-level January 31, 2017
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Reverse-planning (backcasting) a paper (or a research project) December 31, 2016
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My yearly planning process through the Everything Notebook December 28, 2016
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Simplifying your document processing: The Four Trays Method December 26, 2016
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Project Planning Protocol – From idea to paper in one swift sequence November 16, 2016
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On doing the grunt work in academia November 6, 2016
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A few warm-up strategies to start your workday October 14, 2016
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