Tag: “Organize”

Hello everyone!

After exploring doing fewer things, Cal Newport’s first principle of Slow Productivity, today we dive into the next one: working at a natural pace. This principle challenges one of the most deeply rooted beliefs in modern work culture: that more hours and constant intensity equal better results.

It’s common that when you’ve been using a personal productivity app for a long time that allows you to use tags to provide context to your tasks and classify all kinds of content, there comes a time when the number of tags you’ve generated becomes quite large.

We have already established that to be well organized we need a clear and intuitive relationship between the things we need to organize and the place where we put them. In other words, everything must be in its place.

Given the large number of things that can attract our attention throughout the day, and given their variable and often ambiguous nature — tasks, information, ideas, messages, emails, conversations, memories, thoughts, things to be determined —, it becomes necessary to have a kind of extended mind that allows us to release the pressure from our head so that it can devote itself to more productive things.