Learn To Manage More Effectively With Priority Matrix
Priority Matrix can serve as your unified, synced bookmarks for web urls across your iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows, and Android. Never lose your reading list again, set due dates and priorities on your web urls for later reading (and get reminded to read them). Setting up is super easy on your desktop — simply drag…
Read moreRecently I got more interested in learning. In particular, learning how to learn. I’d like to share a few tips here that I thought would be beneficial to all of us as we become life long learners. A few important things I want to point out from my self assessment. 1) Information gaps. While trying…
Read moreNot long ago, I sat down with Kristy Lin Billuni (also known as the Sexy Grammarian), to talk about productivity, her work helping writers improve their work, and how to overcome writer’s block, among other things. What follows is a summary of what we discussed. Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez: So Kristy, tell me what you do, how…
Read moreAre you more productive at the start of the week than the middle of the week? If you’re like me, I’ve found that I’m most productive during Monday mornings. The reason is simple: I know what I have to do (catch up for the weekend). After looking at what I’ve done previously, I thought I’d…
Read morePriority Matrix supports a very useful feature we call the Item Inbox. It lets users like you send an email message to a special address in our server, in order to create a new item. This enables interesting use cases, such as: You receive an email from a colleague describing some task to be added…
Read moreToday, the San Francisco Business Times covered Appfluence and our founding story – a little bit on our roots and background. You can read it here, titled “Stanford PhD invents shared productivity app”. On a related note, they previously mentioned our co-founder Pablo in their article called “A higher-ed calling for disruptive startups”, where he…
Read moreCustomers sometimes wonder what happens here at Appfluence on a regular workday. Thought I’d share a screenshot taken this morning of Pablo (our head of engineering) working directly on solving a a few bugs for customers. Pablo’s sporting the latest Macbook Air, an ultrabook tablet, as well as a Microsoft Surface, all of which are…
Read moreHow good are you at meeting deadlines? In the past week, have you shifted a meeting or deadline back because something urgent has come up? A failure to meet deadlines can often be traced to urgency addiction. You may find that you push back on a longer term task because other seemingly urgent matters get in…
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Managing your priority has never been more important in the current era of information overload. Everyday, you, me, and everyone around us experience task paralysis, i.e., you have so many things to do, you are unable to decide what to work on next. Priority Matrix is designed to solve this very problem. The approach is…
Read moreTime management for teachers Summer break is just around the corner for students and teachers around the country. After our popular article on time management skills for students, we thought we’d take this time to share some practical time management tips for teachers we’ve learnt from many of our Priority Matrix customers who work in…
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