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Productivity & Time Management Resources

Achieving your productivity, focus, and time management goals can be challenging.

Daily frictions act as restraining forces in your life that can work against the achievement of your highest aims and ambitions. With support from the right tools and strategies, you can overcome these obstacles and achieve your goals.

Produced through a collaboration of the Alacrity Academy team – The tools and strategies shared on this page are meant
to be used as resources to assist our students in excelling in our bootcamp courses. These, however, can be applied to any area of life.

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Success Strategies

Productivity Strategies

  • Deep Work Focus – Focus your efforts, avoid task switching, and get more done.
  • Environment Design – Design your work environment to facilitate productivity and focus.
  • Pareto Principle – Which of your efforts truly drive your results?
  • Pomodoro Technique – Do you have 25 minutes? Break work into intervals to drive results. – (Tool We Recommend: Pomofocus.io)
  • Task Batching – Group Similar tasks to increase productivity, focus, quality of work.
  • Working Backwards – Visualize the end result and work backwards to deduce a plan of action. (The link shared discusses product development, but this can be applied to any goal.)

Study Strategies

Time Management Strategies

  • Day Theming – Allocate days for specific intiatives. – (Tool We Recommend: Timely)
  • Time Blocking – Time management method to achieve more in your day.  – (Tool We Recommend: TimeBloc)
  • Time Boxing – Time management method to plan your day and improve productivity. – (Tool We Recommend: Clockify)

Software & Tools

Productivity

  • Evernote (Free) – Note taking app for organization and task management.
  • Forest (Free) – Stay focused and plant a forest while doing so
  • Momentum (Free) – Chrome extension to drive productivity
  • Noisli (Free) – Sound generator to improve focus and productivity
  • Notion (Free) – Note taking and project management software
  • Todoist (Free) – To Do list to stay organized and on track

Organization & Notes

  • Asana (Free) – Organize, Track, and Manage your work.
  • Evernote (Free) – Note taking app for organization and task management.
  • Milanote (Free) – Organize creative projects into visual boards
  • Mindmeister (Free) – Create mind maps to visualize your thoughts and organize information.
  • Notion (Free) – Note taking and project management software
  • Trello (Free) – Kanban-style list making tool to stay organized and on track.

    Time Management

    • Beeminder (Free) – Progress Tracker with Accountability
    • nTask (Paid) – Project Planning & Time Tracking Tool
    • Rescuetime (Free) – Time Tracking & Time Management Tool
    • Toggl (Paid) – Time Tracking & Project Planning software

      Visual Organization

      • Datawrapper (Free) – Organize and visualize your data in charts, maps, tables
      • Milanote (Free) – Organize Creative Projects
      • Mindmeister (Free) – Create mind maps to visualize your thoughts and organize information.