Get Organized
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How to Make a Family To-Do List and Calendar
A shared grocery shopping list, chore list, and communal calendar for everyone in your household can put everyone on the same page and keep your family organized.
How to Pick the Right Calendar App to Improve Your Productivity
Calendar apps are a dime a dozen, but very few are true calendars. Learn the difference and find out how our top picks can help you stay organized.
Get Organized: Tools for Better Meetings
Meetings suck and everyone hates them. You can change that if you make your meetings more productive and efficient with these apps and tools.
10 Ways to Tidy Up Your Phones and PCs for the New Year
Organize your phone, tablet, and computer with these quick and easy tips from productivity expert Jill Duffy. Investing just a little time here at the beginning of the year could make a big difference for all of 2020.
10 Tips and 9 Tools for Better Project Management
Most of us have to manage projects in some capacity, even if we are not project managers. Productivity expert Jill Duffy shares some advice from the professionals to keep your project and team organized and on track.
How to Change Your Mobile Email Signature
"Sent from my iPhone." "Sent from my Samsung Galaxy." Does your phone add a sendoff line to all your emails? If you've procrastinated changing it, productivity expert Jill Duffy explains how to fix it in about a minute.
20 Tools for More Productive Email
Productivity expert Jill Duffy reveals a score of email apps, plug-ins, and services that can make your digital life easier to manage and more organized.
5 Ways to Make Your iPhone Less Annoying
The iPhone offers a highly polished user experience, but iOS does have some quirks that you might find irritating. Our quick tips can help you shut down some of the biggest culprits.
How to Beat iPhone App Overload
That killer app only helps you if you can find it on your iPhone when you need it. Productivity expert Jill Duffy tells you how to keep your apps tidy and organized so they're always at your fingertips.
9 Ways to Make Customers Want to Open Your Emails
Productivity Expert Jill Duffy explains how to get more recipients to actually open those critical messages, whether they're marketing, sales, or any other kind of list-based emails.
Clean Up Your Browser Tabs Using the Best Web Clippers
Web clippers let you save articles, recipes, and other content into a dedicated app. Productivity expert Jill Duffy shows you how web clippers can help streamline your focus and cut down on the number of open tabs in your browser.
3 Tips for a Better Gmail Inbox
Feeling overwhelmed by Gmail? Productivity expert Jill Duffy shows you how to clean up your inbox by creating aliases, filtering your mail, and customizing your inbox view.
5 Ways to Cut Back on Social Media
Social media can hurt your productivity and even your mental health, but quitting cold turkey isn't the right step for everyone. Limit your time on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networks with our simple steps.
How to Use Appointment Booking Apps to Boost Your Business
Let your clients schedule appointments online or from a phone or tablet with an appointment booking app. They can help your businesses run more efficiently and many of them are free.
How to Use Track Changes in Google Docs
Learn about and discuss the changes other people want to make to your writing within the documents themselves with Google Docs, an excellent tool for working collaboratively.
How to Kill Email With the Right Project Management Software
Reducing email can improve communication if you replace it with the right tool. For many teams, using one of the best project management services is the better choice.
How to Manage Your Browser Extensions
Some browser extensions have been found to collect your data, including identifying information. Take a few minutes to review your extensions to make sure you're not at risk.
How to Quit Gmail and Reclaim Your Privacy
Switching from Gmail and other free email services to a more privacy-focused email provider might seem like a hassle, but productivity expert Jill Duffy shows you how to do it with minimal fuss.
Get Organized: How to Copy Your Contacts From One App to Another
These methods for getting your contact information from one app into another are simple, whether you're working with an email app or CRM.
11 Tips for Managing Email More Efficiently
Productivity expert Jill Duffy shows you how adopting a few simple tricks can help you organize your email. Taking a little time to learn new habits now could save you countless hours down the road
