Meet Brittany Joiner, a software engineer at Elastic and Taskable user based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from Knoxville, Tennessee. In addition to her day job as an engineer, Brittany is a fellow productivity nerd. She runs a YouTube channel and newsletter aimed at helping people improve their productivity. A day in the life A significant…

Office distractions can make timeblocking trickier. But it’s still possible to timeblock even when not working from home. After two years of working fully remote (like much of the rest of the world), I recently returned to the office for a few weeks while in San Francisco for the Pioneer…

If you’re using Notion as a personal productivity tool, you probably shouldn’t be. Notion is a great product. It’s beautiful, highly flexible, even fun to use. It can be used for a ton of different purposes. A small selection of things I’ve used it for in the past: CRM Project…

Building habits is challenging. Here is how the magic of timeblocking can help you carve out time and build consistency. Does this sound familiar: you make a new year’s resolution to get in shape. And during the first week or two of January, you get out for a run every…

Productivity planner: should I use old-fashioned pen and paper or go digital for my task planning and prioritizing? The single best way to boost your productivity is to plan better. That means deciding your priorities for the day, week, or even month and then executing against that plan. There are…

Not sure what is calendar blocking versus time blocking and other productivity methods? Here’s a quick breakdown. Deciphering between various productivity systems and methods can be overwhelming. There are several to choose from, including Pomodoro, Getting Things Done, and calendar blocking. One of the common questions we get is, what…

Human brains are wired to work on one thing at a time. While many people think they are good multitaskers, science clearly shows humans overestimate our ability to multitask. This perception doesn’t correlate with our actual ability. The fact is context switching is a major productivity killer. Dr. Gloria Mark…

For the fourth article in our Find Your Flow series, we share tips on how to reduce decision fatigue as you go through your day. As knowledge workers, we take for granted how much having to constantly make decisions wears on us throughout our day. What should I wear to…

Eat that frog first thing in the morning, and get your biggest productivity done. Here’s why it works, and a guide to eating the frog with Taskable. Have you ever had big, important, complex tasks looming over you? And instead of tackling it, you work on smaller, more manageable, less…