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Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

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How to Optimise Your To-Do List Experience with Bento and Akiflow

An interesting upgrade to your to-do list to get less done — Today, we’re announcing a collaboration with Akiflow We’re celebrating the Bento Methodology and how it can be used in this daily planner/to-do list tool like Akiflow so in today’s post we’ll show you how and also how to get a healthy 20% off the full Bento Methodology course. < ✨ Use AKIFLOW20 to get the Bento Methodology…

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How to Optimise Your To-Do List Experience with Bento and Akiflow
How to Optimise Your To-Do List Experience with Bento and Akiflow

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

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Getting Started with Bento

Your ultimate guide to optimising the Bento app and method — First off, welcome to the Bento app. We’re excited to have you here and show you around the Bento app and methodology. This is a helpful guide to all you need to know and everything you need to get started with Bento. Just so you know, if you have any questions — you can always email Francesco…

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Getting Started with Bento
Getting Started with Bento

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·Jul 24

5 Best YouTube Channels for Digital Minimalism & Focus

Declutter your digital workspaces and better manage them — The evolution of the digital minimalist movement is exciting. The act of having less to focus on in the digital world feels totally against the rules. …

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5 Best YouTube Channels for Digital Minimalism &
5 Best YouTube Channels for Digital Minimalism &

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·Jun 20

80+ Tasks is the New 60 Hour Week

Why tasks will become the next metric in the workspace — In the last few years, the 60 to 80-hour work week has been given a bad name, with good reasonings. The pressures on team members and managers has taken its toll, with more sick days, workday stress on the rise and career moves becoming common. The American Institute of Stress…

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80+ Tasks is the New 60 Hour Week
80+ Tasks is the New 60 Hour Week

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·Jun 10

Stop Switching, Start Staying!

Why building an effective productivity framework means more! — One of the biggest issue we’ve always face since the launch of popular productivity apps like Evernote has been changing tools. With the growing market of options — from Notion to Bento — the available solutions constantly evolve and become available. 📱 Switching As a whole switching tools is a bad habit. If your goal is to go with the next hottest tool — something we don’t advocate — you will only…

Productivity

3 min read

Stop Switching, Start Staying!
Stop Switching, Start Staying!

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·Jun 6

The Bento Methodology has arrived!

Our next step to teaching you how to do more meaningful work — In April 2022, we introduced the Bento app on iOS — a stunning way to focus on 3 tasks for your day. A large, medium and small one. During the long year of development, we created a methodology — a way of working — helping you focus on less tasks…

Productivity

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The Bento Methodology has arrived!
The Bento Methodology has arrived!

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·May 18

The Art of “生き甲斐”

How to implement 生き甲斐 into your daily life — Addressed in “On the Meaning of Life” by Mieko Kamiya in 1966, the art of Ikigai has been long-embedded in Japanese culture — as the purpose for living, something many have embraced for centuries.

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The Art of “生き甲斐”
The Art of “生き甲斐”

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·May 3

Introducing Life/Work Balance

Our focus will shift towards a less approach to work — Yuval Noah Harari in his book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” explores the rapid pace of the world’s innovations and the presence of AI. Digging into machine learning, Yuval suggests the future will look very much different to today’s work landscape with more jobs being substituted for robots and…

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Introducing Life/Work Balance
Introducing Life/Work Balance

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·Apr 19

5 Note-Taking Apps to Pair with Your To-Do List Apps

Manage your notes and tasks with these pairings — There are hundreds of to-do list applications out there. Plenty to choose from Todoist to TickTick all they to Motion and many more. And depending on what to-do list app you’ve gone with, likely chances you might want to pair it with a note-taking app for taking notes. I’ve shortlisted a few different types of note-taking applications that can…

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5 Note-Taking Apps to Pair with Your To-Do List Apps
5 Note-Taking Apps to Pair with Your To-Do List Apps

Francesco D'Alessio

Francesco D'Alessio

·Apr 11

Why Balance Between Energy & Productivity Matters in Your Day

Exploring how energy and pace matters in your day — The pace of how we work has been ever-increasing. Work/life balance has become drastically difficult to navigate, with more mindful ways to take breaks but new challenges like remote work to counter progress being made with our day-to-day productivity. The best way to describe work/life balance is seesaw. Whilst it goes up and down, we know that (if it isn’t broken) when we take ourselves away from it…

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Why Balance Between Energy & Productivity Matters in Your Day
Why Balance Between Energy & Productivity Matters in Your Day
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