Make time
by Jake Knapp · first published 2018
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Do you ever wonder where your day went? Or daydream about activities you'll get to "someday"? Knapp and Zeratsky share their tactics for a four-step daily framework that you can use to systematically re-design your days. Highlight, Laser, Energize, Reflect. You may not be able to add more hours to your day-- but you can learn to make your life your own, day by day. -- adapted from jacket
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I don't get what introvert has to do with focus. Besides that, if you really need to stay off your phone, consider a "distraction free" phone as outlined in the book Make Time by Jake Knapp. Its a solid book but you can also glean that part of it from his blog: https://medium.com/make-time/six-years-with-a-distraction-fr... His version might be extreme for some. At the very…
on “Show HN: Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone” ↗After trying out a dumb phone for a while last year, I found I still wanted modern phone features like camera, decent text messaging, shared calendar, maps, etc.. One idea in Make Time [1] was the idea of deleting distracting apps from your phone, which makes your phone into an amazing tool that does not foster distraction. I found this to be better than using Apple/Facebook/Google…
on “Digital Detox Startups?” ↗…using Coda and Glitch. This idea came to me after my 2nd gen iPad was crashing Nick Burka's One Big Thing app. I remixed his app with John Zeratsky's and Jake Knapp's Highlight concept from their book, Make Time. I organized my thoughts around highlights and my journey to focus in one piece. Read it here: https://medium.com/@kunalslab/what-do-you-want-the-highlight...
on “What do you want the highlight of your day to be?” ↗