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A new year has just begun. Even if we live in a ...

The open and/or activity-based office spaces seem to be increasing in number.

Many who are used to ...

Erika e-mailed me and gave me a tip about an episode of ...

According to the Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in the 1920s, loose ends make us ...

Microsoft To-Do has it. So does Trello. And Things. And Todoist as well ...

You know how it is. You return to work after a few weeks of vacation and the inbox is virtually filled to the brim with unread e-mails. And as if that was not enough ...

Does someone who has a case management system really need a to-do-list? It is apparent what to do next by looking in the system, so there is no need for you to remember anything yourself. And what about those ...

Do you know these three tricks for escaping "Zoom fatigue"?

Because, ...

I have noticed that having and using papers in your work, especially a lot of papers, is by some people regarded as being old-fashioned. Someone shamefully confesses ...

Even if the item we need to save and store is not flat so that you can hole-punch it and file it away in a binder, we still need to keep it since we use it from time to time, although we do not want to ...

It can be quite the hassle keeping up with all the chats we're part of nowadays. It's one thing to ...

If you feel an acute need to improve on your structure, you might also feel that it is hard to know where to begin. Perhaps you want to ...

I write quite a lot in my line of work - and I record podcasts. When I have a script to read while recording, I want that to ...

A common structure-pitfall is to get stuck in your e-mail. We have a to-do-list and perhaps we even transferred it into the latest app someone recommended to us, but when we arrive at work in the morning and ...

I am sure that you have heard that you will be able to focus more easily if ...

When you have developed a well-functioning structure to lean on in your work, your working-methods will have gotten rather refined. You sort and categorize, put things in folders and assign tags. You label, group and organize. This helps you to ...

Do really every participant attend the entire meeting? Often not, apparently. Magnus, a participant at one of my seminars recently, told me about ...

When you have so much papers and stuff surrounding you in your office (or on and by your desk if you are seated in an open office landscape) that you spend more time than you would prefer ...

You cannot just work, work, work, work all the time. You need breaks as well to rest and recover. The question is ...

In order to progress in a project or with a more extensive task, we make sure to always have a next step clearly defined. It might sound obvious. But do we always adhere to this simple rule? This is particularly useful ...