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Bob T. Monkey researches colors

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Choose tag colors by mood

Whether you’re viewing your tags in the left navigation bar or in the task list, adding some color can really help. This week, dougbrown77 suggests tying your tag colors to emotions so you can enjoy looking at your tasks all the more. 😊 I have started adjusting tag colors to

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Bob T. Monkey prepares for some more active tasks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting some productive movement in your day

Staying active regularly is very helpful for your energy throughout the day. So is keeping up with quick tasks. Cue evan.fredericks’s novel tip: tagging tasks so you can do them when you get up or move around for a quick break. Whenever I try to set up a

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Bob T. Monkey works on his Bullet Journal

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bullet Journaling alongside your daily tasks

Your day-to-day routine with your tasks can have a large bearing on your productivity, so being mindful is important. In this week’s tip, macness suggests “bringing in reinforcements” by using the Bullet Journal method alongside one’s Remember The Milk tasks. I’ve been using RTM for a long

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Bob T. Monkey shows a reminder to log food

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Build habits throughout your day with subtasks

Repeating tasks are helpful for building habits in your life. Today’s tip, shared by dtreusch, adds an interesting twist: using subtasks throughout the day to help cement the habit. I have some tasks that I want to remind myself to do multiple times per day and then I want

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Bob T. Monkey checks his watch

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organizing your tasks in blocks of time

Organizing your tasks can be a complicated balance: one way and you don’t have things in place, and the other way and things are incredibly fussy. This week’s tip comes from cek1227, who lays out a thorough way to organize your tasks around blocks of time with streamlined

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Bob T. Monkey looks at his calendar

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A simple daily journal

Journaling can be a great way to reflect on your day—week, month, and year too!—but as with anything it can feel daunting as well. This week’s tip, shared by quietmind, suggests a quick daily journal task alongside the rest of your tasks so you can keep a

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Bob T. Monkey prepares to move house

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tasks for each stage of moving house

When moving house, there can be a lot to do—before, during, and after the move. This week’s tip, shared by mmoore100, suggests keeping separate lists to have everything ready to do right when you need it. For moving, I have MovePrep, a MoveActual, and MovePost lists. I also

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Bob T. Monkey packs for a trip

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dynamic packing lists with tags and Smart Lists

Packing lists are a great way to make sure you don’t forget anything on your travels. This week, we share a particularly neat way to generate those: evan.fredericks shares some Smart Lists for keeping a master list and then automatically generating packing lists for specific types of trips

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Bob T. Monkey with a star emoji shirt

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Starring tasks with a special tag

Having tasks ready to go can help when you’re keeping things moving during your day. In this week’s tip, dominic.spachmann shows a way to mark these – with a nice visual indicator too! I found this idea useful to get a short list of tasks to be picked

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