How to Jump-Start Your Day by Setting Up A Morning Routine With Apps, Widgets, and Shortcuts on Your iPad

Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve used a morning routine based on my iPad for over two years. In March 2022, I wrote a blog post, A Morning Routine that Works – An App-Based Approach. My iPad has a custom Home Page containing all the widgets, apps, and shortcuts I need to perform my morning routine. Since I wrote that …

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How to Create an App-Based Morning Routine That Will Jump-Start Your Productive Day

Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve been using an app-based morning routine for over a year now. I start out every day sitting comfortably on my living room sofa with my iPad Pro and a cup of coffee. Everything that I do in my morning routine is waiting for me in one place — the apps on my iPad. I’ve …

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Morning Readings for Thoughts, Inspiration and Practical Life Advice

Reading Time: 6 minutes Garbage in, Garbage Out 2,000 years ago Marcus Aurelius wrote, “‘The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” Henry Todd, writing in the Daily Creative, tied this concept into the creative process: “There are few things that affect your creative process more than …

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Why I Switched From Day One to Craft For Journaling

Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently I began using the Daily Note feature in Craft as my journaling app instead of Day One, which I’d been using for several years. Craft had all the features that I was using in Day One, and had some additional benefits that made it worthwhile for me to switch apps. Benefits to Journaling in …

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The Tools of My Roles-Based Personal Productivity System; the How

Reading Time: 7 minutes Once you determine your Why, you can focus on implementing a productivity system. There are many tools available, both digital and analog, that can help you to implement and keep up with your productivity system. The tools you use are not the solution, they are merely tools that help you to do what you’ve determined is important for you to do.