planning methods

Annual planning helps you achieve big goals that can’t be tackled in a few weeks. Learn how to build your yearly plan, avoid common pitfalls, and use the right tools for long-term planning success.

When you learn what the most expensive productivity advice in history cost, you’ll want to know both the advice itself and how to give advice that valuable.

The Eisenhower Matrix is a prioritization method that evaluates tasks on two criteria: importance and urgency. Tasks are sorted into a simple four-quadrant grid based on these criteria.

GTD (Getting Things Done) is David Allen’s task management methodology — the system that inspired Building a Second Brain, Bullet Journaling, and countless other planning frameworks. In this article, we’ll show you how to conquer inbox chaos, walk you through the 5-question task processing algorithm, explain how to actually use your Someday list, and share tips so your system doesn’t fall apart after a month.