
We take work wherever we live and life to where we work. Checking email on vacation has become as common as browsing through Facebook while you’re on the boss’s clock. Whether you like it or not, work and life are integrating.
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Over the past years, we’ve quietly worked on Lifeline, a new Saent application for macOS. The app is now available on the macOS App Store.
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Most productivity and time-management methodologies help us deal with information overload. How to organize data, which tasks to prioritize, what to work on next, projects to delegate to others, and so on.
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Imagine this: you’re headed for the supermarket to buy groceries. You plan to spend $25 on a bunch of tomatoes, fresh juice, a bottle of wine, and half a loaf of bread.
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Find calm, do great work, and live a fulfilling life. That’s what Saent is all about. Our newest product—a desktop application for macOS called Saent Lifeline—helps you achieve these goals.
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An important component of our macOS application Lifeline is taking sufficient breaks, and in this article, I’ll explain why.
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A war for your attention is going on. Some suggest to solve this problem with… technology!
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Many productivity experts recommend planning your next day the evening before. It allows you to “hit the ground running.” For me this doesn’t work.
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If you’re experiencing issues logging in to the Saent desktop app on Windows, you can download the below update.
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Here’s (finally) a new update on the status of Saent. There’s some good news and some bad news, so let’s get the bad out of the way first.
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Some users are experiencing a server error when trying to login to the Saent desktop software. It’s caused by an expired and invalid SSL certificate which we’ve been unable to restore over the past weeks.
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A productivity checklist helps plan your day, so you don't forget about routine but essential activities. This post includes a free template and video explainer.
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Smartphones are pocket-sized computers that allow us to do things that would have seemed like magic just ten years ago.
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There’s a new form of obesity — one caused by digital junk food. We’re online all the time. We fragment our attention between a million things.
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Picking up a book allows you to connect directly with a great mind (assuming you’re reading a good book, that is). But most of us don’t read all that many books.
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We’re still working in a manner designed for factories at the turn of the 19th century, even as digital technology has completely changed the nature of the work we do.
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Working from home, a coffee shop, or even a remote tropical island all sound fantastic. Combined with the entrepreneurial dream of owning your own business it might even be heaven. But here’s what building a remote company is really like.
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I often get asked, "what is your number one productivity tip?" The answer is "consistency." This article explores why and how to implement consistency in your life.
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One of the most active Slack channels at Saent is our #reading room, where we share articles, books, and other media we come across each day.
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Breaks are important for a number of reasons, and not taking them can lead to stress, burnout, poor productivity, and poor work quality.
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We announced Saent’s first conversational user interface in a blog post in January 2016. Now almost a full year later, we’ve gone through several iterations on that initial design and learned a lot along the way.
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Author William Powers makes a convincing call to disconnect from our devices and the internet more often in his 2010 book “Hamlet’s Blackberry.”
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In parts I and II of this series on “The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge” we covered the why and the how. But now that you have that half hour of uninterrupted time per day, what can you do with it?
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One of the best ways to combat the modern issues of information overload, work stress, burnout, and poor work-life balance is through effective behavior change.
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How can you carve out half an hour of completely uninterrupted time when you’re under constant attack from notifications, social media, and email?
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