Definitive 100 Most Useful Productivity Hacks

We could all be more productive. Between the daily deluge of digital distractions and our own bad habits and human fallibility, there is probably room for improvement somewhere.

With endless articles online offering productivity advice, how to separate the wheat from the chaff? We brought some method to the madness. We scoured hundreds of articles online and found the top 100 most frequently cited tips. We then ranked them using their overall score on the below stats.

The result? The definitive top 100 productivity hacks. Which ones work for you?

Definitive 100 Most Useful Productivity Hacks

1. Time-boxing
2. Prioritise
3. Say no
4. Move!
5. Control your devices
6. Take short breaks
7. To-do lists
8. Eat well
9. 2-minute rule
10. Control social media
11. Choose when to check your email
12. Organize your workspace
13. Start earlier
14. Breathe
15. Turn off alerts
16. Shorter meetings
17. Site blockers
18. Productivity tools
19. Plan ahead
20. Single-tasking
21. Write it down
22. Break tasks down
23. 8020 rule
24. Be true to yourself
25. Avoid visual distractions
26. Sleep
27. Run meetings well
28. Batch similar tasks
29. Fewer meetings
30. Focus on outcomes
31. Effective above efficient
32. Delegate
33. Ignore the news
34. Change the scenery
35. Long breaks
36. Time yourself
37. Be positive
38. Follow up after meetings
39. One small change
40. Flow
41. Drink water
42. Drink coffee responsibly
43. Make a public commitment
44. Acknowledge your success
45. Don’t reread emails
46. Help others in meetings
47. Be on time
48. Kill your darlings
49. Work from home
50. Productive procrastination
51. Your biological prime time
52. Find time for yourself
53. Be realistic
54. Set clear goals
55. Just start
56. Devices in Meetings
57. Break bad habits
58. Love your job
59. Show compassion
60. Focus on the present
61. Systemise
62. Start and end on time
63. Get ergonomic
64. Use your commute
65. Unplug
66. Meeting roles
67. Do not do to-do lists
68. 10,000 hours
69. Find lost hours
70. Short- and long-term goals
71. Visualise success
72. Reward yourself
73. Rituals
74. Eric Schmidt’s “9 Rules of Email”
75. Be flexible
76. Log all your ideas
77. Take control when you can
78. Make work fun again
79. Natural light
80. Learn to touch type properly
81. Listen actively
82. Inbox Zero
83. Voicemail
84. Templates
85. Hard stuff first
86. Close open loops in your head
87. Waiting-on list
88. Deprioritize the non-essential
89. Reply by…
90. Control your inbox
91. Wear a uniform
92. Set deadlines
93. Assign a ‘Task Deputy’
94. Password manager
95. Schedule “stress” time
96. Five goals
97. Convert emails to to-dos
98. Old-school alarm clocks
99. Chewing gum

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