The system that knowledge workers use for deep concentration

Automatic Scheduling

Are you a visual thinker? Go beyond working from a list, start thinking in terms of maps of time. Stop trying to figure out what to do next after each conflict, rescheduling, interruption, or changing priority. Let the computer give you a suggested path. It's like a car GPS for your schedule.

How does Automatic Scheduling work?

Projects

Have your Next Actions automatically lined up for you with the industry's most flexible prioritization methods.

Reduce hesitation. When you put everything you want to do in a system and then compare between them, becoming decisive is easy.

Focus Cycle

Have the confidence to really get deep with what you are working on, knowing that you will be warned if your actions begin to create conflicts with your schedule.

How does this help my concentration?

Metrics

Keep yourself rooted throughout the day on what is most important to you. Get consistent results and push yourself towards a higher new productivity every week.

Imagine trying to train for a marathon without measuring how far you run each day. By running until you get tired and don't feel like running anymore, you will fall into a plateau. However, with a plan that increases the length slightly each week, your continous improvement is ensured.

What is knowledge work?

Imagine that you are wandering along the shores of a deserted island. As you wander the beaches you come across a mysterious relic lying on the sand. You pick it up and examine it. It looks like a part of some ancient Greek machinery, or like a lost piece to some important Mayan invention.

You begin to find others in the shallow water, disguised as baby coral. The rocks that made up the scenery as you walked now jump out at you like your name being called on a busy noisy street. With so many collected, you begin laying them out in the sand. You become more and more consumed by the intrigue of what they could be for.

Soon there are no other pieces left except those lost along the sea bottom past the coral reefs. They are pretty far down in the water and it takes a little struggle to reach one. And yet, since you have so many, you quickly find where each new piece fits in with the many others. Each piece is becoming more and more profound, taking you closer towards a sensation of discovery. Stirring an excitement within you as you feel how much closer you are towards figuring out what it is.

Now there are no longer any easy locations for finding more, the area has become familiar and empty. You must go out further and further past the coral reefs, where the search expeditions are now deep dives to the mysterious sea floors. They are just within your reach if you really take a deep breath and quickly swim towards the bottom. You find yourself completely focused on encountering another piece along the ocean floor.

The dives become long hypnotic blurs into some other state of mind that quickly concentrate themselves into instances of exhilaration when you look back at them. That heavy state of mind you welcome that only comes when you are stretching yourself to the edges of your ability.

You find that it takes everything out of you, and yet all you want to do now is to experience that calm excitement that grows as you smoothly descend into the depths, into the mystery. Sinking into the clarity of a quiet mind. To the point where all you’re left with is being faced with your mission.

That is what knowledge work is like, ideas are like lost pieces that connect with each other. You need to set yourself up for finding the right places to dive for them. You need to train yourself to improve how deep you can go at once. You need to stay concentrated and focused on the dive. It is much more than just putting in the hours. You will always need to go further and further out there to discover more. Finding the right idea can change your life, change the world.