LifeHQ
Do your best work and become your best self
Starting a series of guides on applying the most popular productivity and self-improvement tools in real life.
First guide is about the 7 habits of highly effective people. This is the book that got me started on this journey of ultimate productivity and improving myself in every way.
In this update I'm adding Kanban boards, gave the UI a facelift and made project deadlines optional.
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Kanban boards were long requested feature as being so simple to use and the best at giving you a general overview of the state of your projects. You can now access them in Projects' todo lists.
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UI facelift
Made the navbar minimalist and updated the colors on the background. It's important for me to have welcoming colors so I finally decided on this beige-brown faded color. I'm missing the dark theme so that is schedule for the next few weeks. -
Optional project deadlines
A lot of projects have no deadlines in sight. Especially when starting something new and exciting we've never done before. So I made project deadlines optional.
Sharing my top productivity techniques that give me 80 percent of my productivity gains.
- Having a daily master list, with tasks split into priorities
- Using Pomodoro cycles correctly
- Journalling for productivity - Strategic and proactive recording and reviewing
And the app hint hint that supports all of these.
After few weeks of work I finally deployed the new time tracker feature on LifeHq.
Now you can:
- Track the time spent per task and per project
- Set a time target you want to hit per project per day, week or month
- Review how much time you spent working this week.
Current metrics:
Total signups: 221
Paying users: 3
Email list: 329
Twitter followers: 79
Every day I plan to do one or more of the following actions:
Post on Twitter
Write on my blog
Participate on Reddit, IH, PH or HackerNews.
Send direct messages to potential customers.
Answer on Quora
Launched Habit tracker v2 and where you can set up your habits with a custom schedule instead of repeating them every day.
Also plans for the future like adding gamification and social components like having a scoreboard of the tasks completed that day. Comparing yourself to others and pushing your productivity even further.
Sharing what happened during my initial launch, what I'm doing afterwards. Defining and enjoying the daily tasks (Grind), loving the process and celebrating small wins
Planning takes a lot of willpower, so do it once per week.
Today I launched the LifeHQ Week Planner.
It lets you plan the important tasks for the whole week in advance.
Did you notice how I said plan the "important" tasks for the week. No one can predict everything that has to get done in a week. There are urgent and optional tasks that will come up every day.
But the important tasks, the ones that move the needle in your business, side-project or life in general, we all know what does are, that's what the Week planner is for.
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Nice. Who do you think this would be perfect for?
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This is for everyone that has multiple things going on. Especially solopreneurs, freelancers. People running a side-projects but also working on projects that pay the bills.
It is easy to fall off track with your side project, especially when you have just a few hours per day to work on it.
During the work week, when everything is going on, it is much easier to have a clear path for what must get done that day. You don't have time to decide and compare the priority of tasks etc, you trust that you have planned correctly and during the work week you just execute.
The next weekend re-evaluate again.
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LifeHQ is officially launched and open for business. The first dozen users get free consultations with me on Productivity, Organization and Working like a ninja in a world full of distractions.
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