Productivity Toolbox: 55 Essential Tips & Tricks

Improving our productivity and efficiency is the holy grail of most business owners. We all want to do more with less time and become better at what we do. However with so many areas to focus on within our work, it’s essential that we consistently improve our day to day productivity.

I chose this week’s theme of Productivity because it’s an area i have been focusing on myself recently within my own business.

The multitude of applications, shortcuts, tips, tricks and tutorials listed below should help you find a way to boost your productivity in whatever field you work in.

For Creatives

• Ten Productivity Tips For Being a More Effective Web Designer
• Productivity Tools for Efficient Designers to Automate Design Process
• Simple Adjustments That Will Dramatically Increase Your Productivity
• Productivity Tools For Creative Minds
• The Ultimate Productivity Toolbox for Creative People
• 30 Productivity Tips for Designers

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For Freelancers

• 46 Must-Read Productivity Tips for Freelancers
• 7 Productivity Tips, Plus Tools for Freelancers and Web Workers
• 10 Tips For Freelancers to Stay Motivated, Sane and Productive

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For Writers

• 10 Effective Productivity Tips for Writers
• Seven Steps for Becoming a More Productive Writer

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For Developers

• Top 10 Tools and Productivity Tips for the Solo Developer
• Developer’s Alarm: 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity
• Maximising Development Productivity
• 10 ways to increase your web development productivity

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Blogs and Bloggers

• Productivity Tools for Bloggers
• 10 Simple Productivity Tips for Bloggers
• 18 Tips to Become a Productive Blogger
• The Top 50 Productivity Blogs (most of which you haven’t heard about)

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Tips and Toolboxes

• 13 Effective Time Management and Productivity Tips For Web Workers
• Big List of Online Productivity Tools
• 131 Productivity Boosters for Email, Instant Messaging and More
• 400+ Productivity Resources To Make You Smarter and Faster
• PRODUCTIVITY 2.0: 171 ways to improve task & project management
• Productivity Toolbox: 37+ Tools for Taking Action
• Top 10 Distraction Stoppers To Help Become More Productive
• Utilizing “Binge” Productivity
• Full-throttle Productivity and Web-Work With Ubuntu
• 33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity
• Maximize Productivity Without Burning Out
• 10 Productivity Tips That Work Surprisingly Well
• Seven Productivity Tips For People That Hate GTD
• 100 All-Time Best Productivity Tips for Working & Learning from Home
• 5 Photoshop Shortcuts/Tricks To Boost Productivity
• Top 10 Ways to Stay Productive
• How to Manage Your Work Tasks To Stay Productive
• 10 Easy Ways to Increase Productivity
• Productivity versus Creativity
• 7 Instant Productivity Tips
• A Computer Geek’s Smart Productivity Guide

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iPhone and Mobiles

• 7 Productivity-Boosting iPhone Tricks
• 100 Productivity Tips for Your iPhone
• 45+ Mobile Productivity Resources

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Applications

• 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity
• 100 Awesome Adobe AIR Apps for Productivity
• 15 iGoogle Gadgets for Web Worker Productivity
• Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity
• How to make Gmail your Ultimate Productivity Centre
• 22 Firefox Extensions to turn Gmail into a Powerhouse of Productivity
• 18 Key Firefox Extensions That Improve Online Productivity
• Top 10 Mac Productivity Applications For Developers!
• Top 25 Web 2.0 Apps to Improve a Student’s or Professor’s Productivity
• 25+ Productivity Modules For iGoogle
• Photoshop Secret Shortcuts For Ultimate Productivity
• 8 quick Photoshop tips to improve productivity

Were there any of your favourite Productivity related resources that didn’t make the list? Then leave a comment with a link so we can check them out.

See you at the next Theme Thursday on 30th July.

Photo by CarbonNYC

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