Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

On Point recently did a show talking about the results of scientific studies of multitaskers. If you frequently multitask you need to listen to this show. Here are some of the highlights:

Scientists assumed that people who multitasked often would get better at it. In fact, they got worse.
The less often you multitask, [...]

Is Multitasking Efficient? Turns out the answer is a resounding no. Check out these 6 reasons you should monotask (focus on a single task) rather than multitask.

Multitasking Is A Lie. Cognitive scientists have confirmed it: multitasking is a myth. According to researchers, the brain is not engineered in a way that [...]

Spirited Away is a free program that will autohide your inactive applications. If you haven’t used a program for a predetermined number of minutes, spirited away will hide the program — the icon will still be in the dock, but when you use expose, it won’t show up. I’m a big fan of [...]