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Struggling with time management at work? Learn how to create a great plan and track your time with our helpful tips and tricks for 2023.

10 Best Time Management Tips for Work in 2023

Are you struggling to stay organized and productive? Our custom Excel sheets for time tracking will help you streamline your work and save valuable time.

Efficient Time Tracking: Custom Excel Sheets for Maximum Productivity

Tech stacks can drain resources, but Timely offers insights into workday efficiency, reducing time waste for improved business forecasts.

5 misconceptions, a large tech stack that are draining your profits

Unlock your potential with a weekly work plan. Learn how planning can help you achieve success and get ahead of your goals.

The Power of Planning: Why a Weekly Work Plan is Key to Success

Discover the power of the Eisenhower Matrix and how it can help you achieve success. Learn simple tips to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively.

Eisenhower Matrix Magic: Achieving Success with These Simple Hacks

Work overload impacts individual employees and teams in equal measure. Learn how to restore balance to your overloaded employees.

Work overload: What it is and how to avoid it on your team

Mind maps are an amazing way to brainstorm, take notes, create plans and much more. Find out what a mind map is and how to easily create one yourself.

Mind mapping: What it is and how to do it

When you protect your energy at work, you're able to do your job in a way that's healthy, rewarding and sustainable. Here's how to make it happen.

How to protect your energy at work: 5 practical strategies

Do you want to maximize your time efficiency to complete tasks faster and focus on long-term goals? A few simple steps can get you started.

How to maximize your time efficiency

What is intrinsic motivation and why is it integral to business? This guide covers everything you need to know about how people are driven by internal rewards.

Intrinsic motivation: Harness your employees’ inner drive

ADHD productivity can be a constant struggle. Here are some of the best tools to help people with ADHD get more done at work.

8 must-have ADHD productivity tools & apps

From calendar apps to time trackers and everything in between, these are our favorite time management apps to help your team get their best work done.

The best time management apps to boost your team’s productivity

A weekly review can help you boost efficiency, learn from mistakes and plan for the coming week. Here’s how to do it right.

The weekly review: What it is & how to do one

Sunk cost fallacy costs businesses many wasted hours and opportunities every year. Find out what this phenomenon is, how it happens and how you can prevent it.

Sunk cost fallacy: The ultimate guide

Everything you need to know about deep work -- covering what deep work means, what deep work does for productivity and how to do it.

Deep work: A complete guide

Looking for task management software for your team? Here’s a roundup of the best task management apps including Proofhub, Todoist, Chanty and more.

The 22 best task management software for team collaboration

Struggling with time anxiety at work? You’re not alone. Here’s how to combat time anxiety and keep it from dominating your life and mental well-being.

What is time anxiety? 7 tips to overcome your worries about time

Managing projects is sweat-inducing work – we get it. Maybe you just need the right timeline app to help your team stay on top of things.

8 timeline apps and their best features (free and paid)

Context switching is something almost all of us struggle with. Here are some concrete strategies you can use to bring focus back to your workday.

The true cost of context switching (and how to reclaim your focus)

Don't let your project get off track. Learn how to create a project timeline that will help you manage your resources and achieve your goals.

From Concept to Completion: How to Build a Project Timeline

Percentages of time and money now available in donut reports, the ability to pin frequently-used reports, and more.

What’s new: A summer glow-up for Timely reports ✨

Save time and be more productive with these tips on the best ways to take, organize and share your meeting notes.

How to take effective meeting notes: The ultimate guide

Learn how to prioritize tasks like a pro and get more done in less time. Discover effective strategies and techniques to help you tackle your to-do list.

Prioritizing Like a Pro: How to Tackle To-Do's and Get Things Done

Learn what the two-minute rule is and how you can use it to stop procrastinating – once and for all.

The two-minute rule: What it is and how it works

An in-depth guide to time blocking, a time management method that helps you plan your day and be more productive.

Time blocking: What it is and how to do it

This guide will give you an overview of what Getting Things Done is, why it’s so effective and how you can use it to be more productive at work.

Getting Things Done (GTD): What it is and how it works

Improve your project management game with KPIs that matter. From budget and timeline to quality and performance, we cover the metrics you need to succeed.

The Guide to Project Management KPIs: Metrics that Matter

Learn everything you need to know about Eat the Frog, why it’s effective, and how you can use it to tackle your most important tasks.

Eat the Frog productivity method: What it is and how it works

Timely was recognized in the G2 Summer 2022 report and awarded badges for usability, business results and more!

Summer ’22 brings more G2 awards to Timely 🥳☀️

Why Pomodoro technique is so effective and how can you use it to better manage your time, boost your productivity and stay focused.

The Pomodoro technique: What it is and how it works

Creating a project task list can help you organize, prioritize and plan your project effectively. Here’s our quick and easy guide.

How to create a project task list (step-by-step guide)

Your step-by-step guide to running a time audit so you can better understand where your time goes at work. (Plus, a free template!)

How to do a time audit (step-by-step guide)

If your to-do list looks daunting, consider trying time mapping to gain control over your calendar and hectic work day.

The complete guide to time mapping (+ template) ⏱️ 🗺️

See our roundup of the best time blocking apps currently available, whether you’re time blocking alone, as a team, at work or in your personal life.

11 of the best time-blocking apps [updated for 2022]

14 must-have Google Calendar extensions (tried & tested)

Calling all admins! We've made an update to help you more easily track the financial performance of your projects, right from conception through to completion.

What’s new: Set cost rates on project work

The Flowtime technique is a productivity method used to help people accomplish high-value, difficult tasks. Here’s how to test it out for yourself.

The Flowtime technique: A complete guide

Very Good Ventures, an app consultancy, talks about why time tracking with Timely is the bloodline of their company and how it helps them run the business.

How a growing app consultancy keeps work connected to business goals

The phenomenon of social loafing can affect all teams – especially when they’re remote – so what steps can we take to prevent it?

Social loafing: What is it, and how can you prevent it on your team?

Memory rules have arrived, idle time detection just got better, new upcoming task notifications and more in our March 2022 Timely product update.

What’s new: Set Memory rules, idle time detection, task reminders

Time blocking can be a great way to improve productivity, but that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. Here are some alternatives to try instead.

Why time blocking isn’t working for you (and what to try instead)

Your step-by-step guide to instilling effective cross-functional collaboration in your own organization.

Cross-functional collaboration: What it is & how to improve it

In the world of business, the importance of improving employee performance is something that can’t be minimized. Try these tips to improve performance.

9 proactive ways you can improve employee performance

Hybrid work offers many benefits, but inevitably comes with its own set of challenges. Here’s what they are and how to fix them before they become an issue.

The 3 biggest challenges of hybrid working (and how to overcome them)

What’s new: Automatically track your time working in Chrome

Improve your time management skills with these 6 habits of effective time managers. Discover the strategies that successful people use.

The 6 Habits of Effective Time Managers: Strategies for Success

The hybrid model promises to give us the best of office and remote worlds. But how can we be sure hybrid work is actually good for our work-life balance?

Is hybrid work good for work-life balance?

Uncertainty is seen as overwhelmingly negative, but it can sometimes be a good thing. Here’s how the motivating-uncertainty effect can push our performance.

Motivating-uncertainty effect: can uncertainty ever be good?

New profitability controls, keyboard shortcuts, Tasks tweaks, and timesheet optimizations—January has been wild! Check out the fresh goodies for 2022.

Historic rates, Tasks tweaks and new awards

Virtual communication can feel dry, transactional, and lonely. Here’s how to make asynchronous work feel more human.

Making asynchronous work feel more human

Drowning in never-ending to-do lists? Start prioritizing tasks with the 1-3-5 rule to keep long- and short-term goals on track.

Prioritizing tasks with the 1-3-5 rule

Ranked as one of the most effective productivity hacks, timeboxing can help you use time more efficiently and intentionally. Here’s how to get started.

Timeboxing: what it is, how to do it

Paid time off policies has always been a core expression of company culture. It’s time to question whether yours is still relevant.

Is your paid time off policy still relevant?

Finding it impossible to stay on top of your schedule? Try using a to-do list planning tool. Here are a few of the best for teams and individuals.

Best-in-class to-do list planning tools

Meetings are often a colossal waste of time and money. But is banning meetings outright the answer?

Are meeting bans counterproductive?

Thousands of businesses are developing long-term hybrid policies, but few are clear on whether the hybrid work model is actually sustainable.

Is the hybrid work model sustainable?

We’ve all heard of burnout—but have you ever experienced boreout? If you’re feeling overwhelmed or emotionally drained at work, have a quick read.

Boreout at work: what it is, how to deal with it

From managing profitability and customizing projects to creating project timelines and understanding team capacity, there’s a little something for everybody.

Task timelines, profitability, planning and more!

Drowning in the constantly shifting tide of tasks and deadlines? Timely can help—here’s how to keep track of tasks at work with minimal effort.

How to keep track of tasks at work with Timely

Microsoft fans have a ton of productivity apps to choose from—start your research by checking out these best-in-class productivity apps for Windows.

The best productivity apps for Windows

Feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list? Here’s how to get started with task planning—from practical steps to the tools that make it a doddle.

Task planning: how to action your to-do list

Developing a robust hybrid work policy should be a top priority for every business. Here’s how to make sure yours actually lands.

How to land your hybrid work policy

There’s an abundance of tools available to simplify everyday resource capacity planning. Here’s our rundown of the best options for every team size.

Resource capacity planning: the best tools by team size

Looking for a new approach to agile project management? Look no further than the Moscow Method - a system that maximizes efficiency and delivers results.

The Moscow Method: A Novel Approach to Agile Project Management

Time scarcity is often experienced negatively—but it can actually be a source of agency. Here’s how to hack it to get more from your time and performance.

Time scarcity: what it is, how to hack it

Meet Tasks—the first installment of advanced planning powers in Timely. We've also found time to make major improvements to visuals, performance, and more.

Meet Tasks—step one of advanced planning

Of all the challenges posed by hybrid working, navigating communication is arguably the hardest. Here’s the best way to hold a hybrid meeting that works.

What’s the best way to hold a hybrid meeting?

The best task management apps help you stay on top of all of your commitments and visualize progress as priorities change. Here’s our best picks.

The best task management app: personal vs professional use

We’ve just landed $14 million in funding! This simply could not have happened without your ongoing support, feedback, and faith. Thank you!

$14 million in funding and new awards!

About to adopt a hybrid way of working? Here’s what you need to know to craft your ideal hybrid work schedule and ensure you’re maximizing the benefits of a remote work/in-office duality.

How to craft your ideal hybrid work schedule

Psychological safety is key to improving team engagement, productivity, retention, and happiness. Here’s how to nurture it in a hybrid workplace.

How does psychological safety work in a hybrid workplace?

Stop wasting time and start achieving your goals with the ultimate time management planner. Discover how this planner can help you stay organized.

Plan Your Time, Plan Your Work: The Ultimate Time Management Planner

Creating a sustainable, equitable, and productive hybrid remote schedule is hard. Here’s everything you need to know to create a hybrid remote schedule.

Hybrid remote schedule: four models for coordinating your team

Take routine billing to a whole new level with these best-in-class QuickBooks integrations for efficient, accurate accounting.

The best QuickBooks integrations for simple, accurate accounting

Budgeting your time can help you find space for everything you want to do each day. Here’s a guide to setting time budgets to make your 24 hours work harder.

The power of time budgets – for work and play

Among Elon Musk’s many productivity hacks is day theming. But what actually is day theming? How does it work? And how could it benefit you?

Day theming: what it is, how it works

Connect Timely with QuickBooks for accurate, effortless invoicing. As our most-requested feature, we can’t wait to hear what you make of it!

Timely + QuickBooks: streamline your invoicing!

Good law firm software saves time and maximizes profits. Here are just six tools for running a smarter practice – from automating time tracking to streamlining case management.

Law firm software: 6 tools for running a smarter practice

Poor time management can be a real time drain. Learn how to identify and overcome it with our expert tips. Don't let time hold you back!

The Time Drain: How Poor Time Management is Holding You Back

Forget spreadsheets and manual timers, you can track billable hours automatically. Discover the shortcut to accurate, low-effort billable reporting.

How to track billable hours automatically with Timely

Visualizing where your time goes can help you reframe how you want to use it. Here are a few useful time management charts to keep you in control.

Time management charts: ideas and tools for visualizing your day

We’ve picked our top time management books to provide you with a framework to stay focused, manage time better and get more done.

Top 5 time management books and their core concepts

Zapier integration, tag customization and UI magic

If you don’t understand your utilization rate, you can’t understand efficiency, productivity, and profitability. But how do you calculate the utilization rate?

Utilization rate: what it is, how to calculate it accurately

Hybrid work requires a completely new approach to work culture. It isn’t quite office culture, it isn’t quite remote culture – so what is hybrid work culture?

How to build a strong hybrid work culture

You can now customize tag settings across all of your projects, ensuring people log project work using the right tags with minimal tag management and admin.

Project tags, memories and report optimizations

How can we unpack individual sentiments across our teams? How exactly can we measure the remote employee experience?

How to measure the remote employee experience

We scooped up 13 awards from G2's Winter 2021 time tracking report, most notably winning coveted “Leader” status among the 114 time tracking software on G2.

Celebrating 2021 with new Timely awards! 🤗

If you’re looking to build a more efficient and effective workflow, here are unproductive daily tasks you can automate right now.

6 unproductive tasks you can automate right now

We’ve got a few goodies to squeeze into the end of the year. You can now share live reports with clients so they always see the latest data on your projects.

Live reports, archived tags, team donuts and more!

The global pandemic disrupted the routines of millions, forcing employees to adjust routines and ways of working overnight. On the flipside, it also created a space for exploring how to structure work in more meaningful ways. So what exactly did the pandemic teach us about time management?

What can a global pandemic teach us about time management?

Here are a few highlights of what we managed to do in 2020 here at Timely, along with insights on where time actually went.

Timely 2020: our year in review

As managers move to make remote work a long-term fixture, it’s essential to recognize where people usually go wrong with remote team management.

Where people go wrong with remote team management

We’ve broken down the five main agency pricing models – explaining what they are, what situations they benefit and what to consider before using them.

The 5 main agency pricing models explained

Most employees working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic have been overworking. Here's how we can avoid overworking while working remotely.

How to avoid overworking as a remote worker

A trait called “intellectual courage” can make the difference between team success and failure. But what does it look like? And why should you do it?

How to build intellectual courage at work

Tracking team capacity is crucial for managing employee wellbeing and performance, as well as delivering projects on time. But what’s the best way to do it?

How to track and manage team capacity

Efficiently track employee hours with the latest technology. Discover how automated time tracking can streamline workforce management.

Employee Time Tracking for the Future of Workforce Management

While many companies have adjusted to the idea of remote work, few have considered the infrastructure required to sustain it. Check out seven best practices.

7 best practices for managing remote workers

At a time when our work and lives have never been more digital, what tools can workers and their employers use to support remote employee wellbeing?

6 tools that support remote employee wellbeing