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Living with work-life integration
December 31, 2019

We take work wherever we live and life to where we work. Checking email on vacation has become as common as browsing through Facebook while you’re on the boss’s clock. Whether you like it or not, work and life are integrating.

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Build a Better Daily Work Rhythm With Saent Lifeline
May 4, 2019

Over the past years, we’ve quietly worked on Lifeline, a new Saent application for macOS. The app is now available on the macOS App Store.

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The Virtuous Circle of Saent
April 28, 2019

Most productivity and time-management methodologies help us deal with information overload. How to organize data, which tasks to prioritize, what to work on next, projects to delegate to others, and so on.

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Why You Absolutely Need To Time Your Work (Even When You’re Not a Lawyer)
December 23, 2018

Imagine this: you’re headed for the supermarket to buy groceries. You plan to spend $25 on a bunch of tomatoes, fresh juice, a bottle of wine, and half a loaf of bread.

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The Five Principles of Saent Lifeline
November 2, 2018

Find calm, do great work, and live a fulfilling life. That’s what Saent is all about. Our newest product—a desktop application for macOS called Saent Lifeline—helps you achieve these goals.

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The Magic Power of Breaks: Work Less and Get More Done
June 16, 2018

An important component of our macOS application Lifeline is taking sufficient breaks, and in this article, I’ll explain why.

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Solving Tech’s Problems With... More Tech?!
May 26, 2018

A war for your attention is going on. Some suggest to solve this problem with… technology!

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The Case Against Scheduling in The Evening
May 20, 2018

Many productivity experts recommend planning your next day the evening before. It allows you to “hit the ground running.” For me this doesn’t work.

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Technical update: Fix for login issue on Windows (beta release)
May 19, 2018

If you’re experiencing issues logging in to the Saent desktop app on Windows, you can download the below update.

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Saent Status Update - May 2018
May 14, 2018

Here’s (finally) a new update on the status of Saent. There’s some good news and some bad news, so let’s get the bad out of the way first.

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Technical update: Saent desktop software server error
May 7, 2018

Some users are experiencing a server error when trying to login to the Saent desktop software. It’s caused by an expired and invalid SSL certificate which we’ve been unable to restore over the past weeks.

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A productivity checklist to manage your daily work (includes template)
March 30, 2017

A productivity checklist helps plan your day, so you don't forget about routine but essential activities. This post includes a free template and video explainer.

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We need a break from our phones
February 23, 2017

Smartphones are pocket-sized computers that allow us to do things that would have seemed like magic just ten years ago.

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The Digital Diet Plan
January 31, 2017

There’s a new form of obesity — one caused by digital junk food. We’re online all the time. We fragment our attention between a million things.

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How to read more, today
January 23, 2017

Picking up a book allows you to connect directly with a great mind (assuming you’re reading a good book, that is). But most of us don’t read all that many books.

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The way we're working is broken, but we can fix it
January 16, 2017

We’re still working in a manner designed for factories at the turn of the 19th century, even as digital technology has completely changed the nature of the work we do.

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Why Saent is a remote company
January 9, 2017

Working from home, a coffee shop, or even a remote tropical island all sound fantastic. Combined with the entrepreneurial dream of owning your own business it might even be heaven. But here’s what building a remote company is really like.

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Consistency is the key to lasting behavior change
January 2, 2017

I often get asked, "what is your number one productivity tip?" The answer is "consistency." This article explores why and how to implement consistency in your life.

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Saent's favorite reads of 2016
December 29, 2016

One of the most active Slack channels at Saent is our #reading room, where we share articles, books, and other media we come across each day.

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Are you taking enough breaks?
December 26, 2016

Breaks are important for a number of reasons, and not taking them can lead to stress, burnout, poor productivity, and poor work quality.

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What we learned designing our conversational interface
December 22, 2016

We announced Saent’s first conversational user interface in a blog post in January 2016. Now almost a full year later, we’ve gone through several iterations on that initial design and learned a lot along the way.

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Is digital obesity the health problem of our future?
December 20, 2016

Author William Powers makes a convincing call to disconnect from our devices and the internet more often in his 2010 book “Hamlet’s Blackberry.”

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The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge: What?
December 16, 2016

In parts I and II of this series on “The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge” we covered the why and the how. But now that you have that half hour of uninterrupted time per day, what can you do with it?

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What’s new in Saent v1.7: Challenges are here!
December 14, 2016

One of the best ways to combat the modern issues of information overload, work stress, burnout, and poor work-life balance is through effective behavior change.

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The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge: How?
December 13, 2016

How can you carve out half an hour of completely uninterrupted time when you’re under constant attack from notifications, social media, and email?

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