GH: 27 "Weird" Productivity Hacks You Can Try Today
The Side Hustle Show
Nick Loper
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
What are the quick, simple, and maybe a little “weird” productivity tricks entrepreneurs use to get more done?
Well, I’m always curious about that myself so I decided to ask 26 of my most productive and successful friends for the “hacks” and tools they use every day.
(And I added in one of my own to round out the list.)
This episode was a ton of fun to put together and I owe a huge thank you to everyone who participated! I know I learned of a few new tools to try and I’m sure you will to.
If you like this style of show, you might consider checking out last year’s round-up episode as well, which asked 25 people how they made their first side hustle or business income.
You can see the participants and the approximate timestamps of their advice below. Enjoy!
Full Show Notes: 27 "Weird" Productivity Hacks You Can Try Today
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| 0:00.0 | Here's an oldie but a goodie from the archives from the side hustle show greatest hits collection |
| 0:06.7 | 27 weird productivity hacks. You can try it today |
| 0:11.7 | Well, what's up? What's up Nick? A loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because we all have the same 24 hours in a day |
| 0:17.1 | It's just about using that time effectively to get the results you want |
| 0:20.6 | I'm excited to share a special roundup style episode for you today |
| 0:23.5 | where I asked 26 of my most productive and successful friends for an out of the box or a weird |
| 0:29.4 | Productivity hack or tip along with their favorite tools or resources some of them may not be that weird |
| 0:35.0 | But you be the judge for example one thing that's helped my productivity in the last 15 months or so has been switching my main workstation from a |
| 0:42.5 | 13 inch laptop to a 24 inch monitor all that extra |
| 0:46.7 | Screen real estate has translated into some concrete efficiency gains day in and day out |
| 0:52.1 | It's a cost 120 bucks. It was an investment. I should have made years ago and a couple tools. I can't live without for me |
| 0:58.4 | Last pass is a password management software that saves me so much time and just like brain |
| 1:03.6 | Capacity brain space. I love it for generating secure passwords |
| 1:06.8 | It remembers them for me and I can easily share those with other people on my team as well |
| 1:10.8 | The other is a tool called clip X |
| 1:13.0 | It's a clipboard manager for Windows and there's probably a Mac equivalent |
| 1:16.7 | I think one is called copy clip |
| 1:17.9 | I didn't realize this was something I needed in my life until I installed it |
| 1:21.4 | But now something I use every day basically it stores the last 25 things you copied and let's you pick which one |
| 1:27.3 | You want to paste and it's free. I love it. This episode is divided into four sections number one planning your day or starting your day |
| 1:34.0 | Number two is your workplace where my monitor example would fall under that one |
| 1:37.9 | Number three is in the zone while you're working and number four is other |
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