Writing
2026
Lifeline 1.11: Smoother upgrades and a steadier Sign Off 06.26 The Playbook Builder Method: How Animalz Approaches AirOps Quill ↗ 06.03 Lifeline 1.10: Vacation mode and automatic backups 05.31 Lifeline 1.9.1 and 1.9.2: A smarter Sign Off Challenge 05.27 Animalz Now Runs AirOps for Content Teams ↗ 05.21 Lifeline 1.9: The Sign Off Challenge 05.12 Lifeline 1.8: MCP support and better breaks 04.05 Glossary of AEO and AI Search Terms ↗ 03.24 Don't Stop at Workflows: Build a Compounding Content System ↗ 03.19 Your Prompts Are Fine: Context Engineering Is Your Next AI Problem ↗ 03.05 Lifeline 1.7: Lock in your breaks with Committed Mode 02.23
2025
The AI Onion: Why 95% of AI Projects Die and What to Do About It ↗ 11.20 Claude Code for Content Marketers ↗ 10.02 The TIP Method: Choose the Right AI Model for Every Task ↗ 08.21 Creativity Is Back: 20 Growth Ideas That Don't Rely on Keywords ↗ 07.03 Confessions of an AI Addict ↗ 05.22 How to Write and Use a Sprint Goal (With 5 Templates) ↗ 05.12 How Rilla Doubled Brand Traffic with Proprietary Data and SEO ↗ 04.17 Code Is Now Content: How We Built Our SEO Calculator With AI ↗ 02.20 Get Organic Traffic Estimates With Our Free SEO Forecasting Tool ↗ 02.11 ChatGPT in May 2026: Five Tiers, Three Model Families, One Decision ↗ 01.16
2024
Content Marketing Experiments That Worked for Us in 2024 ↗ 12.19 Blockbuster Blogs: How Breakthrough Ideas Are Born ↗ 12.05 Revive 2.0: The Content Refresh Tool for Instant Decay Analysis ↗ 11.21 Beyond Vanity Metrics: SegMetrics' Keith Perhac on Asking Better Questions of Your Marketing Data (Interview) ↗ 10.28 Stop Chasing Perfect Attribution: Deborah Carver on Making Analytics Work for Content (Interview) ↗ 10.24 Milestone Marketing: An Overlooked Growth Engine in B2B SaaS ↗ 10.09 From Zero to 40k: How Sara Stella Lattanzio Built Her LinkedIn Empire (Interview) ↗ 10.01 Your Lifeline data x AI = Productivity insights ❤️ 09.26 The Content Attribution Survival Guide ↗ 09.24 Content Marketing Budgeting: What Should Your Content Cost? (With Pricing Examples) ↗ 08.22 Founder-Led Content: How Christophe Pasquier Built Slite's Brand Through Consistent Storytelling ↗ 08.15 Founder-Led Content: Blitz-Scaling Social with doola's Arjun Mahadevan ↗ 08.14 Founder-Led Content: How Skiplevel's Irene Yu Turns Personal Experience Into a Growth Engine ↗ 08.13 Founder-Led Content: Lessons From Reclaim's Henry Shapiro on Authentic Engagement ↗ 08.12 Discover hidden Lifeline features in the Legacy menu 🗝️ 08.06 Lifeline 1.6.8: Get 🍅s for manually added sessions 07.30 Stay Strong: Never Let AI Fill Your Blank Page ↗ 07.25 How Jess Cook Turns Content and PR into a Power Couple at Island (Interview) ↗ 07.16 Why Megan Morreale Thinks Content Marketing As We Know It Is Dying (And What's Next) (Interview) ↗ 07.16 How a Printed Book Helped Unit21 Generate Millions in Pipeline ↗ 06.27 The Google Leak Confirms: Please Readers, Not Algorithms ↗ 05.31 Agile Coaching 101: Everything You Need To Get Started ↗ 02.01 How to Measure Sprint Velocity in Agile ↗ 02.01 What Are The Most Popular Agile Methodologies in 2025? ↗ 01.19
2023
Goodbye Hallucinations, Hello AI Research: Advanced Tactics for Content Teams ↗ 11.28 5 Sprint Retrospective Benefits That Will Transform Your Team ↗ 11.02 Team Health Metrics and Indicators for Ambitious Teams ↗ 08.09 9 Team Health Check Methods To Unlock Team Potential ↗ 08.08 From Numbers to Nuggets: How Sacra Transforms Data Into Research Worth Reading ↗ 06.29 Writing User Stories: Detailed Guide for Agile Teams (+ Templates) ↗ 06.26 Lifeline 1.6.4: Supercharge your productivity with our auto-launch enhancements 05.30 How to Succeed as Scrum Master with a New Team + Checklist ↗ 05.23 AI Content Strategy: A Guide to the New Era of Content Marketing ↗ 05.15 AI Transformation: A Soothing Framework for Adapting to the Future (We Eat Robots) 05.04 Lifeline 1.6.2: ⏰ Ticking clock sounds, enhanced auto-launch snooze, and a new break screen 05.02 The Pomodoro Technique book summary and review: Master your time 04.17 14 productivity-boosting AI prompts 04.05 Lifeline 1.6 now available: Sleek new interface awaits you! 😋 04.04 The surprising ups and downs of my ChatGPT productivity experiment 03.31 Make someone's day: Let your words fuel a creator’s productivity 03.23 The Pomodoro Technique and other work rhythms - which one suits you? 03.12 The rise of AI and the fall of focus 03.07 Lifeline product updates: improved panel designs and new pricing 03.02 Give yourself a break: start meetings 5 minutes later 03.01 Turning Pro: A kick in the butt by a book 02.21 Pomodoro planning: Step-by-step guide to track and finish work with 🍅s (incl. free template) 02.18 How to Stop Your Retrospectives Running Long ↗ 02.09 The Power of Pomodoro: Achieve anything with a tomato a day 02.08 Lifeline Pro: New lower prices 02.07 Attention Over Availability: A Poem 01.31 How to talk to an AI and get the results you want (Part 1) 01.28 Stop sLARPing: Let go of the pressure to reply to every message 01.18 Time to get uncomfortable: set a goal you dread (mine is about 💰) 01.16 Forget about goals and focus on The Process first 01.09
2022
One productivity mantra to rule them all 12.27 A theory from 1865 explains why you keep getting busier 12.21 Does multitasking work? Take the test 12.14 Meeting tips you haven't heard before 12.07 Four takeaways from "A World Without Email” 11.23 How do you recover from stress? 11.09 How Parabol Reached 150K Monthly Visits With Content Journalism ↗ 10.11 Recipes vs. Movies: When to Use Storytelling in Content Marketing ↗ 09.19 Timeless meditation: sitting without a timer 07.27 Smooth idle detection in Lifeline 1.5 07.14 The new Saent desktop app: here's a demo 07.13 Manual of Me: Create yours today with this short introduction 06.23 Energize - Ride your energy waves 06.15 A simple demo of the results of single versus multitasking (VIDEO) 06.08 Eat less internet with digital fasting 06.02 Use Yesterbox to tame your email 05.25 How to make good presentation slides—this process made millions 05.16 2022: Tame the ravenous work beast 05.08 2021: Flexibility for more balance and more Saent 05.07 2017 - 2020: Being productive back in the real world 05.06 2016: The productivity company 05.05 2015: Press a button for focus 05.04 2014: Timeboxing + distraction blocking + gamification 05.03 2011-2012: The crazy idea of intentional disconnecting 05.02 2008: Empty your mind and stop multitasking 05.01 My personal productivity journey and the history of Saent 04.30 Lifeline Privacy Policy - New 04.24 Lifeline Terms and Conditions - New 04.24 Scrum Boards: How to Track Tasks in Your Sprints ↗ 03.22 My approach as productivity coach 03.15 What is the Retrospective Prime Directive? ↗ 03.15 Member and partner update Q1 2022 02.26 Saent's mission and Lifeline's UX overhaul - What do you think? 02.23 Why can't I focus? - 10 invaluable insights for more concentration 01.28 From Docs to Blocks: 6 Note-Taking Tips to Overcome Writer’s Block ↗ 01.11
2021
Hey LinkedIn, let’s kick that LinkedIn addiction together 12.29 2021 wrap-up: Find Your Focus challenge, Saent Community, and Lifeline UX overhaul 12.22 Join the Find Your Focus Challenge 2022 12.20 Improve any Meeting with Agile Thinking ↗ 12.01 How tiny interruptions tank your Return-on-Attention 11.25 Sprint Backlog Essentials: What You Need to Know ↗ 11.10 The best productivity books worthy of your time—plus the duds that aren't 09.15 Letters From a Stoic book review and summary 08.29 The Coaching Habit: quick reference guide 08.29 Thrive book review and summary 08.29 BrainChains book review and summary 08.28 Flow book review and summary 08.28 Smarter Faster Better book review and summary 08.28 Hamlet’s Blackberry book review and summary 08.21 Lifeline 1.4.8 release notes 08.19 Deep Work book summary and review 08.16 Lifeline 1.4.7 release notes 07.29 Overheat warning (Lifeline feature) 07.23 Lifeline Sprint Report #1: break launch button and cleaned Preferences 05.30 Lifeline Sprint Report #0: starting with sprints 05.17 Go beyond Pomodoro with Lifeline Pro 04.18 Custom session lengths in Lifeline are here 01.05
2020
Join our two-week Deep Work Challenge starting January 4th 12.28 Your top five Saent Button questions answered 10.08 Lifeline now available on the macOS App Store 10.03 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 13: Diane Janknegt ↗ 09.24 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 12: Akhtar Badshah ↗ 09.10 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 11: Colin McElwee ↗ 09.03 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 10: Bukola Akingbade ↗ 08.25 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 09: Javier Cardona ↗ 08.17 How to onboard first-time internet users ↗ 08.10 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 08: Vimbayi Kajese ↗ 07.31 How KaiOS empowers new internet users ↗ 07.27 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 07: Valeriy Skachko ↗ 07.24 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 06: Max Cuvellier ↗ 07.03 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 05: Asim Alam ↗ 06.15 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 04: Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora ↗ 06.10 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 03: Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami ↗ 06.01 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 02: Aaron Fu ↗ 05.25 Enabling Tomorrow Ep 01: Vic Bassey ↗ 05.21 Lifeline 1.1 (20200216) release notes 02.25 Enable tomorrow, the next phase for KaiOS ↗ 01.24 What Lifeline can do for you (and what it looks like!) 01.11
2019
2018
Why You Absolutely Need To Time Your Work (Even When You’re Not a Lawyer) 12.23 The Five Principles of Saent Lifeline 11.02 The Magic Power of Breaks: Work Less and Get More Done 06.16 Solving Tech’s Problems With... More Tech?! 05.26 The Case Against Scheduling in The Evening 05.20 Technical update: Fix for login issue on Windows (beta release) 05.19 How KaiOS helps carriers transform their business models ↗ 05.14 Saent Status Update - May 2018 05.14 Technical update: Saent desktop software server error 05.07
2017
A productivity checklist to manage your daily work (includes template) 03.30 We need a break from our phones 02.23 The Digital Diet Plan 01.31 How to read more, today 01.23 The way we're working is broken, but we can fix it 01.16 Why Saent is a remote company 01.09 Consistency is the key to lasting behavior change 01.02
2016
Saent's favorite reads of 2016 12.29 Are you taking enough breaks? 12.26 What we learned designing our conversational interface 12.22 Designing a conversational interface ↗ 12.21 Is digital obesity the health problem of our future? 12.20 The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge: What? 12.16 What’s new in Saent v1.7: Challenges are here! 12.14 The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge: How? 12.13 The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge: Why? 12.07 Waking up early and getting to work isn't just for workaholics 12.05 Why multitasking isn't a feature 11.30 Here’s what happened when the Saent team met in person for the first time 11.28 Help Saent get on stage at The Next Web: Momentum 11.01 The secret to getting your goals right 09.12 Are you asking yourself these seven questions when planning your day? 08.25 Design in the age of everything all the time ↗ 08.15 The power of letting go 08.15 Ready for your break? Crafting a vacation email message 07.17 Build a daily routine that sticks, even during big change 06.22 Remember everything and improve creative thinking 06.15 The Importance of Not Staying Busy ↗ 05.12
2015
14 Ways to Redesign Your Day for an Optimal Work-life Balance ↗ 07.23 Bimonthly Productivity Top 5: Travel Companions 07.19 The Secret to Doing What's Important in Life and Work 05.10 Bimonthly Productivity Top 5: Slack and Tomatoes 05.02 How to Be as Unproductive as Possible 04.24 Building a Productive Tech Startup Using Evernote Business 04.17 Calm Your Mind and Overcome Almost Any Challenge 04.12 Managing Creativity AND Productivity: 5 Tips for Founders and Leaders 04.05 The Best Meetings of My Life 03.27 20 Easy Things You Can Do This Weekend, to Improve Productivity Next Week 03.19 5 Tips to Read More and Forget Less 03.14 Bimonthly Productivity Top 5: Sunrise and The Rise of Superman 03.05 Simply Use Your Calendar and Turbocharge Your Day 03.03 How to Use More of Your Brain 02.14 You Say Yes, I Say No – 7 Tips to Help Minimize Commitments 02.01 A Deadly Wandering book summary 01.30 Stay Flexible and Feel Good with this Powerful Asana Feature 01.21 A book review and summary of Essentialism by Greg McKeown 01.15 How To Stay Focused and Withstand Unlimited Distraction 01.11 How to Improve at Work (and Life) With This Simple Solution 01.04 Understanding Your Inner Autopilot: Do You Know These 4 Common Habits of Habits? 01.02
2014
Annual Kaizen review: my self improvement in 2014 12.31 The One Habit to Rule Them All: Eat the Frog 12.26 Getting Your Priorities Right is Hard. Here’s the Real Reason. 12.19 Here’s Why You Shouldn't Be More Productive in 2015 12.11 Get More Done by Taking Your Time 12.03 9 Things You Can Learn From BuzzFeed’s CEO and Founder 11.06 Learning the Hard Way: Management 11.04 Why Not Busy is the New Black 10.24 How to Follow Your Gut? 10.18