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Do You Formally Schedule Research Time?
I’ve just wrapped up my first year as a junior faculty member at a new institution. Overall it’s been a wonderful transition, but I have run up against that familiar problem for academics: the...
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Updates to ScheduleOnce for Google Calendar Appointments
After everyone finished gasping at the news that Google was canceling Calendar Appointments, which we reported about last winter here at ProfHacker, many faculty pursued other online solutions for...
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Do You Schedule Email Delivery?
I’m curious, readers: how much attention do you pay to the timestamp on the emails you read? A number of web-based services now exist that allow you to schedule when an email will be sent. Some of...
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Give (and Get) Some Good Advice
So how’s your middle-of-the-semester going? Some of you might be on spring break right now, or have just returned from break, or perhaps are looking forward to one next week. The vagaries of the...
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How to Easily Schedule a Meeting Across Time Zones
Online communications tools such as Skype and Google Hangouts can make scholarly collegiality and collaboration more personal than email-only relationships. But what isn’t always easy is scheduling...
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Schedule Meetings Anywhere with Meet
In May, Amy wrote suggested Sunrise as an interesting cross-platform calendar option, right before it was bought by Microsoft. I don’t use Sunrise myself (Fantastical for life), but their most recent...
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When Should You Reply to Email?
An uncomfortable truth about the modern workplace is that many people are buried under a seemingly-endless flow of email. Reading it, responding to it, and managing it can take a lot of time unless...
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Letting Your Calendar Breathe
A common frustration in academic life is being so fully-stocked with meetings that there is no time or energy to . . . actually do work. Or, to just idly contemplate things, which is often such an...
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Open Thread Wednesday: Solutions for Tracking Projects
Pretty much everything we do in academic publishing has a deadline, whether it’s the date for an abstract or paper submission to a call for proposals, the next big national grant deadline, a personal...
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Making Time for Deep Work
As Jason noted a year ago in his review of Cal Newport’s book Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Newport’s central claim will seem familiar to many academic readers: deep work...
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