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Meet Planning — for smarter collaboration

How do you manage the performance of a group of people you rarely meet in person? Here are the essential tools you need for managing remote teams.

Managing remote teams: the essential tools

Work diaries are one of the most overlooked time management tools going. Here are three simple ways to keep a work diary – from high to low effort.

How to keep a work diary: 3 simple methods

Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day? You're not alone. Learn how to overcome the productivity paradox and get more done in less time.

The Productivity Paradox: Achieving More with Less Time

Get organized and boost your productivity with our timesheet templates. Download our collection today and streamline your time tracking process.

Timesheet Template Collection: Up Your Productivity Game Today

Everyone wants to get paid on time for all their work—you just need a solid invoicing workflow. From DIY to automation, here's how to make an invoice.

How to make an invoice: 3 simple ways

Remote work seems like an unending list of positives. But it has overlooked challenges as well. Here are practical solutions to improving it.

How can we improve the remote work experience?

There’s no shortage of architectural tools for stages of project delivery and the amount of choice can be paralyzing. Here are the essential architecture apps.

10 essential architecture apps for firms and consultants

Neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann helps explain how time perception works – from the role attention plays to why time seems to speed up.

How to slow down time: Marc Wittmann on time perception

Are you tired of managing your business processes manually? Look no further! These process tracking apps will revolutionize the way you work.

Streamline Your Workflow: The Best Process Tracking Apps for Business

Customer profitability helps businesses identify how to improve service offerings and strengthen customer relationships. And while it’s notoriously difficult to measure, that doesn’t make it unknowable. Here’s what you need to consider in order to truly understand client profitability.

Understanding customer profitability

Employee engagement is seen as an advantage. But there is a ceiling to its success that can lead to burnout. Here's what you can do to stay on the right side.

When employee engagement becomes burnout

Drawing from his book, The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli helps to explain how we create flowing time in a world where it doesn’t physically exist.

Does time exist? Carlo Rovelli and the quantum response

Discover how AI enhances work performance and unlocks the future of work. These cutting-edge technologies revolutionize the way we work. Learn more now!

AI Enhances Work Performance: Unlocking the Future of Productivity

Trust provides us with the psychological safety to do our best work. So what are the best ways to build lasting trust in the workplace?

The best ways to build trust in the workplace

We know that micro-management is bad. Here’s why building greater autonomy at work should be a top priority for every company – and how to go about it.

How to build greater autonomy at work

Boost your work productivity with these amazing Chrome add-ons. From time management to distraction blockers, we've got you covered.

Work Smarter: The Best Chrome Add-ons for Next-Level Productivity

Tired of manually tracking your time? Discover the power of auto timesheets for busy professionals. Say goodbye to time-consuming tasks!

Set and Forget: The Power of Auto Timesheets for Busy Professionals

New out-the-box AI tools can offer a quick and simple route to automation. Here’s how to apply AI without the steep price tag of traditional approaches.

4 out-the-box AI tools for small businesses

Unlock your productive flow and maximize your efficiency with this comprehensive guide. Learn how to streamline your work process and achieve optimal results.

Flow Like a Pro: The Guide to Productive Flow for Maximum Efficiency

We explore what kind of tasks you should automate, and the best out-the-box AI tools for automating everyday time wasters.

How to automate unproductive work

People usually work overtime because they have to, but it can also present new opportunities. So what should workplaces consider when offering overtime?

Working overtime: exploitation or opportunity?

Hyper-connectivity has created a culture of instant availability. In this age of constant distraction, here are simple ways to improve your digital health.

21 ways to improve your digital health

Good time management isn’t about working for hours without breaks or multitasking; it’s about using time effectively. Here are the best techniques to do that.

The best time management techniques to focus your day

Companies around the world are fighting for attention, so we see their ads and products for as long as possible. Here’s what the attention economy means.

The attention economy: what it is, what it’s doing to you

Scope creep can add unnecessary costs, delays, and headaches to any project. Don't let it happen to your projects and stop scope creep now!

Stop Scope Creep in Its Tracks: Ultimate Guide for Project Managers

While it’s tempting to power through without stopping, denying yourself breaks limits your performance. Here’s why true productivity requires downtime.

Why true productivity requires downtime

Still high off our latest Memory meet-up — in Lisbon – here are the ideas that made it so awesome. Take a look at using our checklist to plan your own.

The 10 best ideas to come out of Memory’s 2019 meet-up

Project reporting doesn't have to take hours. Check out five of the best project report templates to make client and stakeholder updates a doddle.

Project report templates: 5 of the best for simple reporting

Everybody likes feeling productive, but what is it about being efficient and blasting through a task that we enjoy so much?

Why does productivity feel so good?

What can Parkinson’s law teach modern businesses? And why, more than 50 years on, are we still talking about it?

What Parkinson's law can teach companies about productivity

Employee engagement is one of the single most important factors for any business. But since it’s hard to quantify, many aren’t aware of just how it impacts their productivity and efficiency. Here’s exactly why employee engagement matters, and why prioritizing it will always be crucial for success.

Why employee engagement matters

Conduct a project post mortem and gain valuable insights. Learn how to identify key areas for improvement and make the necessary changes.

Beyond the Finish Line: How to Conduct a Project Post Mortem

Most of us don’t work as efficiently as we could. Here’s how to build a better work schedule for a more productive and satisfying week.

How to build a better work schedule

Leadership needs to be decisive and inspiring, providing vision and structure, and helping every member of the team do their best work. But how? Start here.

4 Leadership Philosophies To Live By

Unlock your full potential with these 7 time management skills. Learn how to stay focused, organized, and achieve your goals faster. Don't wait, start now!

Time Management Mastery: 7 Skills You Need to Achieve Your Goals

Want to ensure success every time? Discover the power of project monitoring! Learn how to track progress, stay on budget, and deliver projects on time.

The Power of Project Monitoring: How to Ensure Success Every Time

Feedback is key to company culture. For active and honest employee contribution, here’s how to build a feedback culture that actually sustains itself.

How to build a feedback culture

In the age of “employee experience”, here’s why employee happiness should be a top priority for every business.

Why employee happiness should be a top priority

From giving women credit for their own ideas to calling out unacceptable behavior, here are nine of the best ways to support women in your workplace.

The best ways to support women in your workplace

Delegating work can be tricky, but the desire for control shouldn’t come at the cost of a balanced workload. Improve delegation skills with these steps.

Improve your delegation skills in 6 steps

How can we ensure diversity in our products while keeping our design process productive and rewarding? Mindfulness might just hold the answer.

How Mindfulness Influences your Design Thinking

Project management is a notoriously tricky business. Costs, risks, resources, deadlines; just staying on top of them is a job in itself. But there are a few things you can do to avoid the most common difficulties.

22 indispensable project management tips

Is it really possible to do the same amount of work in a significantly reduced time? And if so, does having less time actually make you more productive?

Does having less time make you more productive?

The easiest way to increase your productivity starts with outsourcing work. Here's our definitive list of all the low-value tasks everyone should outsource.

10 tasks everyone should outsource – and the best apps for the job

Almost every workplace has its share of bad behavior. But what’s the best way to deal with it? And as a leader, how can you fix a toxic work environment?

How leadership can fix a toxic work environment

How do you welcome, set up, and train an employee who you never actually meet in person? Here’s how to onboard remote employees the right way.

How to onboard remote employees

Company culture is a massive deal and should be at the top of your business agenda. Here’s exactly why it matters and how to build a really robust one.

Why company culture matters

Many companies openly promote "mental health sick days". But is this the best way to approach employee mental health? And as a policy, is it enough?

Mental health sick days: should they be standard policy?

We’ve pulled together some project management tools that don’t demand knowledge from a higher plane of existence to operate.

9 simple project management tools (that don’t require training)

We all want to become more productive – but how do you do it and how long will it take? Master these golden rules of productivity to get there faster.

The 7 rules of productivity

Here are our favorite remote team-building activities—from breaking the ice to enjoying regular quality time with your virtual team.

The best team building activities for remote teams

Setting goals help us to achieve our best work—provided we actually stick to them. Here's a template for setting realistic goals which you actually achieve.

How to set realistic goals

Client expectations are notoriously unruly – but luckily there are some things you can do to manage expectations from the start. Here are the golden rules.

4 golden rules to managing client expectations

When it comes to small business operations, efficiency and effectiveness are key. Streamline your small business with these five essential approaches.

Five ways to streamline your small business

A ton of different biases are constantly distorting our thinking. Here are common biases affecting our decision-making and how to master them.

8 types of bias in decision making

Discover the power of time tracking and why it's crucial for your business success. Learn how time tracking software can help boost your bottom line.

The Power of Time Tracking: Why Your Business Needs It

It’s tired, it’s boring, it’s misrepresentative and we need to start admitting that there are some downsides to working remotely. Here are six of the biggest.

The downsides of remote working

From virtual assistants to automatic timesheets to self-policing activity trackers, here are the best time saving apps for busy professionals.

8 time saving apps for busy professionals

Time tracking is essential for every creative workflow – making sure you get paid in full and understand your successes. But that doesn’t stop it being boring and intrusive. It’s precisely why we designed Timely – the first AI-powered time tracking tool that automatically tracks everything for you.

Time tracking for creatives

What does “healthy competition” mean? Before trying it out, it’s worth stopping to consider whether it's actually ever a healthy choice.

Can workplace competition ever be healthy?

In a design recruitment round, about 70% of applicant portfolios used a dribbblish approach. But ultimately, it impoverishes the whole point of design.

Pretty useless: don’t hire dribbblish designers

There’s an art to finding the right remote workspace. To help you find yours, here are the best places to work remotely according to the Timely team.

The best places to work remotely

Nearly all of us waste time each day without realizing it. So how can we become more aware of how we use it and how we unconsciously waste it?

How do you unconsciously waste time?

Maximize your productivity and success with these 5 remote work hacks. Learn how to stay focused, motivated, and efficient from anywhere. Start today!

Mastering Remote Work: 5 Hacks for Productivity and Success

BIG Timely news. We’re happy, humbled and extremely excited to announce that we’ve raised $5M from some incredible investors! We’re also making a few changes to names and company structures as we head into a new stage of growth. Check out what we’re planning and what you can look forward to.

Big, Timely news: $5M investment and a note on names

A boilerplate is the most important piece your company will ever write, read by journalists, investors, and clients alike. Here’s how to write one.

How to write a company boilerplate

How can we measure productivity to get more from our performance? This guide helps you quantify and measure your personal version of productivity.

Quantifying productivity

Daily routines provide essential structure but they should never be fixed. Here are many ways to keep daily work routine healthy, productive and rewarding.

16 ways to keep your daily work routine healthy

We know data is important, we’ve got the tools to track it - our problem isn’t collecting data, it’s knowing what to do with it.

From "data-driven" to "data-enabled"

Say goodbye to lost billable hours and hello to increased revenue with attorney time tracking software. Learn how to maximize your billable time.

Maximizing Billable Hours with Attorney Time Tracking Software

Project control is an essential part of project management, crucial to every stage of a project’s lifecycle. We break down what it is.

The importance of project control in project management

Those of us really looking to get more out of time, we first need to master it. Here are simple time management tips to help you towards a more productive day.

44 everyday time management tips

Freelancing comes with a unique set of new challenges. We break down the biggest freelance problems we’ve encountered and how to go about fixing them.

The biggest challenges freelancers face

When it comes to performance, every detail matters. While there’s no one hack for mastering your workflow, task trackers are pretty much the next best thing.

Task trackers: what they are, why you need one

Time tracking provides remote teams with essential structure, visibility, and transparency. But that doesn’t stop it from feeling wildly unproductive.

Time tracking for remote teams

Every company can improve employee motivation and performance by prioritizing a few things – from employee autonomy to recognition and respect.

Five ways to improve employee motivation

At Timely, we’re huge remote work fans. If you’re thinking of taking the plunge, consider the top six advantages of hiring remote workers we’ve found.

The 6 advantages of hiring remote workers

Is your team struggling to stay on top of their workload? Our post to team workload management has got you covered. Take your team to the next level.

Guide to Team Workload Management: Tips for Maximum Efficiency

One of the best things about building software is hearing that it actually makes a difference. At Timely, we live for that stuff – and it makes our tool better! Take a look at a few shiny awards we’ve just received which recognize Timely as one of the best time tracking apps out there.

It's awards season!

As a remote employee, time tracking is essential; it helps you stay visible and accountable. But that doesn’t stop it from being wildly unproductive.

Time tracking for remote employees

Client communication is an essential but almost invisible task. Few track the time spent on client emails, calls, and meetings; fewer consider it billable.

Should you bill for client communication?

New technology is pointless until people actually adopt it. We look at some of the main reasons people resist technological change and explore strategies.

Resistance to change: motivating employees to adopt new technology

Hiring remote employees isn’t too different to hiring in-house, but there are a few nuances that only come with experience. With 50% of our team working remotely, at Memory we’ve learned a thing or two about how to get it right. Here are our tips on how to conduct remote interviews and what to ask.

How we hire remote workers

We explore the psychological factors driving people to work on vacation and how to find out if you’re actually ready to take the plunge.

The anxiety trade-off: should you work on vacation?

Time tracking is essential for any marketing agency looking to improve their workflow. Learn how to streamline your team's productivity.

Streamlining Your Marketing Agency Workflow with Time Tracking

AI is becoming a normal feature of the workplace. We explore how AI increases workplace productivity and the essential AI apps every professional should have.

AI productivity apps for every professional

Time tracking is an essential practice for every architect, but few actually have the spare time and cognitive energy to do it accurately.

Time tracking for architects

Automatic legal billing software sets a whole new standard for legal practice. We break down how automated solutions are set to change legal firms operate.

Beware of legal billing software that isn’t automatic

Pricing your work shouldn’t involve a standoff between flat rates and fixed fees. Sustainable contract-based business depends on a mixture of both.

Pricing 101: When to use fixed rates and hourly rates

Despite working in highly irregular creative flows, developers can get a ton out of time tracking whether freelance, remote, agency-based, or in-house.

Time tracking for developers

As a consultant, time is your most valuable asset. Discover the best time tracking software for consultants and take control of your billable hours.

The Consultant's Guide to Time Tracking: Choosing the Right Software 🕰️

We held our second-ever company meet-up earlier this year and want to share a few learnings – especially, why it’s important for teams to spend time together.

Behind the scenes at a Memory meet-up!

Time tracking for CPAs has never been easier! Discover the future of the industry and how technology is transforming the way we work.

The Future of CPA Time Tracking: How Technology is Changing the Game

Feedback is just a misunderstood term for communicating effectively. Here’s how to give constructive feedback in four steps in a business setting.

Give constructive feedback in 4 steps

Digital time clocks for employees are the future of employee management. With accurate time tracking, they're a game-changer for businesses of all sizes.

Digital Time Clocks: Revolutionizing Employee Management

Maximize your earnings as a freelancer by tracking your hours. Learn how to use this secret weapon to your advantage and take control of your income.

The Freelancer's Secret Weapon: Tracking Hours for Maximum Earnings

Remote employee time tracking can be challenging, but it doesn't have to be. Learn how to manage your team's time effectively and boost productivity.

Keeping Time in a Virtual World: Remote Employee Time Tracking

Managing employee productivity and effectiveness is an essential part of supporting a team. Here are the best KPIs for measuring employee performance.

KPIs for measuring employee performance

Manage freelancers like a pro with our guide. Learn tips and tricks to streamline your workflow and boost productivity. Take charge of your projects today!

The Ultimate Guide to Freelancer Management: Tips and Tricks