Getting Started with Shift: How To Make The Most of Your Workstation

First and foremost, welcome Shift Boss! You’ve joined a community of thousands of productivity enthusiasts around the world who are crushing to-do lists and getting more out of their day. As a newcomer to Shift, you probably have a few questions about how to get the most out of Shift. Well, you've come to the right place! In this blog, we’ll give you a walkthrough of the platform, answer all your burning questions, and provide a few pointers.

Olivia Scholes

Marketing Associate - 24 Oct, 2018

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The Shift Referral Program Just Got Even Better

So, you’ve got lots of friends, colleagues, family member asking you for productivity tricks. ...And since you’re already a Shift Boss, it probably sounds a bit like this: How do you get so much done every day and stay balanced? How did you respond to that email so fast? How did you like my Facebook post less than 1 minute after I published it? How do you keep up with all of your Slack and WhatsApp messages? As much as we all enjoy being a bit smug with our answers to these questions, we enjoy sharing Shift with friends even more… Which is why we created the best referral program ever.

Nadia Tatlow

CEO - 12 Jul, 2018

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How to Log In to Two WhatsApp Accounts at Once

Anyone who knows anything about being productive knows that, under such a cycle, productivity will never, ever be possible. What you need is a solution to the madness. So, let’s talk about how to log into two (or more) WhatsApp accounts at once.  

Nadia Tatlow

CEO - 24 Apr, 2018

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How to Stay Productive as an Entrepreneur Working On the Road

Productive people can be found anywhere. We’re inspired by Calvin Rosser, aka "Positive Cal,” a Princeton graduate, entrepreneur, and writer on a mission to empower 10 million people to live more fulfilling lives. During his career in high finance and building businesses, while traveling to over 25 countries, Calvin has developed an impressive pr

Lisa Ellis

Marketing Specialist - 30 Mar, 2018

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How to Make The Most of Asana for Your Team

When it comes to popular task management platforms, Asana is fairly high on the list. For most teams, Asana is the go-to productivity platform used to supplement every single project; while for others, it serves as the catch-all platform for tasks that don’t call for a specialized software or system. But regardless of if you’re an avid user of Asana or you’re just getting started with it, this article is for you.

Nadia Tatlow

CEO - 15 Mar, 2018

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Optimizing Your Inbox With the Boomerang Extension

There’s a running joke around the Shift office that everyone is always productive—except when they’re not. haha. No, but seriously, unproductivity happens to the best of us. So, to better understand the root causes of our team’s (rare) unproductiveness, we took a poll. Can you guess what the biggest culprit ended up being? Yep, email. But not just email in general. Specifically, the inbox.

Nadia Tatlow

CEO - 15 Feb, 2018

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How to Fall In Love with Your Productivity Routine

I’m willing to bet any amount of money (okay, $20 at most) that “Be more productive” was somewhere on your list of new year’s resolutions for 2018. Honestly, it’s the type of resolution that ends up on nearly everybody’s list, almost every single year. So why is productivity one of those things that we seem to be forever chasing, but never able to truly achieve?

Lisa Ellis

Marketing Specialist - 07 Feb, 2018

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How to Use Emojis On Your Desktop, Like A Boss

Emojis are life! Literally. Anyone who begs to differ clearly isn’t aware that emoji users around the world manage to share upwards of 6 billion emojis per day. That’s a lot of emoji power. The quiet strength of these everybody-friendly picture characters lies in their multifunctionality. Not to mention, they’re super relatable and relative to the human experience.

Nadia Tatlow

CEO - 08 Jan, 2018

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The Biggest Problem With Gmail (And How To Solve It!)

When Google released Gmail, it changed the way people use email. It was the first web-based email system to break out of the mold set by the desktop email clients that came before. Beginning as a sort of secret club that you had to be invited to, it took off right from the start. Not only was Gmail faster, with a much more advanced and easier to use interface, the way Gmail handled and sorted email was a giant leap ahead. Gmail left behind the hard to follow, chronological lists of messages and sorted everything into nice, neat, individual conversations. Many people didn’t realize at the time just how revolutionary this change was.

Tobyn

Product Evangelist - 03 Apr, 2017

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