Automation

Productivity for Knowledge Workers

A book-shaped table of contents for productivity as practiced by a knowledge worker: foundations, self-management, goal setting, time and deep work, personal knowledge management, learning, task systems, decision making, habits, digital productivity, engineering and career practice, health, review, and an advanced operating-system layer, plus reference appendices — cross-linking existing notes instead of duplicating them.

File Organization

A file and folder scheme simple enough to survive six months of not thinking about it, built around retrieval, not categorization purity.

Email Management

Batch-processing email at set times instead of live-triaging it all day, with a small number of fixed outcomes per message.

Chat Applications

Treating Slack and Teams as async-by-default communication, with response-time expectations set explicitly instead of assumed.

4 — AI as a Productivity Partner

Where an LLM agent genuinely removes work — drafting, triage, research synthesis — versus where it just adds a review step; see Agentic AI for the specific tools this book leans on.