# Productivity
All Productivity notes →Email Management
Batch-processing email at set times instead of live-triaging it all day, with a small number of fixed outcomes per message.
Meeting Management
Defaulting to no-meeting unless a decision genuinely requires synchronous time, and running the ones that remain with an agenda and an owner.
Chat Applications
Treating Slack and Teams as async-by-default communication, with response-time expectations set explicitly instead of assumed.
Notification Management
Configuring notifications so interruption is opt-in per channel or person, instead of a constant ambient pull on attention.
Automation
The small, recurring, mechanical tasks worth scripting away entirely — the return on a day spent automating a five-minute weekly chore.
File Organization
A file and folder scheme simple enough to survive six months of not thinking about it, built around retrieval, not categorization purity.
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.