Digital Productivity & Tools
Column V. Every lesson leaves you with a working thing.
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TL-07L1★A Calendar and Task System You'll Actually Keep→ A working two-part system — one calendar, one task list — set up and run for real for three daysTL-10L3★Automation: Killing Repetitive Work with Zapier, Make or n8n→ A live automation that runs by itself: a trigger connected to an action, tested and workingTL-05L1Building a Personal System in Notion→ A working personal dashboard in Notion: a task database, a notes area, and one linked viewTL-03L2Cleaning Messy Data Into Something Usable→ One real messy dataset cleaned into a tidy table you can actually analyseTL-12L1Design Tools: Canva and Figma Basics→ One finished, exported design asset made with deliberate layout choicesTL-09L1File Architecture, Naming and Backups→ A folder structure and naming convention set up on your own files, plus a working backup of what you can't afford to loseTL-11L2Google Workspace Properly: Forms, Apps Script, Sharing Logic→ An automated form flow: a Form that feeds a Sheet and triggers an action, plus deliberate sharingTL-08L1Keyboard Shortcuts: Buying Back Three Hours a Week→ Ten shortcuts you didn't already use, drilled to muscle memory over a week, with the mouse-reach they replace namedTL-06L2Note-Taking: Collect Connections, Not Notes→ A small note system built around linking ideas: five real notes, in your own words, connected to each otherTL-01L1★Spreadsheets From Zero: Formula Logic and Your First 15 Functions→ A working budget sheet built from your own real numbers, with 8+ functions and no hard-coded valuesTL-04L3★Spreadsheets, Level Three: Dynamic Arrays, Power Query, Dashboards→ A one-page live dashboard that updates itself when the underlying data changesTL-02L2★Spreadsheets, Level Two: XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, Conditional Formatting→ An analysis sheet joining two real datasets, with a pivot table and rule-based highlighting