How I Stopped Working After 5 pm

Alex Ko
5 min readFeb 21, 2020

My setup for working effectively

“Whatever, I’ll have time to do this tomorrow.”

That was the biggest lie I told myself whenever I postponed tasks in Things 3 — my favourite task manager app.

I tried almost everything. Setting deadlines, using start dates…but I still procrastinated. Eventually, Things 3 simply became a task depository app.

Then, I decided to dig deep into the reasons as to why I was constantly procrastinating.

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