One of the best hacks I found by accident when I bought a massive sleeve of garlic and realized that I wouldn’t be able to use it all before it went bad. I separated the cloves (not peeling them) and put them in a container in the freezer which took less than 5 minutes. True I can’t use it for fresh things but it’s…

This makes a lot of sense-sometimes it seems the more I invest in the first false step, the less progress I make. I think that I feel like I have to live up to the purchases.

Yay! It gets through the firewall at work-I’m happy!

I just get stressed by the idea of having to update them with appointments and events and watching them get messier and messier. Though some of the weekly spreads that focus on tracking and habit building look pretty cool. I also do a lot of my planning on a computer so I do get to have that big screen perspective. I…

I had read about the Bullet Journal about a year ago before it went viral and tried it for a little bit. It wasn’t sticking and although I liked the bullet notations, all the spreads and calendars seemed redundant when I was so reliant on a digital calendar. Now a year later, I found that I was getting overwhelmed by…

Yay! This is exciting-I haven’t been able to find a task manager that I really like. I mostly stick with Asana because of their calendar functionality but I hate their android app. I’m totally going to check this out!

I saw this title and was like ‘there is a name for what I’ve been going through?!’ This is perfectly timed for me cause I just turned 25 and have been feeling this way for a bit right now...I’ve been feeling trapped and thinking of moving and it’s kinda nice to hear that this is fairly normal. It kinda sucks for all…

I’ve be looking to convert all my .wav and .wma files to mp3. Any suggestions regarding a good program that can do it fairly easily?

I’m fairly new at running so my runs are more like walks, short 2 minute spurts of running and back to a walk. I’d really love to get to a point of being able to run a 5k or something like that but am frustrated by how slowly working up to that is taking. I work out about 3 times a week-usually focusing on getting…

OMG, kubaneh is incredible. I had it a couple of times in Israel and it’s buttery and delicious and suddenly you find that there’s none left which leaves you feeling bereft.

Considering I just read that in Pocket, I’m gonna say Pocket wins it for me. I dump everything in Pocket-whether I’m checking blogs or Facebook and then I’ll look at them later. I like that it can sort out videos so when I’m working round the house, I just go through the videos I’ve saved without having to scroll…

Best of luck to you! I’ve been reading lifehacker everyday since I started college (about 4-5 years) and you guys are the reason why I now actually get stuff done on my own steam-I’ve become a productivity junkie (at least in reading about the stuff if not implementing it). Thanks so much-you will be missed!

Thanks Melanie for such a great article! You cover so many great points and this really made me think about my experiences in tech. I’m really lucky as a developer to work in a very diverse company but I remember how hard it was in college to be one of the very few women taking comp-sci classes.

This is what really changed the argument for me in my head. I think it’s become a habit of ours to discount paying corporations-anyway to get around the suits and everyone cheers. But with YouTube we kind of get to understand the business model. It changed my perspective when I realized that when I used ad-block to…

He comes to a skidding stop perfectly behind the girl so she can reach back and, without breaking eye contact with dad, open the door and hop in.

Yes! I’ve been wanting something like this forever!

These are surprisingly cute! I guess the minute I saw socks vs hands, some automatic ew! switch got tripped. But so long as these are new/clean it’s a great idea!

I love Google products but sometimes you get the feeling that they forget that there’s a world out there...

2. You just don’t want to deal. When it comes to money, you’re not the DIY type, and you just want a professional to take care of it.

2. You just don’t want to deal. When it comes to money, you’re not the DIY type, and you just want a professional to take care of it.