Books
What the productivity world reads.
A short, opinionated reading list from the world of todos, habits, and personal organization — 15 books behind the ideas on focus, systems, and deciding what actually matters.
Start anywhere. Each one has a summary and the key takeaways worth remembering.
Getting Things Done
David Allen · 2001
Deep Work
Cal Newport · 2016
Atomic Habits
James Clear · 2018
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey · 1989
Essentialism
Greg McKeown · 2014
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman · 2021
The Bullet Journal Method
Ryder Carroll · 2018
Make Time
Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky · 2018
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg · 2012
Eat That Frog!
Brian Tracy · 2001
The ONE Thing
Gary Keller & Jay Papasan · 2013
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte · 2022
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss · 2007
Indistractable
Nir Eyal · 2019
The 12 Week Year
Brian P. Moran & Michael Lennington · 2013