Collaboration

What Great Teams Do Differently (Hint: It’s Not More Meetings)

Rethink meetings and build a healthier team culture. Learn async rituals, trust-based systems, and practical tools for sustainable team productivity.

"How to Work With Me" Manuals: What They Are & Why Every Team Needs One

What is a "how to work with me" document and how do you make one? Here’s the structure, prompts, and pro tips to help teams work better together.

A Quick(ish) Guide to Completing Any Project in Todoist

8 steps to take your next project from concept to completion

The Manager’s Guide to Todoist

Advice for staying productive and doing your best work while leading a team

Why Small Team Collaboration Usually Beats Larger Groups

Small teams work better than larger ones—as long as they're managed effectively

Three Ways to Get Your Team to Think Creatively and Produce the Next Great Idea

These psychological findings will help your team collaborate to produce not just good but truly innovative results

How to Keep Projects on Track with Less Meetings

Spend less time in meetings and more time getting important work done. Get practical tips to reduce meetings while keeping projects moving forward.

The Do’s and Don’ts of Measuring Employee Productivity in the Knowledge Economy

Innovative solutions for measuring what seems immeasurable

Team Rituals: The Small Habits That Build Big Culture

Learn the science behind team rituals and create meaningful ones that make employees feel engaged, valued, and connected.

The Secret to Productive Meetings: How to Run Fewer & More Effective Meetings

Drowning in meetings? Learn how to host more productive meetings where every minute counts.

How To Support Your Employees During a Crisis

Here’s how leaders can set expectations for their team's productivity, support their well-being, and emerge stronger

Deep Work for Social Media Managers

Finding time for focus when your job is staying plugged in

Why It’s So Hard to Focus at Work (Hint: It’s not you, it’s your workplace)

Few companies invest in protecting their most valuable asset — their team’s attention.

If It's Not in Todoist, It Doesn't Exist

How One CTO Simplified His Team's Workflow

Building a Company Handbook

How to Disagree With Your Coworkers Productively

A short, yet effective mental checklist for disagreeing in a way that’s guaranteed to win coworkers’ respect

A Simple Design & Development Workflow for Building Better Apps

How we handle ongoing product QA and platform parity improvements at Doist

This Is How We Manage Projects on a Fully Remote Team

Lessons learned managing cross-functional projects on a team of 60 people spread across 23 countries

Getting Promoted Isn’t the Same as Being a Leader

A promotion is one form of recognition, but it doesn’t make you a leader. Here’s what will…

What To Do When Remote Projects Go Awry

Course correct remote projects when communication and collaboration go wrong...

How to Create Group Norms That Make Your Team Stronger

Excellent team communication is built intentionally. Here’s how.

Should This Meeting Be an Email? A Handy Flowchart to Help You Decide

Meetings aren't bad, they're just wildly overused — and they cost your team more than you may realize

Overcoming Impostor Syndrome as a First-Time Manager

4 pieces of conventional wisdom brand-new managers may be better off ignoring

The Remote Worker’s Guide to “Managing Up”

Actionable steps for making sure "out of sight" doesn't mean "out of mind"

From Personal Planning to Nonprofit Team Harmony

How Sarah Carr Uses Todoist to Keep Her Department Flowing

Stop Fearing Critical Feedback — Fear Not Getting It Instead

“To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

Ask Doist: How Do I Address Employee Performance Issues with Empathy?

A manager wants to know how she can constructively address subpar work from her team

No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?

Practical thoughts from a back-end team lead

How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication

Advice for team leaders and team members who want to bring more calm, focused productivity to the workplace

How to Write For the Way Your Coworkers Actually Read

Steal these data-backed marketing tricks of the trade to improve your memos, emails, messages, and more.

When to Take Real-time Meetings Async

Here's how to decide which meetings can be async threads (and which can't)

How to Keep Your Employees Happy Post-Pandemic

Which workplace perks do employees really care about?