Office Productivity

If Your Company Uses Google Workspace, You Must Try This Productivity System

Increase your credibility at work by never forgetting any task or follow-up action items.

Irtiza Hafiz
5 min readDec 26, 2022

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If you want to succeed professionally, you need to have a good productivity system. Depending on your profession, you might need a comprehensive one, or a simple one might suffice.

When I was strictly a software engineer, I didn’t need a comprehensive one. My weeks used to be planned beforehand, so I just put all my tasks on ClickUp, and I was good to go.

However, since I transitioned to an Engineering Manager role, my workflow totally changed. Countless things come up every day that I either need to get done, talk to people about, or follow up on later.

The number of meetings I have is almost 10x the amount I had as a software engineer. That required me to have a system that tracks all my meeting notes and aggregates all action items.

Similarly, the transition to the job also meant a huge influx of emails that require my attention. Again, I needed a good system to turn emails into tasks.

Let me walk you through how I settled into a system that has been working really well for the past…

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Irtiza Hafiz

Engineering manager who writes about software development and productivity https://irtizahafiz.com