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Getting things done with ADHD | Woken, May 29, 2024
7 tools to help block tech distractions | Fast Company, April 29, 2024
The Perks of Virtual Coworking With Strangers | reasons to be cheerful, March 15, 2024
Is Virtual Coworking the Future for WFH Product Managers? | The Product Manager, November 28, 2023
4 Tools That Can Help Gig Workers Level Up Their Business | Motley Fool, November 1, 2023
The Loneliness Economy: How can technology help us belong? | Hugo Amsellem, September 27, 2023
Top 13 Virtual Coworking Spaces For Teams To Collaborate in 2023 | Sorry, I was on mute, August 24, 2023
5 Online Work Gyms to Boost Your Productivity | Make Use Of, July 20, 2023
The New Trick to Getting Work Done: Have a Stranger Watch You | The Wall Street Journal, July 12, 2023
Boosting Productivity and Well-Being with Focusmate: An Interview with Founder & CEO Taylor Jacobson | Website Planet, March 30, 2023
The benefits of ‘body doubling’ when you have ADHD, according to experts | CNN Health, February 13, 2023
Best Productivity Tools: 6 That Stuck With Me | Nir and Far, September 14, 2022
Taylor Jacobson, Founder of Focusmate | Idea Mensch, July 28, 2022
Lavorare da casa, ma osservati | Il Post, July 27, 2022
Would You Pay $40 a Month to Have Strangers Watch You Work? | The New York Times, July 15, 2022
#1 Lifehack for Max Productivity with Taylor Jacobson of Focusmate | Breakthrough Marketing Secrets, May 5, 2022
The counterintuitive secret factor that highly productive people rely on | Fast Company, February 23, 2022
Eleven strangers watched me write this article. Is this the answer to our productivity crisis? | The Guardian, February 18, 2022
Top 13 Tips for Staying Accountable to Your Career Goals | Woken, February 17, 2022
Tools to Find Focus and Accountability with Taylor Jacobson | The One You Feed Podcast, February 4, 2022
Improve Your Focus by Grounding Your Nervous System | Bring Back Focus, January 14, 2022
How Focusmate Uses A Facebook Group To Grow Their Business And Perfect Their Product | Facebook Group Secrets, November 1, 2021
Seven Companies Shaping the Future of Remote Work | The Org, September 2, 2021
WHAT THE TECH? YouTube, other apps provide virtual study buddy | WRCBtv, August 25, 2021
Hurra, in meinem Homeoffice sitzt ein fremder Mann mit Mütze | Spiegel, June 9, 2021
Having trouble focusing? This service pairs you with a remote work buddy | Fast Company, June 2, 2021
Distraction-free productivity | Mixergy, May 24, 2021
2021 Remote Work Software Market Map | Friday App, April 30, 2021
DDJ #04: Focusmate | The Digital Disruption Journal, April 12, 2021
The Get Stuff Done Episode w/ Focusmate Founder Taylor Jacobson | Faster Than Normal Podcast, March 31, 2021
Are you procrastinating more? Blame the pandemic. | National Geographic, March 3, 2021
Had enough of online learning? These online tools might help | NBC NewsCenter Maine, February 26, 2021
The video call apps linking home workers with strangers | BBC, February 21, 2021
Working with strangers: How Focusmate says it increases productivity and accountability for remote workers | First Page Strategy, February 12, 2021
Online Work Clubs Can Help You Get Stuff Done | Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 9, 2021
Mastering the Pomodoro Technique | Bloomberg BusinessWeek, February 5, 2021
The Ultimate List of Best Productivity Tools For Developers | Ideamotive, February 3, 2021
How to Stay Motivated When You’re (Still) Stuck at Home | Harvard Business Review, January 25, 2021
Short Life Lessons From Taylor Jacobson | WorldClassPerformer.com, January 15, 2021
Focusmate Review | Terry Godier, January 12, 2021
Names With Stories: The story behind Focusmate.com | Smart Branding, December, 2020
People are hiring productivity nannies to watch them work | Wired, December 15, 2020
Productivity Tips and Tools You Should Try Before Hiring a Productivity Coach | Matt East & Company, December 15, 2020
The Future of Work: Enablers of the Remote Revolution | Omnipresent, December 14, 2020
How to Find a Free Accountability Partner With Focusmate | Make Use Of, November 3, 2020
50 HR Software solutions you should know in 2021 | Monterail, October 19, 2020
7 Remote working tools for ultimate focus, motivation & productivity | Craft.io, October 8, 2020
Here’s how to stay productive — and connected — when you work from home | NBC News, October 7, 2020
Finding Focus While Working From Home | WKNY, October 6, 2020
The Essentials, Issue #69: Cookie jar | Morning Brew, October 1, 2020
I Tried Three Popular Productivity Methods and This is What I Learned | Harvard Business Review, September 28, 2020
20+ Extraordinary Apps for Remote Teams | HackerNoon, September 16, 2020
Remote Work Tools: The Complete List (2020) | Build Remotely, September 14, 2020
How leaders can learn to embrace (and thrive in) uncertainty | CEO World, September 10, 2020
Six Essential Tools for Your Remote Toolkit | Associations Now, August 20, 2020
The online ‘work gyms’ that help spur productivity | BBC, August 12, 2020
Remote Working Tools To Manage Your Teams From Anywhere | StoryXpress, July 22, 2020
The Best Apps to Keep You on Track | Bloomberg Businessweek, May 22, 2020
Show but don’t tell: why silent Zooms are golden for focusing the mind | The Guardian, April 26, 2020
Moeite met werken vanuit huis? Met deze apps wordt het een stuk makkelijker om geconcentreerd aan de slag te gaan | Business Insider, April 15, 2020
The key to productivity is distinguishing ‘habits’ from ‘routine’ | The Next Web, April 10, 2020
What the Tech? Connected in isolation | WFMZ TV, April 8, 2020
6 tools that are more powerful than to-do lists for productivity | FastCompany, April 2, 2020
5 ways to learn new career skills for free during the COVID-19 crisis | FastCompany, March 27, 2020
Struggling to focus at home? You’re not alone | Times Higher Education, March 25, 2020
31 Important Things to Do to Make the Best Use of Your Time During a Pandemic | Forest.Co, March 19, 2020
13 ways to own working at home, including Birmingham’s Social Distancing Festival | Bham Now, March 13, 2020
How to combat loneliness when you’re stuck working at home | Quartz, March 12, 2020
Apps to help you work from home | NBC News Center Maine, March 11, 2020
How to stay sane when working from home: 4 practical tips from a professional | Digital Trends, March 11, 2020
Tricks and tools for better working from home | BBC News, March 10, 2020
31 Important Things You Should Say ‘No’ to for a Happier Life | Forge, February 19, 2020
A startup que promove um “Big Brother” para aumentar produtividade no trabalho | NeoFeed, February 6, 2020
Startups Bet That Lonely Freelancers Crave Company | Bloomberg Businessweek, January 23, 2020
Adjusting Your Focus with Taylor Jacobson: Episode 099 | Worth It Podcast, January 14, 2020
Procrastinating hard on something? Hire a ‘babysitter’ to hold you accountable | The Hustle, December 6, 2019
Focusmate : l’outil un peu creepy qui veut éradiquer la procrastination | L’ADN, December 6, 2019
The Service That Makes Shame a Productivity Hack | The New Yorker, December 2, 2019
Taylor Jacobson Shares How Focusmate’s Virtual Coworking Creates Distraction-Free Productivity | Ambition Today, November 27, 2019
I Saw the Gig Economy’s Bleak Future During a 96-Hour Work Marathon | VICE, November 8, 2019
The Life Changing Magic of Slaying Distraction | Inc Magazine, October 24, 2019
It is your own fault if you get hooked on technology | Financial Times, October 20, 2019
Nir Eyal on how to beat tech addiction: ‘We need a new skill set’ | The Guardian, October 12, 2019
Here’s how to stay productive – and connected – when you work from home | NBC News, October 7, 2019
Cool Tools Show 194, David Moldawer | KK.org, October 4, 2019
Student subscriptions: What services and apps SFU students are using their little money on | The Peak, October 2, 2019
13 essential tips for business travel (from the experts) | The Ladders, September 27, 2019
The Ultimate List: 75+ HR Tech Software Tools for Your Business | Monterail, September 20, 2019
Can This On-Line Productivity App Help Reduce Depression? | Psychology Today, September 4, 2019
3 simple ways to make yourself more accountable | A Life of Productivity, August 13, 2019
Self-hypnosis, amphetamines? I tried eight hacks in my quest to be more productive | The Guardian, August 5, 2019
Staying Focused and Getting Things Done with Taylor Jacobson | Tug of War with Time, June 14, 2019
The 10 best productivity apps out there | A Life of Productivity, June 4, 2019
How to upgrade productivity with accountability | Life Self Mastery, May 23, 2019
Issue 228: Work From Home, But Not Alone | Smashing Magazine, April 30, 2019
Dense Discovery: Apps & Sites | Dense Discovery, April 15, 2019
Я позволила незнакомцу наблюдать за моей работой по веб-камере и справилась с прокрастинацией | VC.ru, April 15, 2019
Polémica aplicación controla la productividad laboral con cámaras y chats | El Observador, April 9, 2019
Smarter Living: Tip of the Week | New York Times, April 7, 2019
I Let A Stranger Watch Me Work For A Day — And I’ve Never Been More Productive | MEL Magazine, April 5, 2019
Productivity Tool Helps Procrastinators Working From Home Stay On Task | NPR Morning Edition, January 31, 2019
Yabancılarla beraber üretkenliğinizi artırmayı hedefleyen girişim: Focusmate | Webrazzi, January 28, 2019
Procrastinating? A stranger watching you might help | The Boston Globe, January 30, 2019
The Right Way to Thrive in the Gig Economy | The HR Digest, January 30, 2019
Distracted Coach Creates Accountability Software | Side Hustle School, January 21, 2019
Taylor Jacobson: Developing Focus As A Super Power | Join Up Dots Podcast, January 21, 2019
Does Your Startup Actually Need Office Space? | Crunchbase, January 11, 2019
Make the most of it! 8 brilliant tools to boost your productivity | Angry Nerds, January 10, 2019
Risk of ‘disgusting habits’ when you’re working from home | The Australian, January 10, 2019
Working from home? Let a stranger keep an eye on you | The Times, December 28, 2018
Focusmate: por qué permito que extraños me espíen por webcam cuando estoy en casa | La Prensa, December 27, 2018
The Emma Barnett Show [Segment Starts 2:43:27] | BBC Radio 5, December 27, 2018
Focusmate: Watched over while I work from home | BBC News, December 27, 2018
Clickmas Special | BBC Click, December 22, 2018
Superheroes: Taylor Jacobson, Focusmate | Republic Journal, December 19, 2018
#115 Digital Accountability with Taylor Jacobson | Digital Mindfulness, December 10, 2018
7 Things to Do at Night to Make Your Morning Workout Easier | MyFitnessPal Blog, November 14, 2018
Upgrading Your Productivity through Accountability with Focusmate’s Taylor Jacobson | How to be Awesome at Your Job, November 9, 2018
The Tao of Content Productivity | George Kao, September 18, 2018
Free website offers unusual tactics to work harder in less time | EXAME, September 5, 2018
6 Productivity Tips for Work-at-Home Parents, Straight From the Experts | The Muse, August 2018
25 best book writing apps and software for authors | CreativIndie, August 2018
Stop Procrastinating, Start Producing | Find Focus Podcast, July 30, 2018
Stay Focused on a Project By Working With a Virtual Coworker | Lifehacker, May 20, 2018
Joyful Productivity: A Solopreneur’s Guide To Creativity & Well-Being by George Kao | March, 2018
Your Morning Routine Matters—Set Yourself Up For Success | ThriveWorks, March 2, 2018
20 Ways to Get Shit Done | That Hummingbird Life, February 10, 2018
These 10 Experts Share Their Predictions For NYC Tech In 2018 | AlleyWatch, January, 2018
8 Insanely Busy People Reveal the #1 Way They Stop Procrastinating | Men’s Health, January 4, 2018
When Is the Right Time to Bring on a Business Partner? | LivePlan, October 20, 2017
6 Creative Virtual Team Building Activities For Remote Teams | Museum Hack, October 13, 2017
15 Life-Changing Hacks To Do At The Beginning Of Each Month | Bustle, September 14 2017
Focusmate – Can This Simple Tool Double Your Productivity? [Review] | Never Productive, July 4, 2017