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Superpowered lets you see your schedule and join meetings from the Mac menu bar

TechCrunch

A newly launched Mac app called Superpowered aims to make it easier to stay on top of all your Zoom calls and Google Meets, without having to scramble to find the meeting link in your inbox or calendar app at the last minute. To use Superpowered, you first download the app then authorize it to access to your Google Calendar.

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Cleary raises $4.5M to reinvent the intranet

TechCrunch

If you’re an employee at Google, if you’re an employee at Uber, if you’re an employee at Dropbox — and the list goes on — there is this bespoke internal tooling ecosystem that is built for the employee base and there’s maybe 80% overlap between them. “We looked at what else was available.

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Still managing engineers remotely? Okay has a performance dashboard for that

TechCrunch

The product can be integrated with a company’s existing tools, including software like Google Calendar, GitHub, PagerDuty and CircleCI. Two years ago , we profiled Okay, an engineering visibility tool helping engineering managers lead effective and engaged teams, which was fresh out of Y Combinator with $2.2

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Workiz locks in $13M for productivity tools aimed at home services professionals

TechCrunch

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. Image: Workiz.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Sound familiar?

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Motion wants to automate task planning using AI

TechCrunch

Qi, who co-launched Motion in 2019 alongside Omid Rooholfada and Ethan Yu, estimates that knowledge workers spend 58% of their day on average coordinating work instead of actually accomplishing it. Motion as it exists today plans which members of a team should do what based on their respective projects and calendars.

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A skeptic’s guide to quitting your smartphone

Recode by Vox

The third generation of the device, which debuted in late March, represents a radical rethinking of what a smartphone can and should do, cutting off users from distracting features while directing them toward simple tools they need to thrive in a digital world, like a phone and a calendar. The Light Phone 3 is intentionally boring but useful.

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