One of the hardest things is to stay productive, while having a kid. Especially, a young kid.

Some thoughts:

First of all, Siri voice dictation and commands. Practice saying “Hey Siri”— “take a note”, etc.

Also, use an iPhone mini or an iPhone SE. When you got a kid, you will never have both hands free. Therefore, a phone you can comfortably use with one hand in the future.

Also, set up your iPhone keyboard in the one-handed mode.

Sleep when your kid sleeps

The best piece of advice I got is this: sleep when your kids sleep. Sleep when your kid goes to sleep in the evening, and also nap when your kid naps. The number one key to productivity is sleep.

The worst thing to do is try to be “productive“ when your kid is sleeping or napping. Do not be a fool. Sleep more, become more productive.

Innovate your work

Nowadays, I never touch my laptop. All the work I either do it on my phone or my iPad.

Ironically enough, one of the greatest things of having a kid is that it forces you to be more clever and innovative with your work approaches, out of pure necessity. For example, I discovered using voice dictation instead of typing— both on my phone, and the iPad, and it works insanely well.

Filter your priorities

Also one of the greatest benefits of having a kid is that because your time and physiological energy becomes sol limited, it becomes a natural filter. For example, a natural filter of your relationships, and what you do. Once you become a parent, the wisest thing to do is to renounce many things. To leave many things undone.

Therefore, with productivity, it isn’t to do more, it is to ruthlessly prune and cut out all the superfluous things in your life, and instead, to channel all of your energy into things which really really really really matter to you.