The Digital Efficiency Framework

It’s 10:30 Monday morning and you now have 742 unread emails in your inbox. You have three notes you scratched in your notebook, your boss just asked for a few things, and you have no idea what’s in your Evernote anymore. Things are a mess.

Digital tools are great. Never in our history have we had access to so much knowledge, as well as so much access to one another. The consequence is that we are becoming overwhelmed with our digital workload.

As much as I love digital tools, getting out of them is the key. If you can ever finish your digital work for the day, you can then use that time for more valuable offline thinking, time with your family, time for hobbies, or whatever else needs to be done.

My goal with this framework is to help you escape your digital prison, while separating the content from the tools. You’ll hear me talking about things like “consumption lists” and “reference data” in an effort to keep things clean. However, I know that people love to hear about new tools so I’ve included a list of my favorite tools for each area at the end.

Information about this framework, including this post, can always be found at DEFramework.com.

The three parts

The framework ultimately consists of just three areas: