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Sean Percival

HOLD X - Productivity superpowers: planner, blocker, and motivator.

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HOLD X is a ‘personal productivity trainer’ that will motivate you to plan your day, execute with ninja-like focus, and provide actionable insights to peak your productivity.
Do you have your own personal productivity hack to share?? let the Makers know👇

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Maths Mathisen
Maker
Thanks, @percival1 for hunting! Hey, PH-community! My co-founder and I created HOLD to help us focus while at University. It was dead simple: Get real-world rewards and discounts for not using your phone. Now, 4 years later, we’ve helped more than 650,000 students to focus and achieve their academic goals. Now that we’re ‘knowledge workers’ (read: adults), simply blocking distractions on the phone doesn’t cut it. Work happens primarily on the computer. Unfortunately, this also where multitasking heaven (read: hell) and attention hijacking rabbit holes exist (read: Reddit, YouTube you know the drill). We’re losing 40% of our productive time on multitasking and up to 2 hours a workday is sacrificed to distractions. We’ve had countless days where we felt we’re working hard but weren’t achieving our top priorities. It left us feeling deflated and unfulfilled. That’s why we’re creating HOLD X, a ‘personal productivity trainer’ that will motivate you to plan your day, execute with ninja-focus, and provide actionable insights to increase your productivity. We believe the ability to use our time deliberately and give our full focus and attention is key for productivity and wellbeing. Unfortunately, big(evil) tech companies are working overtime to achieve the opposite. Our goal is to empower people to focus on and achieve their goals. Effortlessly. We hope you'll give HOLD a try and let us know what you think! PS: The tool is free to use for now but sometime in the future, we’ll introduce a subscription pricing model.
Sean Percival
Hunter
Let’s face it, constant context switching is killing your productivity. This problem has only increased as of late with so much remote work and of course the endless video meetings. So.many.video.meetings. This is why I really like what the HOLD team has built here. I’ve been testing their new Chrome extension this week and it has been a huge help keeping me focused on the most important tasks of the day. I’m curious how the PH community has been staying productive during these challenging times? Let me know in the comments or, if you give HOLD X a try I’m sure the makers would appreciate your feedback as well.
Tristan Pollock
@percival1 anything you use, i will use 👁
Anders Holm
Brilliant experience personally! It makes you complete tasks and getting things done. As simple and powerful as that!
Maths Mathisen
Maker
Great to hear @hnders_holm. Out of curiosity, How are you structuring your tasks? An infinite list or some few prioritised ones?
Anders Holm
Absolutely @maths_mathisen ! I would normally add 'some few prioritised tasks'. Which in my case would be the main tasks I have planned for the day. If I have been more productive than planned one day (which often has happened while testing Hold X), I would add the second most important tasks :)
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@hnders_holm Thanks for sharing. I think the most important is to find time to both plan and review your day. Seems like you have it all figured it out - or maybe we can thank HOLD X for that ;)
Anders Holm
@maths_mathisen I totally agree! Thanks for sharing your inputs as well. We should fo sure thank Hold X for that! Could I ask though, if you have developed any best practices of use yet? Or how would you recommend to get the most out of Hold X?
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@hnders_holm Sure thing. The idea behind HOLD X is to get industry experts and productivity coaches to help us put the best and personalised practises to each user. We're still far away from being able to automate this, but we're getting there. With that in mind, we've gotten involved into several different schools of productivity. Personally, I'm combining the Ivy Lee, Eat The Frog and Pomodoro strategies when planning and acting on the day. With Ivy Lee you can add anything between 3-5 priorities per day. With Eat The frog you start with the hardest task per day and work you way through one at a time, while I work on 50 minutes + 10 minutes break cycles. With that I also time box my day and can easily review my progress at the end of the day and can plan the next day.
Bendik Heiberg
A perfect tool to keep you from procrastinating and focus on the tasks you were supposed to do.
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@pixelcollector Thanks for your kind words! We will aim to make it even better for you in the coming months!
Nicholas Oliver
@maths_mathisen such a great idea to use the same technology that normally distracts people, to actually help them focus. Really like this.
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@nicholas_oliver Thats very much true. We believe that we can align the technology with humans best interest. Instead of profiting on your attention we want to help you control it and have time to achieve your goals. Would love to hear your thoughts on how this best can be done, based on your current role.
Tom Erik Støwer
Hey guys, great product! HOLD X actually stopped me from going here to upvote you :D
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@tomeriks Task failed successfully 😅 Great to hear, Tom!
Amira Mansour
That's quite cool! I love the design and of course the concept. Congrats 👏
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@sansa Thanks for the positive feedback! My colleagues, and especially @andy_barnes_design is the ones to blame to for the nice design!
Ray Sidney-Smith
I'm really impressed with the team at Hold, and I think they have a solid app that will keep getting better at helping students and professionals gain greater focus. Keep up the great work, Maths and Vinoth!
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@raymond_sidney_smith Huge thanks, Ray🙏 You're feedback has been super helpful so far!
Samuel Salzer
Love the idea behind HOLD and it's 100% what I feel like the world needs!
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@samuel_salzer Thank you for your kind words 🙏
Jonathan Mylvaganam
I've been testing Hold X for a while and its a really easy way to "park" incoming tasks and to keep focus on the ongoing task. Love the timeboxing-concept and their timer-tool helps me with my "powersessions". Try it out!
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@jonathanmyl Thank you for testing Hold X since its inception and your valuable feedback so far🙏
Didrik Dimmen
An important step towards solving another pandemic of this world: task switching and procrastination. Looking forward to see this grow!
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@didrik_dimmen Thank you! Hopefully, we could be a part of solving those challenges in a easy and engaging way 🙏
Maiuran Loganathan
Amazing product! Been using it for a while now and the triggers and ui is so attuned to optimize flow :D Thanks a lot guys!
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@maiuran_loganathan1 Huge thanks 🙌 Great to hear that you enjoy using our product!
Alex Hsi
A great tool to keep you away from procrastination by helping you to stay focused on the most important tasks. Test out the tool (Chrome extension), but also their app named HOLD. Keep up with the good work!
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@alexhsi_1 Thanks for you kind words. Good to hear that you are enjoying HOLD X.
Viljar Rystad
I love it!
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@viljar_rystad Good to hear! Feel free to share some feedback directly here or to my email maths@hold.app
Andrew 💥
Cool product, love to see some new competition in this space
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@the_andriy_bond Thank you and we couldn't agree more. There's an army of companies working 24/7 to hijack our attention and monetize on it - negatively impacting our productivity and wellbeing. We're glad to see that there is an increasing number of companies and thought leaders coming into this space, ultimately pushing forward to realign tech use with personal interest.
Mika Melchanka
Quite useful product especially now, when we're working from home and have plenty of distractions
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@mikalai_melchanka Thank you 🙏 It's definitely harder to manage our internal and external distractions while working from home.
Francois Marmion
Great product and very imaginative team!
Vinoth Vinaya
Maker
@francois_marmion Thanks 🙌
Marianne Bratt Ricketts
YEY! Super useful tool for keeping focus - which is THE most important factor in maintaining speed and momentum. 🙌
Maths Mathisen
Maker
Thanks @marianne_bratt_ricketts1 for the positive feedback. Hope the coming updates will even increase your pace and momentum 🚀
Henning Sillerud
Congrats on the launch! Looking forward to see how it works for me :)
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@henningsillerud Great to hear! Let us know how HOLD X works for you. We would love to get your thoughts on how a personal productivity trainer should be working for you.
André Kraemer Góes
It has brought effectiveness to the idea of reducing distractions and keeping focus.
Maths Mathisen
Maker
@andregoes thanks for your support. Hope to keep you laser focused in the coming years :)