New year comes with an opportunity for you to become a more productive, better and happier person by kicking off the resolutions you set to accomplish. Having said that, people who set resolutions never expect themselves to follow through. In fact, 25% of them give up by January 7. Here’s a tip to help you go from making them, to actually keeping them.

It was on a Wednesday morning that I told myself, “This is it. You’ll travel to Hong Kong this Saturday to shop at Apple Store, J. Crew and Lane Crawford in the IFC Mall and be back in one day.” So, I booked the round tickets online on Wednesday, self checked on Friday, and left home with a shoulder bag at exactly 7am on Saturday.

You are the most productive person you know. Your phone is filled with to-do lists and productivity apps. You’re busy all the time. Your appointment calendar barely has an empty spot. If there ever was a picture of someone who is getting things done, it’s you. You’re the poster child for productivity.

I remember in the movie The Imitation Game, after Joan Clarke showed up late for the evaluation that involved solving a difficult crossword puzzle, Allen said to Manzies: “This isn’t about crossword puzzles. It’s about how one approaches solving an impossible problem. Do you take the whole thing at once or divide it into small.

I have a bucket list. I’ve always wanted to learn the guitar and Japanese, backpack in Europe, go bungee jumping, and publish a book. However, it seems I can always find excuses to postpone them: I don’t have the time, I don’t have enough money, I don’t know where to begin, etc....

Even though we’re already simple enough and you’re surely smart enough, here’s a real basic guide of Quire. Task: A task is the basic unit of action in Quire.

A native mobile app is what many users have been asking us about and something we are busy working on. Quire may only be desktop based, but it works great on smartphone or tablet’s browser as well. Here is a way to quickly access Quire whenever and wherever you want: add it to your iOS and Android devices’ home screen.

Sometimes, when you are working on a project, you only want to focus on tasks that are of the uttermost importance to you at the moment, like see the ones you are responsible for, or the ones that are marked urgent.

Here is something useful for those of you who need outside help, like freelancers, to help you complete a task in your project: You can now easily (and safely) outsource the task with Quire’s new feature “external team.”

Let’s face it, we all need a little help now and then, even if it is from someone we hardly know. In reality, there is not just you and me. There is also them. Yes, we can survive on our own, but there will definitely be times when we need other people’s help, especially with something we cannot handle, whether it is at work or at home.

For some of you, it is difficult enough to keep everyone up to date with the tasks at hand. It is even more so when they involve codes. Lots of codes. But not to worry, Quire has got it covered.

It is common for people to create a template of an email message they will often use, so they will not need to write up everything again the next time, or the next. On Quire, we let you do the same with projects and tasks.

Sometimes, users would like to focus on only one task and its subtasks on Quire, especially when they have a long task list and want to hide all the other tasks from the screen. This is when the “drill down” feature comes in handy.

You may have heard of Markdown. If you have, it is a good thing. It can create rich texts, like in Microsoft Word, easily and quickly.

I’m a lazy person (let’s be honest here, who isn’t). Though my parents keep telling me ever since I turned 18 that it’s a very bad habit, I’m confident that it’s the key to a better life, and a better future.