Tutorials

A selection of the best pixelart ressources currated with love to help you practice and progress. Have fun!

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A simple pixelart tutorial

Some basics about pixelart principles. Not the best design but very useful

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Building Habits That Actually Stick

Explores the science of habit loops and gives you three concrete techniques for turning intentions into routines.

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Running Better Weekly Reviews

A repeatable reflection ritual that keeps you aligned on priorities and helps small teams stay in sync without long meetings.

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Writing Clearly Under Pressure

Practical editing strategies for getting your ideas across quickly — useful for emails, reports, and any writing that needs to land fast.

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Writing Clearly Under Pressure

Practical editing strategies for getting your ideas across quickly — useful for emails, reports, and any writing that needs to land fast.

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Tools

Apps, spreadsheets, and utilities we've vetted and genuinely use — each one picked for being approachable, not just powerful.

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Notion — Your All-in-One Workspace

Notes, databases, wikis, and project boards in one place. The free plan is generous and the learning curve is gentler than it looks.

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Reclaim.ai — Smart Calendar Blocking

Automatically protects time for your priorities by blocking focus sessions, breaks, and recurring tasks around your meetings.

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iA Writer — Focus Mode for Writers

A distraction-free writing environment with a signature typeface and a minimal interface designed to keep you in flow.

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Airtable — Spreadsheets with Superpowers

Combines the familiarity of a spreadsheet with the structure of a database — ideal for tracking anything from content calendars to inventories.

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Assets

Editable starting points so you never stare at a blank page — each template is structured but flexible, ready for your context.

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Weekly Planner & Priority Tracker

A clean weekly layout with space for three top priorities, time blocks, and a Friday reflection — available as PDF and Google Doc.

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Project Kickoff Brief

Captures goals, stakeholders, scope, timeline, and open questions in a single page — shareable with your team before day one.

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Annual Goals & Milestones Sheet

Map your year across six life areas with quarterly milestones and monthly check-ins — structured enough to follow, flexible enough to be yours.

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Meeting Notes with Action Items

A structured notes format with sections for context, decisions, and a clear action-item table — so nothing gets lost after the call ends.

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Artists

Books, articles, and long reads that have shaped how we think about work, creativity, and living well — all genuinely recommended.

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Deep Work — Cal Newport

A compelling case for cultivating focused, distraction-free work sessions — and a practical framework for building the discipline to do it consistently.

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Atomic Habits — James Clear

The most practical book on behavior change we've found — breaks down exactly how small improvements compound into remarkable long-term results.

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The Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

Paul Graham's classic essay on why meetings are so destructive to creative work — and how to structure your day around the kind of thinking your work demands.

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The Artist's Way — Julia Cameron

A 12-week course in rediscovering creativity — especially valuable if you feel stuck, blocked, or disconnected from the work that once felt meaningful to you.

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