I've been trying to be very careful in designing MakeTimeFlow to be a useful tool with your personal suite of high performance tools. Most of us who have already been leaning into high performance for some time will have some tools that work really well for us. This is great - keep using them. But almost all of us will have some that don't work (but we usually have to use them) or work well at something but are effortful for us to use. A reality for us all now is that we have lots of places where work and tasks accumulate. This was actually always true ever since we could and wanted to communicate and work with others. In our connected, information rich world, the number of ways for people, and process, to assign us work has increased tremendously. The Zeigernik effect is named for the researcher who did some of the first work showing that tasks that you "keep" in your head only can decrease your cognitive performance. I haven't seen data on it, but have experienced this personally, that this seems to apply even if it's not a task that I am keeping in my head, but a "new inbox" that *could be filling up with tasks* that can distract me. Today I just launched on production the first of our integrations designed to help reduce this for all of us, and to level up MakeTimeFlow from a personal task trust system toward a real high performance (but centered on your flourishing) *workload assistant*. ![[Flow Integrations 202503.png]] We have our first deep tasking integration with [Basecamp](https://basecamp.com). When you connect to your basecamp account from within MakeTimeFlow, you will now be able to see all the tasks assigned to you, and you can then decide 1. when or if you will take it on - Today, Next or Later, or 2. it will help you to gracefully delegate it, or 3. help you to gracefully decline it 4. (and of course you can delete it, if it's really no longer relevant) 2 and 3 are important "good team member" tools that I see people not doing often enough, resulting in real challenges in working together effectively. This is because of a design flaw in most team tasking systems - just assigning something is not the same as someone taking it on. We can help do this better for most tools now. Once you have taken on a todo from the other system, it will not appear in your flow trust system. Updates you make will be seamlessly synced back to the server, and once you've completed it, just complete your flow task, and the integrated system will be updated! ## Key takeaways 1. If you are a basecamp user, try out the integration! Let me know how it goes 2. This is the start of leveling up MakeTimeFlow from just a personal task trust system to a powerful workload assistant, able to pull in tasks, and help you think about and plan all that you need to do (and won't do) from various sources, giving you a fluid, unified view 3. Better awareness, less worry, more doing, less copying/updating, better team work 4. Let me know which would be the next most powerful integration by requesting it int the integrations page