Mike Vardy

Get Gifting Done with Evernote

While I’ve abandoned going all in with Evernote, there are certain things that I’m finding it does really, really well. Like keeping shopping lists. It does an especially great job in helping me keep tabs on shopping lists of the holiday variety. I have been able to keep track of all of the possible gift […]

Getting Better Done

The book is almost done. Just polishing off the final edits. Then I’ll have a release date. The inbox is almost at zero, but I’ve been doing the work that now lives outside the inbox far more than the stuff arriving in it. The steady flow of work is happening, and I’m getting closer to

The 2012 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

We’re almost two weeks away from Christmas, and now’s the time where we’re racking our brains trying to figure out what to get that particular person that’s on your list who is difficult to shop for each and every year. Well, if this person is a productivityist — or at least needs to look at

Procrastination and Decompressing

Today the latest episode of Mikes on Mics was released, and it features a conversation that Michael Schechter and I had with The incredibly prolific Brett Terpstra. Brett’s the man behind Marked, nvAlt, and put together one doozy of an iOS text editor comparison sheet that you really must read. One of the things that

Mike Techniques: A Productive Pairing

I really want to do something different around here. I’ve started to do just that, and today I’m adding even more to the mix. I’m also subtracting something, but what I’m adding in is going to make the mixture even better. You see, I’m embarking on another collaboration with my Mikes on Mics co-host, Michael

It’s True: Amazing Things Will Happen

I just finished reading C.C. Chapman’s latest book, Amazing Things Will Happen, and I feel as if the book was not only meant for someone like me, but it seemingly chronicled a lot of what I went through to get to where I am today. Sure, my life story doesn’t read exactly the same as

Everything in Evernote: All Out

Today I’d like to discuss the initial results of my Everything in Evernote experiment. In short: It has not gone well. Or it has gone exceedingly well…depending on your point of view. The problem isn’t with Evernote, though. The problem is trying to use Evernote for so much more than what it really is for.

A Productivity Podcast Revisited

Today is the Canadian National Day of Podcasting, so in recognition of that I’ve gone and done something with today’s post that was inspired by something that fellow 70Decibels host Stephen Hackett did over at his blog: I’m presenting the entire history of my retired solo podcast ProductiVardy. Below you’ll find all of the episodes

Amazing Things Have Happened

This week on Mikes on Mics, we had C.C. Chapman on the show. We discussed a whole bunch of stuff because, well…C.C. does a whole bunch of stuff — including authoring books. His latest book, Amazing Things Will Happen, is available now and while I’ve only started to make my way through it, what I’ve