The Adaptability of Asana vs. OmniFocus
In my short time with Asana, I’ve already found a few things that it handles better than OmniFocus – and I’m talking beyond the whole team collaboration thing here. It all has to do with adaptability.
Parallel / Series
People seem to avoid productivity systems because they don’t like systems. Because systems generally only work when you make sure that every part of it works. So if you’re “doing GTD”, then you need to do every part of it in order for it to be effective. And for GTD to be truly GTD, that
Gratitude…Revisited
I’m taking a page from my wife today. She’s been posting on Facebook for pretty much every day a person for whom she wants to express gratitude towards. She got the idea from one of her friends (or a friend of a friend), and as I was reviewing old post from my old Tumblr blog
Talking is Not Dead
After a month of not recording a Talking is Dead podcast with Anthony Marco, we did so last night. So now I think it’s a monthly podcast. Maybe.
Goodbye Google: Getting Out of Gmail
After removing some of the smaller portions of Google from my Internet life last time, I thought I’d take on something a bit more challenging this time around: Gmail I knew that leaving Gmail was going to be really difficult. In fact, I’d say that it was going to be the hardest of the easiest
Enough – AsanaVaGun
I returned to the fantastic 70Decibels podcast known as Enough (starring Patrick Rhone and Myke Hurley) this week to talk about my recent shift to Asana as my task manager of choice, and then we see how far the three of us can go down the rabbit hole known as productivity apps. We also chat
What is a Productivityist?
Let’s get this part out of the way first: Productivityist isn’t a real word. Well, not yet. My aim is to make it a term that may not ever be completely real, but to make it at least recognizable. But before I get into what the term means, I want to address what it doesn’t mean.
How Packed is My Mac?
The latest episode of Mikes on Mics just went live this morning, featuring our riffing on the popular 70Decibels’ Enough podcast segment known as How Bare is Your Air? – which we have dubbed How Packed is Your Mac? 1 I’m the first victim of this homage to one of the “favouritest” podcasts of yours truly
A New Look at Vardy.me
It was time for a makeover here at Vardy.me. I’ve been using the Thesis theme for what seems like forever, but with the lack of progress on making it more suitable for tablet and mobile viewing, it was time for me to make a change to something that would.1 Enter Genesis. The framework is super-responsive