Mike Vardy

The NOW Year is Now Here

NOW is the time. The NOW Year: A Practical Guide to Calendar Management has just been released and is available at the Productivityist Store. The initial release is in PDF format only, with future updates to include EPUB and Kindle formats. So if you have already bought it or plan to buy it, rest assured […]

The Build A Better Workflow Series: Apps and Services

Over the month of November I’ll be writing a weekly post as part of a series I’m dubbing Build A Better Workflow. The first installment is going to focus on apps and services you can add to the equation to help you make a workflow that is better for you. I talked about a lot

How I Built My CreativeLive Course in Evernote

Some of you may have taken my CreativeLive course – Time Management 101: Prioritize the Right Things – and for that I thank you. The process of building and delivering the course was an experience I’ll never forget. In this post I’m going to share with you how I built my CreativeLive course in one of my workflow apps of choice…Evernote.

Trick and Treat: The New 1Password Emergency Kit

Update: There is a new version of The 1Password Emergency Kit. Visit this post for more details. It’s Halloween, so I figured that I’d offer you both a trick and a treat today with the release of an updated version of my popular 1Password Emergency Kit. Now if you’re not using 1Password already, you should

A Look at Task Management Tools for Teams

A couple of weeks back I spoke to a local contingent of budding “productivityists” about team task management at Q College. During my creativeLIVE workshop later this week, I’ll be doing it again. But before I do that, I thought I’d offer Productivityist readers a closer look at some of the team task management solutions

The Real Magic: Living The Ideal Week

I’m busy in travel mode for creativeLIVE today. So, I’ve got another guest post lined up for your reading pleasure. Paul Smith is a writer. He’s very interested in relationships, psychology, and traveling. You can find Paul on Google+ and on AskEssay There are lots of tools and activities about self-development that are worth doing.

Productivity as a Process

This is a guest post by David Wyndham. David is President and co-owner of Conklin & de Decker, an aviation data and consulting firm in Orleans, Massachusetts. He is married to the woman of his dreams for almost 30 years, and owns two dogs: Briards. David and his wife compete in Agility with them and

Why You Need to Get to Know Tags

  OS X Mavericks now features the use of “tags” within the entire operating system. Tags have long been used within apps — especially task management applications like Asana — to help with searching and to add context to action items. With Evernote and several email apps also using tags extensively, those who’ve spent some

A Look at Less Meeting

I’m not a fan of meetings. I know they’re essential, but they often become big time-wasters for everyone involved. I am, however, a big fan of apps that do one thing really well, and especially apps that do that and can scale up or down in the process. Less Meeting has helped me deal with