Mike Vardy

The Front Nine: Now in Print

This week Diversion Books released my book, The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want in print. While that doesn’t mean it’s going to turn up in brick and mortar bookstores all over the globe it does mean you can order a good ol’ fashioned paper book direct from Amazon […]

My OmniFocus Setup Talk

The Omni Group has released the remaining talks from The OmniFocus Setup, and mine is included among them. A More Meaningful To Do List from The Omni Group on Vimeo There are also some great talks by Kourosh Dini, David Sparks, and Merlin Mann that were unveiled – as well as the panel discussion that

Projects First, Task Second

I used to focus on individual tasks over the projects — if any — that they were assigned to in my task management system. What happened was I got things done, but things were spread out amongst multiple projects so it took me longer to complete any one project. When you start using a task

The Wish List

I’ve gotten a lot better at not buying the “hot” new apps once they arrive on the scene. App purchases are often impulse buys due to their low monetary cost – but the time cost can be much greater. That’s why I am “wish listing” a lot more of these apps – and there are

A Quick Look at OmniFocus Resources

The Omni Group has released the first set of videos from the talks at January’s OmnFocus Setup event. This first installment features talks from Tim Stringer, Dinah Sanders, and Sven Fechner – as well as the contexts discussion facilitated by Thanh Pham and Michael Schechter (my podcasting partner-in-crime). There’s a lot of great stuff to

Asana Comes to Android

Yesterday Asana arrived for Android, bringing a top-notch task management solution to a market that could really use another entry in the category: Here’s what you can do with the Android version: Add and assign new tasks and edit existing tasks on the go. Add or change due dates, notes, tags, followers, recurring schedules and

Events on the Horizon

As February draws to a close, I’m going to conduct a bit of housekeeping here. This housekeeping revolves around some events I’m going to be at over the next couple of months, some of which I am organizing and some of which I am not. So I’ll get right to it… On Thursday March 14th,

Out of Whack

The reason I review is so that I can make sure I’m not getting out of whack. As inconvenient as it may be to look at where the going is taking you, it’s essential. Reviewing helps to remove friction…even though conducting a review can be a form of friction at first. I’m writing this as

Taking Advantage of Mail Drop

Mail Drop isn’t necessarily a new feature for OmniFocus users, but perhaps the way I have just started using it will be. Or perhaps I should say the way “we” have just started using it. Spurred on by the conversation Michael Schechter and I had with Gentry Underwood (CEO of Orchestra, the developers behind the