Mike Vardy

OmniFocused: A Look Back at The OmniFocus Setup

This past Thursday I was privileged to be a part of The OmniFocus Setup, an event presented by The Omni Group that served to not only introduce its latest iteration of OmniFocus – OmniFocus 2 for Mac – but also to help current OmniFocus users get more out of what they’re currently using (namely the […]

The Freedom of Knowing

I’ve spent very little time in my task manager this week. It’s not that I didn’t have things to do – this thing you’re reading is one of those things, actually – but because I knew what I was going to have to do during my time away I had the ability to simply do

Almost

I think about words a lot. As a writer, this really shouldn’t come as surprise to most. But when I think about words, I think about more than just their general definition. I think about what they mean when coming from the person that’s delivering them. Take the word “almost”, for example. Almost coming from

iOS Only

I’ve left my trusty MacBook Air at home for the first time ever while traveling. It wasn’t an easy decision, but it wasn’t as difficult to make as I’d thought. Why? Because I’d completed all of the work through Monday that absolutely required me to have an OS X machine. I can do a great

How an Editor Makes for More Productive Online Writing

When I was an editor, my goal was to make whatever a writer had submitted better and yet still maintain the voice and tone of the original work. As an editor I also wrote pieces, but they were (for the most part) edited as well by someone else in order to improve the original work

The Pros and Cons of Using a Collaborative Task Manager

Those who have been reading this site for a while know that I use two task managers for the work I do: one is for individual task management (OmniFocus) and the other is for collaborative efforts (Asana).1 I gave Asana a real shot for both, but the power and allure of OmniFocus kept bringing me

The First 11 Books on The 2013 Productivityist.com Reading List

During this past month I’ve assembled a list of books that I’m going to be reading over the next year. I’ve already made my way through two books since 2013 began, and they are as follows: Coffee Shop Contemplations by Nick Wynja OmniFocus Premium Posts by Asian Efficiency Both of these books cater to the

A To-Do List Isn’t Enough

A to-do list is generally made up of single tasks – tasks that come and go, depending on the day. Some make appearances on the list more often than others, and some should never show up there in the first place. We all have to-do lists, but simply having one and using it isn’t enough.

Hacking Lifehacks

Over the past day or so I’ve exchanged a few tweets with Clewless that alludes to a post I’d written about Lifehacker over a year ago. Even with the additions of the “How I Work” series and an increase in content that I’m enjoying up until the beginning of this month, they still publish material