Review – BusyContacts for OS X
They gave us an alternative to the Calendar application with BusyCal, now those talented individuals at BusyMac have only gone and cracked it again with the release of BusyContacts.
Choose Your Conventions Wisely
Conventions are all around us. Conventions will guide our actions and rather than not choose any conventions, we can choose conventions to guide us in the right direction. Good conventions will eliminate a choice and bring focus to one thing.
How Preparing For Vacation Can Lead To A Proactive Life
My Small Sabbaticals set the tone for all of these things initially, but this vacation preparation – knowing I’ll be away for two weeks – took everything to a whole new level. And it’s a level I plan to stay at until I move ahead even further.
Review – Mail Pilot 2 for iOS
Mail Pilot has been a popular email management application since it was released as a kickstarter web application in September 2012. It is the brainchild of Alexander Obenauer and Joshua Miles who wanted to find a way of being able to reimagine how email is handled within our modern workflows and uses. It has evolved gradually since then and is now available on all of our Apple devices.
3 Ways To Break The Email Habit And Improve Mental Focus
I have a confession to make—I’m a bit of an email addict. I’ve found myself lacking in mental focus and checking my email more and more. Not good. So now instead of being reactive and prioritizing tasks due to email, I am now proactive with my work through Asana.
3 Ways To Create Start Dates In Todoist
One of the biggest pain points that Todoist users have is the lack of start dates in the app. To be fair, not many of the task management apps out there have starts dates. And those that do have start dates don’t have the scalability that Todoist offers in terms of features and platform ubiquity. I’ve experimented with three ways to achieve start date functionality in Todoist, and while none of them are perfect…they do the trick.
The Productivityist Podcast: Everything Is A To Do
This week on the podcast Michael Schechter joins me and four-time guest Patrick Rhone to have a candid discussion about the things you have to do versus the things that you want to do, among other things.
How I Use A Paper Fortune Teller To Decide My Next Project
My daughter and her friends use them at school to tell each others’ fortunes. My son came home from pre-school with one as well. And it got me thinking: “What if I used a paper fortune teller to help me choose my next project?” So I did. And the results were exactly what I hoped they would be.
Book Review: The Gary Vaynerchuk Trilogy
If you want to be more productive, spend more time on your core work. If you want to lose weight, eat less and exercise more. If you want to have a better relationships, hear what the other person says. If you want to use social media, match the message with the medium. This last sentence is the summary of Gary Vaynerchuk’s’ three books, but like the other insipid advice that precedes it, that tells you everything and nothing.