Yesterday I found some great stuff on the Internet. It was stuff I needed to find, especially with where my mind has been as of late. The first was a manifesto by Jesse Thorn on how one can “make their thing”. The second was a podcast episode of CMND+ Space where Myke Hurley had a […]
The weekend is upon us. Tonight I’ll conduct my Weekly Review (as per David Allen’s Getting Things done methodology and doing so within OmniFocus). Then I’ll relax, knowing that I’ve set myself up for the week to come. Tomorrow I’ll spend some time in Evernote, updating my beer cellar entries and compiling photos of the
The latest update to one of the apps that is key to my productivity path has just received another great update on both the iPhone and iPad. Drafts now sports a slew of additional features, including: Evernote Actions Drafts Management Reminders Integration Action Management Improved TextExpander Snippet Integration And that’s just for starters. You can
One of the most common contexts (or tags) used in task management apps is “Home” because there are certain things you can only do – or want to do – at that location. But if you work from home, then using that word as a context can be problematic. For one thing, it can be
There’s a task funnel I’ve been using more and more – something I call The Productivity Path – and it has proven to remove quite a bit of friction from my work life and life outside of work. My particular path is one that those who have invested in iOS and OS X devices can
I’ve been reading Mark Hurst’s Bit Literacy and came across a tip that I’ve employed for eons but others may not have thought of before. In fact, I never even thought to share it (until earlier this week on Twitter during #prodchat) because it just seemed second nature to me now. It’s a simple tip
Triggers can be dangerous. They can lead you do something drastic, and in a lot of cases there’s no turning back — at least not easily. Triggers can often be ignored, and I’ve done my share of ignoring. One of the triggers that I listened to that I didn’t ignore was a pretty drastic one:
We all come up against a wall every now and then. There just seems to be something stopping us from moving forward, and in some cases we can’t quite put our finger on it. It’s frustrating. You stare at your list of tasks and can’t move at all. You’re stuck in what I call “task
On the most recent episode of Mikes on Mics, Schechter and I had a great round table with Thanh Pham of Asian Efficiency (creators of OmniFocus Premium Posts) and Kourosh Dini, author of Creating Flow with OmniFocus (which I’m currently re-reading). One of the things that came up was the idea of mastery, especially regarding
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