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 […]
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
Making adjustments is a part of improving your productivity. But those adjustments, while some are done in one fell swoop, don’t always have an impact right away. Think of that front end work I’ve talked about before. You could say that the impact of it won’t be felt for some time — even a long
One of the most effective things you can do with apps like Evernote, nvALT, Flow, Asana, and others is to invest in the use of tags. By using tags, you are creating easily searchable identifiers for your notes, tasks, and/or projects so that you can access them whenever you want quickly and easily. That’s why
Yesterday I got stuck. So stuck, in fact, that I got very little done, let alone writing. I had my list of tasks that I was meant to work on, but I just couldn’t make marked progress on any of them. Sure, I’ve talked about I’ve used Unstuck to get out of situations like this
When it comes to personal productivity, we don’t necessarily approach things with a clear mind. That’s because our mind is full of so much that we have to do that we can’t possibly be at our best. We rush in, like a driver behind the wheel who is only looking to get to where they
This is the first post I’ve written here since the transition from Vardy.me to Productivityist.com that is fairly removed from the topic of productivity in some form or another. But it’s one I wanted to write anyway…because it was an important one to write. This piece is about Molly Campbell, a little girl from my
Today as we walked home from school together, my daughter and her friend — who was coming over for a play-date — were a few steps behind me and my son, speaking quietly to each other. As I gave a closer listen, I discovered that they were talking about the roles they were going to
The pause is one of the most valuable buttons on a remote control. It’s also one of the most valuable actions you can take when trying to be more productive. Sure, by pausing you are suspending one type of action…but you are doing so in favour of another: thinking. When you pause, you are taking
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