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

It Doesn’t Just Happen Overnight

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

Why You Should Use Universal Tags

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

How I Get Unstuck

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

A red wooden peg figure standing ahead of a group of natural wooden figures, representing being proactive and getting ahead of yourself in productivity.

Why You Need to Be Ahead of Yourself (And How Far Is Too Far)

Personal productivity rarely starts with a clear mind. It usually starts with a full one. We have so much to do that we can’t possibly be at our best. So we rush in. Like a driver who’s only focused on the destination — not the road. Rushing in is rarely the best course of action.

The Plight of Molly Campbell

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