Apps

The 2013 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

This year I decided to offer holiday shoppers a bit more time to explore possible gift ideas for the productivity enthusiast — aka the “productivityist” — in their lives. After all, having four weeks to shop is far better than two…and it’s more than fitting for a productivityist (or someone shopping for one) to be […]

How I Test Apps

I was asked quite some time ago on Twitter (or perhaps App.net) how I go about putting various apps through the paces. I’ve put together a few tactics over the years to help me with the process. There’s no way I’d be able to handle working with several task managers and other apps at once

Workflows: Notetaking/Writing with Write App and nvALT

The following is a guest post by Chris Humphries. Chris is a Digital Media Specialist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He works with students, faculty, and staff to solve media production-related hardware and software problems. He’s passionate about technology, BBQ, and coffee. You can find him on Twitter as @chrishumphr1es, or at his

The Build A Better Workflow Series: Apps and Services

Over the month of November I’ll be writing a weekly post as part of a series I’m dubbing Build A Better Workflow. The first installment is going to focus on apps and services you can add to the equation to help you make a workflow that is better for you. I talked about a lot

How I Built My CreativeLive Course in Evernote

Some of you may have taken my CreativeLive course – Time Management 101: Prioritize the Right Things – and for that I thank you. The process of building and delivering the course was an experience I’ll never forget. In this post I’m going to share with you how I built my CreativeLive course in one of my workflow apps of choice…Evernote.

Trick and Treat: The New 1Password Emergency Kit

Update: There is a new version of The 1Password Emergency Kit. Visit this post for more details. It’s Halloween, so I figured that I’d offer you both a trick and a treat today with the release of an updated version of my popular 1Password Emergency Kit. Now if you’re not using 1Password already, you should

A Look at Task Management Tools for Teams

A couple of weeks back I spoke to a local contingent of budding “productivityists” about team task management at Q College. During my creativeLIVE workshop later this week, I’ll be doing it again. But before I do that, I thought I’d offer Productivityist readers a closer look at some of the team task management solutions

A Look at Less Meeting

I’m not a fan of meetings. I know they’re essential, but they often become big time-wasters for everyone involved. I am, however, a big fan of apps that do one thing really well, and especially apps that do that and can scale up or down in the process. Less Meeting has helped me deal with

How My 8 Year Old Daughter Uses Evernote

I’ve already outlined how I use Evernote to track my beer cellar (and I will probably write further on that use case somewhere down the line as the cellar grows), but I’m not the only one using Evernote in my house. My daughter also uses it regularly…and it’s all by design. My daughter is now