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Totally Covered

Monday was a crazy day. I took part in the upcoming Golden Headphones Awards episode of CMD+SPACE. I did some writing — but not for today. I wrote for tomorrow and the next day because today I received the final version of this… Yep, it’s the cover of The Front Nine. The writing is done. […]

All the Focus on OmniFocus

The past couple of weeks has seen a slew of posts related to the ever-popular task management application, OmniFocus. Here’s a roundup of what went down… Enter Mail Drop Currently in beta, Mail Drop gives OmniFocus users a unique email address that they can use to send items to their OmniFocus inbox for processing later.

Building a Thing to Build a Bigger Thing

After a very busy week, Craig Jarrow and I had a couple of discussions. One of them took place Friday night, where we talked about the week gone by and even more about the weeks ahead. The funny thing about this talk was that it felt freeing — perhaps even more freeing than our most

The Why

I’ve written my share of “how to” posts here, and I really enjoy sharing how I do certain things to keep me as productive as possible. Whether that’s through the use of an app or technology or through the use of mindful practices, I’m really into exploring how to make my workflow better. Longtime readers

Connect Better with Cloze

A few weeks ago, Jascha over at Mindjet suggested I give a web app a try that i hadn’t heard of before based on what I’d written about SaneBox over at Lifehack months ago. The app is called Cloze, and unlike SaneBox it is more permissive than dismissive. Cloze wants to help you build and

Respect Your Time

My friend Steve Dotto talks about respecting time as one of the earmarks in his latest endeavour, ProTECHtivity. He suggests different pieces of tech (apps, devices, etc.) that will support you with that. Ultimately by using technology as an aid, you can find ways to better respect your time. And that’s one benefit technology offers.

Get Gifting Done with Evernote

While I’ve abandoned going all in with Evernote, there are certain things that I’m finding it does really, really well. Like keeping shopping lists. It does an especially great job in helping me keep tabs on shopping lists of the holiday variety. I have been able to keep track of all of the possible gift

Getting Better Done

The book is almost done. Just polishing off the final edits. Then I’ll have a release date. The inbox is almost at zero, but I’ve been doing the work that now lives outside the inbox far more than the stuff arriving in it. The steady flow of work is happening, and I’m getting closer to

The 2012 Productivityist Holiday Gift Guide

We’re almost two weeks away from Christmas, and now’s the time where we’re racking our brains trying to figure out what to get that particular person that’s on your list who is difficult to shop for each and every year. Well, if this person is a productivityist — or at least needs to look at