Remember when I wrote an entire series about getting out of Google? Yeah, me too. Now I’m diving in. And I’m diving in deep. I know quite a bit about Mac and iOS stuff, but barely anything about Android. So when Telus sent me a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 to review (which is coming shortly), […]
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
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
OS X Mavericks now features the use of “tags” within the entire operating system. Tags have long been used within apps — especially task management applications like Asana — to help with searching and to add context to action items. With Evernote and several email apps also using tags extensively, those who’ve spent some
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
The following is a guest post by Travis Collier. Travis is a Commissioned Officer in the US Coast Guard and consultant–he examines how why people in organizations aren’t working well, and discovers solutions to get them working together and better. “The Ping is that little sensation that occasionally prompts me (you) to check my e-mail
This a guest post by Dallon Christensen. Dallon is the direct of accounting and finance and chief financial officer of Evolution Power Tools in Davenport, Iowa. Dallon has fallen off the Getting Things Done wagon more times than he can remember while organizing his roles as devoted husband, father, friend, co-worker, and blogger. Dallon is
The following is a guest post by Tim Sprosen. Tim is a medical researcher at the University of Oxford and a long time GTDer. He writes about productivity at timsprosen.com focusing on the higher-horizons and how they can add meaning, passion and purpose to our daily lives. Are you chasing the rainbow? As a kid
The arrival of iOS 7 hasn’t slowed down my app testing. Both Schechter and I touch on the idea of making changes (such as upgrading an operating system) on this week’s Mikes on Mics, along with the idea of taking on new — or newer versions of — apps only when the need arises. With
I’m a bit of a talker. If you’ve ever listened to Mikes on Mics or seen me speak, then you probably know that already. So it should come as no surprise that there are occasions where I capture my thoughts and tasks in audio form. There are numerous tools out there that you can use
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