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Ready for Launch: The Productivityist Workbook

I’ve written a lot about The Productivityist Workbook during the pre-ordering period, and today is the day that it arrives. For only $5 you get a PDF packed with tips, tactics, and tools you can uses to better your personal productivity. There’s also several exercises within its pages, and I’ve actually included them as separate […]

The Productive Weekend

The weekend is upon us. Tonight I’ll conduct my Weekly Review (as per David Allen’s Getting Things done methodology and doing so within OmniFocus). Then I’ll relax, knowing that I’ve set myself up for the week to come. Tomorrow I’ll spend some time in Evernote, updating my beer cellar entries and compiling photos of the

Drafts 3.0: The Latest Update to a Must-Have iOS App

The latest update to one of the apps that is key to my productivity path has just received another great update on both the iPhone and iPad. Drafts now sports a slew of additional features, including: Evernote Actions Drafts Management Reminders Integration Action Management Improved TextExpander Snippet Integration And that’s just for starters. You can

The Productivity Path

There’s a task funnel I’ve been using more and more – something I call The Productivity Path – and it has proven to remove quite a bit of friction from my work life and life outside of work. My particular path is one that those who have invested in iOS and OS X devices can

Exploring Mastery: A New Approach to Productivity

On the most recent episode of Mikes on Mics, Schechter and I had a great round table with Thanh Pham of Asian Efficiency (creators of OmniFocus Premium Posts) and Kourosh Dini, author of Creating Flow with OmniFocus (which I’m currently re-reading). One of the things that came up was the idea of mastery, especially regarding

The Wish List

I’ve gotten a lot better at not buying the “hot” new apps once they arrive on the scene. App purchases are often impulse buys due to their low monetary cost – but the time cost can be much greater. That’s why I am “wish listing” a lot more of these apps – and there are

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

The Pros and Cons of Using a Collaborative Task Manager

Those who have been reading this site for a while know that I use two task managers for the work I do: one is for individual task management (OmniFocus) and the other is for collaborative efforts (Asana).1 I gave Asana a real shot for both, but the power and allure of OmniFocus kept bringing me

Drafts: A Truly Indispenable iOS App

I’ve written about my text editors of choice before, and while I still use Byword and Scrivener for their respective strengths, there is one app I use that is by far the most indispensable. And that app is Drafts by Agile Tortoise for the iPhone and iPad. Today the app saw another great update, and

The Top 8 Apps on My Mac That Fuel My Productivity

I’ve been reviewing my apps on my MacBook Air to get a sense of what apps feed – and fuel – my productivity more than others. Some talk to each other seamlessly, others sync across platforms, some do both of those things, and others simply do things on their own that help in their own