#Hyperdock and evernote update
Looks pretty fly, although it just got acquired by YouSendIt, and you know the way these things usually go.Įd: Update - it did. When your day-to-day info is spread around a bunch of different services, this could be a real time-saver. It’s a file search app that can search your computer, Dropbox, SkyDrive, Evernote, Google Drive, and GMail at the same time, in the same window. To be honest I haven’t used this one much yet, but Found looks great. We use it for our ‘thanks, but no thanks’ emails to agents offering us modeling contracts.
#Hyperdock and evernote download
As the world’s fastest two-finger typist, I’ll be fine, but you might want to look into aText.Īny time you find yourself typing the same thing over and over, you should stop, and then download aText - it uses keyboard shortcuts to automatically expand large chunks of text. Running a business requires a lot of typing. Easily keep track of expenses, who paid what, and other such joyous tasks.Īt the very least it’s useful for tracking your business partner’s dangerous table salt addiction. ‘So you paid 50,000 dong for that banh mi in Saigon, but then I bribed the border guard with 2 bucks and a 20 baht candy bar…’ If this sounds familiar, you need Trip Splitter. You can categorize individual programs and tasks and flagellate yourself silly every Sunday when your ‘74% time Unproductive’ report card arrives. RescueTime offers a more comprehensive, visual way to help you see where your time is going each day and week. Taking 30 seconds at the end of each day to record what you’ve achieved is easy, feels good, and serves as my personal journal (when I’m no longer of this earth, my offspring can hack into my iDoneThis and sob loudly over such personal insights as ‘Design call 30mins’ and ‘Delegated lunch preparation to Gary’. It’s the only group task organisation tool we’ve been able to make stick – and don’t be put off if you’re solo, any process that has multiple phases could benefit from Trello.
We also set some rules for what tasks can go into Trello, like ‘has to take more than an hour and less than a week’ and ‘don’t touch anyone else’s board or you get a smackdown’. OK then, here goes: during weekly meetings we work out what needs to be done, and turn these tasks into ‘cards’ in Trello.Īt any moment, I can go into a team member’s board, see what’s in their queue, what they’re working on right now, and what they’ve done this week. Calm down big guy, just tell us what it does. Trello is a SAAS that uses a Kanban workflow… whoa whoa whoa, nerd alert. Note: some of these tools have disappeared since this article was first written, but most of them are still alive and kicking! Organisation / Productivity / Efficiency Trello
#Hyperdock and evernote windows
We use Macs, but many of these are web-based tools or have Windows versions. They’re certainly not exhaustive, but they’re the tools that bring everyday value to our team. So we need to find tools to fight this temptation, and beyond that, run an efficient business operation from a mobile base.īelow are 15 tools we use. Unfortunately, time spent streaking is inversely related to income (unless you happen to have a certain type of body, which I do not).
No? Just me?Īnyway, the point is that productivity is hard. You think you’re on a roll, yet somehow jerk awake in the office bathroom, pale and clammy, after overdosing on Instagrams of your colleagues’ tropical getaways just to avoid working. He interrupted his daily streak along a tropical beach long enough to to tell us all about the tools he uses to run his physical product business from the road…īeing productive is tough at the best of times. Jimmy is one half of the dynamic duo behind the Minaal bags, fantastic pieces of luggage and Kickstarter phenomenons.
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