NetNewsWire iPhone RSS Productivity Tip
I have been using NetNewsWire on my Mac as my main RSS Newsreader for quite a while now.
I love RSS news feeds and I utilize them to make my own tailored news feed, delivering me the news I want every day. I love explaining RSS to people not in the know. It is like taking the parts you like out of every print newspaper and getting it delivered to you daily, free of charge.
NetNewsWire on the iPhone is one of my most used applications on the iPhone. The ability to sync what you have read between the phone and your desktop via the Newsgator sync service is awesome. This means that once you read something on the phone, it is marked as read on your desktop the next time you launch the desktop news client.
Auto Card Manager Simplifies Wallet Storage
It may seem silly to consider a card managing wallet as a productivity gadget but the bottom line often is that if something can save time and remove stress then it’s usually worthwhile in this department.
Thus, the Auto Card Manager has been created in order to provide a hyper-organized alternative to the mess that can ensue when various cards are kept only in a wallet.
The Auto Card Manager sorts all of your most important cards into special slots which can be accessed through the simple press of a button.
Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 9th November 2008
The last week has been a great week for this blog. I have seen a steady increase in Feedburner subscriptions and a considerable increase in traffic.
I closely follow the analytics for this blog and it is good to see the average page visits per user on the rise, along with the new visitors brought in from the search engines. I have added a few cool WordPress plugins to help with this, all of which I will blog about in the coming weeks.
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reQall iPhone To-Do and Reminder Service Productivity App
reQall is one of the most effective Apple iPhone and iPod Touch productivity applications currently available for users to bring into their day-to-day life.
It effectively combines several different organizational features into a single, extremely handy app. The program is completely free of charge as well and this is definitely something that should propel it to the forefront of similar productivity systems.
The application acts as a to-do list coupled with a quality reminder service. reQall lets users either speak or type their tasks into their iPhone and then store it for a later time.
Review of the Nozbe GTD and Productivity Application
Nozbe is a great tool for both strict Getting Things Done adherents and those looking only to provide some better structure for their work and life.
The website and program are both well developed and feature a solid spin on David Allen’s teachings as a way to increase overall productivity while lowering your stress.
The site initially appears pretty cluttered but once you’ve navigated yourself into signing-up and getting into the heart of the system, Nozbe offers one of the best online GTD options currently available.
Review of the iPhone Task Managers
Just a quick note to promote a post over at Lifehacker, Battle of the iPhone Task Managers.
There are numerous task managers available now on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Myself, I use Zenbe as a simple Task Manager. The reason I like Zenbe is that it is quick, clean, and has a nice Web Sync so that I can use it on my Mac and on my iPhone.
The Lifehacker post compares the following iPhone Task Managers:
Mind Mapping Tool MindMeister Updates to 3.0
I am a great fan of Mind Mapping and I have followed the MindMeister online Mind Mapping tool since its first release.
The guys at MindMeister invited me to preview and test their new release, version 3.0 of MindMeister which I am happy to say is now live so I can tell you all about it.
MindMeister version 2.0 was pretty hot, and a great showcase for Web 2.0 application technology. Version 3.0 brings some great new features that really make it the best online Mind Mapping tool.
Email Productivity Experiment – Update 4
This is the fifth post in my mini series about email productivity. For those of you who missed the first four I have provided links to them below.
Email Productivity Experiment
Email Productivity Experiment - Update 1
Email Productivity Experiment - Update 2
Email Productivity Experiment - Update 3
It has been a couple of weeks since my last post on the subject of Email Productivity. In my last post I had hit a few problems with my rigid system due to the fact that I was working on a news story and therefore I had a requirement to check email much more than I would have normally done as I was getting very important information via email that required immediate action.
Tweaking your OmniFocus Workflow
I provided a link in my last Productivity Links post to the Poder.dk blog covering tweaking your OmniFocus Workflow.
Jens has created a great 15 minute video showing how he uses OmniFocus to Get Things Done. His workflow differs from the way OmniFocus is meant to be used and he does a great job of showing how he has shaped OmniFocus into the application he needs to fit his adaptation of the GTD Methodology.
I think this is another great example of user generated content that can help us all in our journey towards productivity!
Productivity, Motivation, and Personal Development Links – 2nd November 2008
Just watched Lewis Hamilton win the 2008 Formula One Grand Prix Championships. What an amazing grandstand finish. Lewis only needed 5th place to take the title and he was fifth right up to the last lap where he was overtaken. He managed to pull it back on the second to last bend, around 10 seconds before the end of the race to provide a real nail biting climax to a great F1 season.
Being proud to be British when it comes to sport is a rare feeling, so I will savor it..
Here are my collection of links for this week.
