Technology

@spgreenhalgh @WorkRemarkably This is a brief write-up I did on the experiment with AppleScripts

I'm revising my AppleScripts fr @WorkRemarkably () to work w/ Amphetamine (vs Caffeine). 1/

Apple’s Clips app came out several months ago. It’s a great app that I’ve seen almost nobody using. I like the app but it has a bit of a learning curve. There’s a lot more power in there than you’d think. The trick is to pick your asset (video, photo, title card, etc...) and hold down the record but

The best apps to use to manage your tasks and reminders.

Our 5 yr-old gives his audio review of @NPR 's @wowintheworld podcast > at the bottom of:

To-do lists don't need to be complicated—plenty of people use a pen and paper for the job without any problem. And yet a new to-do list app seems to come out every day. Why? Because keeping track ...

A few weeks ago I wrote about how I have so many Workflow recipes, which prompted several emails asking me to share. I already shared quite a few of them in the Workflow Video Field Guide but since publishing that I've added several more. Over the next couple months I'm going to share some of th

RT @DaveStachowiak: If you use @OmniFocus you should definitely join me as a member of @LearnOmniFocus - Tim’s community is one of a ki…

Keyboard Maestro is a really powerful tool for automating work on your Mac. Here's a simple Keyboard Maestro script I use every day. When you write for the Internet, you often include links. This little script, upon me activating the magic keyboard combination, jumps to Safari, selects the URL (⌘L)

How to Implement Getting Things Done (GTD) Effectively w/ OmniFocus (TPS136) - Podcast. Subscribe to Asian Efficiency and stay on top of productivity.

How to manage during a stressful season in #highered

Hazel is one of our favorite Mac apps, and this article teaches you our favorite tips and tricks to help you become a Hazel power user and save time today.

@MacSparky Why did I wait so long to buy the OmniFocus Field Guide??? Maybe the best two sawbucks I ever spent!

As i've mentioned numerous times before, I'm a huge fan of OmniFocus . In my last entry on OmniFocus , I offered a peek into the way I organize my folders. If you haven't read that post, please do so now. In this entry, I’ll answer some of the questions about triaging, prioritizing, and adding ti

I am a huge fan of OmniFocus (OF). I am so dependent on the software, I’m not sure I could function without it. Although there has been much written about the use of OmniFocus, I have yet to see anyone else that uses the software quite the way I do. In this entry, I’ll introduce you to my OmniFoc

In my last entry , I spoke about the power of Omnifocus . To get the most from the program, you must have easy ways to capture data. As I mentioned in my last entry, there are versions of Omnifocus available for the Mac OS as well as the IOS–I own them all. In this blog entry (and accompanying scr

Did you know technology can enhance your teaching? listen to the latest Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. @bonni208

Lately I’ve struck up an email friendship with Todd Peterson, the Director of Project-Based Learning and Professor of English at Southern Utah University. Not surprisingly, Todd is an articulate guy and pretty passionate about his new iPhone 7. Thankfully, he’s agreed to share his home screen with u

I get a lot of emails from readers asking me exactly how I distinguish between tasks and calendar items. In a perfect world, a task is an item you need to do and a calendar item represents a place you need to be . However, the way I work makes things a little muddier.  For example, I li

And some more ideas on how to use it in academia.

Using a calendar and task manager together can make you super efficient, but you need to know how to use them effectively. Here is how to get started.

Alfred is a tool I use hundreds of times a day without realizing it. I’m not sure why it took me so long to pick up Alfred Remote for my phone, but I’m now s...

"Say 'yes' to the things that matter..." @RobertTalbert on #tihe120 #gtd #prodchat

One piece missing in my Drafts actions arsenal was the ability to create a single draft with multiple tasks and send them all to OmniFocus via the new URL sc...

Location based lists have a lot of uses. In this episode, I talk about the main ways I use them and how they’ve helped me in the past. There’s also some foll...

The new Working With @OmniFocus website is officially open and I'm super excited to share it with you!