Archive for the ‘productivity’ Category
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
reMail is like X1 for the iPhone.
As I've written here in the past, X1 is a must-have tool for anyone who's serious about archiving and finding Outlook email -- its instant search works so fast and so well partly because it keeps a copy of emails in its search index.
I ...
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
One of the simplest yet most useful iPhone apps I've come across is Instapaper, which offers a simple way to bookmark something so that you can read it later.
It solves that problem where someone sends you a link or you stumble across an article online that interests you, but you ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
While visiting family and friends in San Francisco for Christmas and New Year's, my friend Tim was raving about a Web app called Evernote -- how it was allowing him (and his boss) to remove all paper from his life, when he combined it with a new high-speed scanner (though ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
I've long been a Quicken user and still use it for the primary management of mine and my wife's finances (currently on Quicken Deluxe 2007). I've also tried out just about every online financial management tool out there, including Wesabe and Mint.com.
Since my first interaction with it during its beta ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
People who know me know that I'm all about using keyboard shortcuts whenever possible. Why? When my hands spend more time on the keyboard and less time on the mouse, I can maximize productivity and get more done in less time. So long as a shortcut exists and you know ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Microsoft Word and Excel are great for creating and emailing around documents, but what if you want to collaborate and share your documents with others online? If you have a Gmail address or Google account, you probably already know about Google Docs. My wife and I have used it for ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Along with RoboForm and Ta-da List, Jott has become one of the key productivity tools that I use several times daily.
Jott's tagline says it all:
Think it. Jott it. Do it.
Anyone who's read Getting Things Done understands the importance of getting a thought out of your head and into a place ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
Quite simply, RoboForm is the best password manager utility out there. Once you use RoboForm, you'll wonder how you lived without it. I've been using it since early 2006 or so and it's one of the utilities I use every single day on both my desktop and my laptop (and ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Who doesn't love a good list? Without a list, how will you remember what to pick up from the store? How will you manage your work day? How will you set goals for yourself or your home improvement projects? Note your great blog ideas? And how will you remember what ...
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