Timeout Programs Are a Waste of Time

I saw a cool pic­ture of an office that uses a Mac pro­gram called Time­out (the pic­ture showed all the office com­put­ers with a ‘time­out’ at the same moment) and decided to give the pro­gram a try. I had used sim­i­lar pro­grams before and I said this about them: There is a pro­gram for the Mac called RSI­Dock that forces these breaks, but I find the best method is just to remem­ber to look away every once in a while. Now Time­out is sim­i­lar to RSI­Dock... Read More

Why Dropbox Rocks

I have briefly touched on Drop­box a few times, but I wanted to take time to explain what makes Drop­box great. I know a lot of peo­ple that don’t ‘get’ Drop­box are usu­ally peo­ple with only one com­puter, they see Drop­box as a way to syn­chro­nize files across mul­ti­ple com­put­ers and noth­ing more. Drop­box though is much more than just a syn­chro­niza­tion tool and, if you use a com­puter at all, you should be using Drop­box. Here are the... Read More

∞ PadMapper for the iPhone

PadMap­per is by far one of the best ways to search for a rental place. This is both my pro­fes­sional opin­ion as a Prop­erty Man­ager and my per­sonal opin­ion as a renter. It just got bet­ter with a new iPhone app. PadMap­per for the iPhone.  Read More

Why Task Management Apps Still Suck

Not a day goes by where I don’t use my task man­age­ment apps in some form. For that rea­son there is not a day that I am not let down by those very apps. The Prob­lem The cur­rent slate of task man­age­ment apps are not what we, the users, need. They are loaded with fea­tures that look great on web­sites, in pro­mo­tional videos and var­i­ous other mar­ket­ing tools, but are utterly use­less in real life usage. (It is impor­tant to note that I am talk­ing... Read More

Computing Simplicity

I have on more than one occa­sion, includ­ing today, writ­ten about how we need to sim­plify all that is going on with regards to our com­puter screen. Less icons, less dis­tract­ing wall­pa­pers, no clocks, no bat­tery sta­tus and so forth. I then read this post by Chris Bowler where he states: I’m fairly sure I could lose 2 days of work look­ing for ways to con­fig­ure those tools to be accessed in some other fash­ion. But why? Just so I can post screen­shots... Read More

Why I Use OmniFocus

I have, and con­tinue to try all sorts of new task man­age­ment pro­grams out there, from the sim­ple Taskpa­per to the more com­plex solu­tions such as Lotus Notes. Every time, with­out fail, I come full cir­cle back to Omni­Fo­cus. I found myself ask­ing myself what it is about Omni­Fo­cus that keeps me com­ing back, and what it is about Omni­Fo­cus that keeps me want­ing to try new programs. The Why As it turns out the ‘why’ of the ques­tion is fairly... Read More

Background Zen

As I write this I have two fold­ers on my com­puter that con­tain desk­top back­grounds (wall­pa­pers) that I have col­lected from var­i­ous places online, total­ing 165 dif­fer­ent back­grounds to choose from. So what do I do? I have been talk­ing a lot on this blog about some­thing I call Desk­top Zen. Cre­at­ing a com­put­ing envi­ron­ment that is relax­ing and con­ducive to cre­ativ­ity and work­ing. Of those 165 back­ground pic­tures (some... Read More

REVIEW: Ulysses 2.0

I first heard about Ulysses on Dar­ing Fire­ball, as they were spon­sor­ing the site for the NanoW­rimo month back in Novem­ber 2009. Intrigued by the hard-to-come-by thumbs up from John Gru­ber I down­loaded the pro­gram. This is a beast of a pro­gram, and I imme­di­ately dove in to start writ­ing a let­ter to my Fiancé to be read at our upcom­ing wed­ding. This pro­gram is not cheap (though the Core ver­sion is sig­nif­i­cantly more afford­able and I will... Read More

New Task Manager: Teux Deux

What deux yeux have teux deux teux­day?. Is the slo­gan, this is a very well designed Web app, with very basic fea­tures. Think of it as a weekly planner.  Read More

Researched Comparison of GTD Programs

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