338: Quality Tools

Tools matter. Ever have a part of your workflow be changed, and then all of a sudden things don't go as smoothly as they normally do? The struggle with a change in workflow is real! We've experienced it when our favorite tools shut down, or make some major overhaul changes, or when we change jobs and have to use a different OS.

Resources from the call:

• I'm a Mac vs I'm a PC

• traveler notebook

• OmniFocus

• TodoIst

• Things

• Microsoft Office

• Sal Soghoian

• Mac Power Users

• Parker Quick Gel pens

• Bullet Journal

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330: Tech Tools

Today we decided to dive into a bunch of tech tools and discuss what works and doesn't work for us for our workflows.

Resources from the call:

• Evernote

• Notion

• Obsidian

• One Note

• Microsoft Power Automate

• Pleexy

• Microsoft Teams

• Para Method for filing - Tiago Forte

• Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte

• gettingthingsdone.com one-sheeters

• GTD® Workflow Diagram

• GTD® Setup Guides

• Control Your Day by Jim McCullen

• Microsoft Access

• Day One Journal App

• Javelin PDF readers

• Basecamp

• Hey

• AirTable

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308: Finding Your Joy with GTD®

Is your system sparking joy? Do you feel inspired by it? In this episode we look at our systems from that perspective. How can we inject more joy and inspiration into our systems, and by extension, into our lives? Such a great chat! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

• Tidying Up with Marie Kondo

• Remember The Milk

• Todoist

• Someday / Maybe Lists

• Tiny Habits, The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg

• Time Off by John Fitch & Max Frenzel

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304: Deep Dive - Omnifocus & Todoist

This episode started out as a pros and cons of task management apps. We ended up really focusing on looking at Omnifocus and Todoist, with some other things thrown in there as well. Enjoy the conversation!

Resources from the call:

• OmniFocus

• Todoist

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302: Play & GTD®

We all experience friction in our systems from time to time. One way to look at this is as an opportunity to make some improvements to our systems and workflows. In this episode, we talk about what that looks like and some things we've discovered over time... as well as, some tools that might be useful. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Jeff Su - You Tube Channel

• Pleexy - Evernote & Todoist integration

• Office 365

• IFTTT

• Zapier

• Evernote

• PDFCombo

• PDFExploder

• 1Password

• Last Pass

• Roboform

• MsgFiler for Apple Mail

• Microsoft Project

• Smartsheet

• Launchbar

• Alfred for Mac

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291: Project Planning Cont'd - Evernote Deep Dive

We continue the discussion on project planning in this episode. A ton more tools shared. And Ray shares a whole bunch of info about Evernote and integrations. So much goodness in this episode. Enjoy!!

Resources from the call:

• Ray Sidney-Smith Evernote Training and Resources

• Getting More Done with Evernote - Ray Sidney-Smith

• Getting Things Done in Todoist

• ToDoIst

• Evernote

• OmniFocus

• Drafts

• Unito.io

• Remember The Milk

• Evernote Home Dashboard

• Evernote Google Drive Integration

• Evernote Google Calendar Integration

• Feedly

• TaskClone

• Workflowy

• Google Form

• Evernote Ink Note

• Mindmaps

• Mind42.com <> freemind

• SimpleMind

• Zen mindmap

• Xmind

• MindManager

• Mindmeister

• Tom’s Planner for Gantt

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286: Tool Switching & System Tweaking

We started out thinking about tool switching and then found ourselves diving into all the tweaks we do/can do to our systems. Shiny things!! We talk about checklists, various tools, and share how we use them. Lots of fun! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Evernote

• David Allen on GTD® and Dealing with Interruptions

• Checklist Manifesto, The by Atul Gawande

• Getting Things Done by David Allen

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285: Reference Filing & Evernote

An important part of our systems is our reference materials. Many of us use Evernote and they had just come out with some major updates at the time of this recording, so we dove into reference filing with a focus on Evernote. Some great insight from people who really leverage Evernote! Also applicable to other apps, of course. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Evernote integrations

• Calendars

• Meeting Notes

• Tasks

• Dashboard

• Jeff Su - YouTube Channel (check out the Productivity Playlist)

• Dropbox

• Google Drive

• Microsoft One Drive

• Instapaper

• Feedly

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265: Workspace & Workflows

Are you a Mac or a PC? 😉 In this call, we talk about the comfort with our systems and how they become second nature and the impact of having to change to a new system. Lots of laughs and good times! Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• Now Habit, The by Neil Fiore, PH.D

• Mac vs PC

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206: Tools / Hybrid Systems

In this episode we discuss Hybrid Systems and a bunch of tools that help us get things done. Enjoy!

Resources from the call:

• One Note

• Outlook

• Rocket Book notebooks

• Everlast Notebooks

• Apple iPad Pro

• Evernote

• TaskClone

• Bullet Journal

• Clear

• Harvest

• RescueTime

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