If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. ~ David Allen

Weekend Productivity Tools December First

Weekly Productivity Tools

Each week I want to share different productivity tools, articles, or ideas that I find in the previous week. You can find all earlier published post about weekly productivity tools here.

Today, we are witnesses of high technological effect of our everyday life. That means that we use different technological solutions to stay on top of our to-do list. We use different technological solutions to be more productive, to remember everything, to learn more and more…

I want to learn, to try different things, to test different options to become more productive person.

This series of posts on My Productivity Tools is the place where I share different resources that I find and think will be useful in increasing my own and your productivity. I encourage you to check the links also try tools to see how they can affect on your personal and professional life.

Excellent productivity stuff that I chose for this week:

  • Rescue Time. Rescue Time is the tool that measure everything that I do on my computer and categorze the work as productive and unproductive work. The tool can be customized according to my own selection of productive and unproductive work. I can easily see where I spend my unproductive time and think about the strategy to decrease it or eliminate it. All in all this is the excellent tool.
  • Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Managing Your Own Psychology. This article talk about Anti-todo lists which you can use every time you do something useful during the day. You simple write it down in your Anti-Todo List all your accomplishments
  • How to Get Away From Your Tight Schedule (And Still Get Things Done). Excellent article explaining our true about very tight schedules that we make to ourselves. Such schedules, instead to be tool to improve our productivity becomes the tool that increase our stress level. Here, you can find a useful blueprint for creating solid scheduling practice.

If you missed something, here are the posts titles from this week at My Productivity Tools:

Weekend Productivity Tools June Two

Weekly Productivity Tools

Each week I want to share different productivity tools, articles or ideas that I find in the previous week. You can find all previously published post about weekly productivity tools here.

One of the important productivity principles is learning and exercising. New technology, new things and new needs around you can increase your productivity. Because of that you need to learn more, to try different tools, read different materials and implement different things in order to become a more productive person.

This series of posts on My Productivity Tools is the place where I share different resources that I find and think will be useful in increasing my own and your productivity. I encourage you to check the links and try tools to see how they can impact on you.

Excellent productivity stuff that I chose for this week:

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Why I Reorganize My iPhone Dock?

My Productivity Tools

Today I can’t imagine my life without my iPhone and my iPad. These two devices make me mobile as much as possible. My iPhone is one of the most-used devices in my pocket, but in the same time, there are too many applications which I use on everyday level or random basis.

The dock is a little area on iPhone or iPad which is shown on each screen and help for quickly opening the most-used apps.

Until this week, I haven’t thought about things like quick access to some of the applications, because until this change I make several movements on my phone to find and open some of the apps that I want to open. I was thinking that several seconds is not a big deal. But, why I don’t use something that already exists to improve my productivity when I use the phone?

On the dock by default when I buy my phone there was:

  • Phone app for making phone calls,
  • Mail app to send and read received emails,
  • Safari app for browsing through the Internet and
  • Music app for listening to my favorite songs, artists, or albums.

What I have realized after some analysis period is that I don’t use each of this apps on the everyday basis. On the other side, one of the most-used apps is in the messy part of my iPhone between all other apps.

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Weekend Productivity Tools May Twelve

Weekly Productivity Tools

As a part of this weekend serials here on My Productivity Tools, each week on Saturday I will publish this type of posts, and you can find the previously published at weekly productivity tools.

Because I always try to learn something more, to become more productive and to improve my productivity, I need to try different tools, read different materials and implement different things. This serial is the place where I share different resources that I find and think will be useful in increasing my own and your productivity. I encourage you to check the links and try tools to see how they can impact on you.

Excellent productivity stuff that I chose for this week:

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My GTD System With Evernote and OmniFocus Today

Time

When I want to decide about my daily activities, I use GTD system developed by David Allen to pull of some of the tasks, or ideas that I have put into my information pull.

When I worked in the intelligence department in Customs Administration, we develop a system as an intelligence cycle which starts with an information pull. That’s a place where each information about everything regardless the meaning and importance are placed there. It is something like capturing process and inbox in the GTD system. In that level, meaning, importance and usefulness of the information is not important. Thеsе activities are part of processing process of each information and deciding what will be next steps about each of them.

Because we live in a highly messy world, our mind continuously learns to process different stuffs. And there is a lot of stuff. On the other side, everything that comes to our mind is not always connected with our current activities. The best way is to put all of that stuff in a pull that will enable you everything will be processed later.

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Evernote Tagging Will Increase Your Productivity

Evernote

Let’s continue with the series about Evernote as one of the productivity tools that can increase your productivity.

In this series, I already write about adding different stuff in Evernote, about possible ways how to organize that stuff to increase your productivity, about collaboration possibilities within the tool and about search functionality.

Today, I want to continue with the next important thing for productivity when it comes to Evernote. It’s tagging functionality that will enable you easily to find different stuff in different notebooks.

I already talk about tagging in the post about organizing stuff in Evernote.

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