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Notational Velocity Lives

Written on September 17, 2009 by Nick Santilli and 8 people have commented

Years ago — even before Getting Things Done was all the rave — a powerful note-taking application named Notational Velocity, was all the rage. And then it lay nearly dormant. For years. But just a couple nights ago I received a fantastic email notifying me of all that’s been going on with Notational Velocity these [...]

How-To: Put Google Calendar and Tasks in Your Menu Bar

Written on April 22, 2009 by David Klein and 17 people have commented

Don’t you wish there were an easier way to quickly view upcoming appointments and your task list?  If you’re a fan of Google products, then follow these steps for an easy-to-use solution.  In the end you will have two new items in your menu bar: one for Google Calendar and one for Google Tasks.
What You [...]

App Review: Streaks — Rewarding You for Repetitive Behavior

Written on March 20, 2009 by Olly Farshi and 10 people have commented

A calendar specifically designed for tracking your goals, Streaks aims to join the pantheon of excellent iPhone productivity apps.
Both the touch and the iPhone, the latter in particular, are ideal platforms for productivity tools. The connected nature of the pocketable Apple devices means we can be grabbing all sorts of data about our daily lives [...]

Google Adds Task Syncing to the iPhone

Written on February 03, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 14 people have commented

While Apple still seems stubbornly set against allowing iPhone users to get things done, since they haven’t introduced any kind of note or to-do syncing for the iPhone, Google appears eager to scratch the itch.
Today, Google announced that iPhone users can now visit an iPhone-optimized Gmail Tasks site by pointing their Safari browser to http://gmail.com/tasks. [...]

Appigo Todo: Detailed Task Management on the iPhone

Written on January 27, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

My recent look at Appigo Notebook for the iPhone and iPod touch had me reevaluating my choice of task management app for the platform. Conveniently, Appigo also offers Todo ($9.99, App Store), one of the leading task management apps in the App Store. While the “integration” Appigo offers between the two apps is more of [...]

Task Management With Things

Written on December 28, 2008 by David Appleyard and 16 people have commented

The latest application from Cultured Code is Things, a task organizer and to-do list manager for Mac and iPhone. It centers around the ideas encompassed in Getting Things Done (GTD) and makes it easy to break down and organize tasks.
Far from being a straight forward To Do list manager, Things provides separation between tasks due [...]

OmniFocus for Mac and iPhone – a Perfect Task Management Solution

Written on August 25, 2008 by Brandon Eley and 18 people have commented

If you’re like me, you have more to do than you could realistically get done in a month. How do you keep up with it all? There are dozens of productivity applications for your Mac, and a few for your iPhone. But there’s one application that’s available on both your Mac and your iPhone… OmniFocus.
I’m [...]

Mailplane 2 Beta is Available

Written on August 21, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 7 people have commented

For those of you who don’t know, Mailplane is an application that combines the best of two worlds: Gmail and your Mac. Mailplane is essentially Mail.app for your Gmail account. It allows all of the functionality of regular Gmail, but adds a lot to make life easier.
You can compose, save and send email like in [...]

Evernote = Ubiquitous Personal Memory

Written on April 03, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 106 people have commented

Evernote, which was once a Windows-only, highly-complex clippings database, has re-invented itself with a new 3.0 beta release that combines a feature-smart client for OS X (& Windows) with creative and handy web & mobile functionality to ensure you never forget anything. I managed to wait in the beta line long enough to get an [...]

OmniFocus: Dropping in January

Written on November 16, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 2 people have commented

The Omni Group has been working feverishly on their version of a GTD (Getting Things Done) application for the Apple platform. They’ve been letting 16,000 individuals play with their “sneaky peek” of the application and enhancing the code daily for months.
Well I just heard today – and you can verify this on their website [...]