These are two key points: access and writing. I don’t have access to my Mac(s) 24/7 anymore and I have to give up on pretending my articles are tasks that need to be managed with tags and due dates.
Writing is a creative process (even when I’m breaking news or analyzing a rumor, I try to offer a perspective for debate and analysis), and I don’t think creativity can be managed with strict rules and app badges. So here’s a short list of new apps that are helping me rethink my workflow. Some of them will stick around, others will probably be deleted – I don’t know. What matters is that taking a step back and reconsidering your work habits is a healthy practice (clearly better than telling your friends you’re going to lose weight or quit smoking) that, I believe, can lead to better relationships, a new knowledge of your workflows, and, ultimately, better results. Remember The Milk - In searching for an alternative to Omnifocus, I decided to give the old RTM a try, for real this time. I found RTM to be a full-featured yet friendly GTD-oriented app with a cool iPad app, a good iPhone client, and a web interface that’s handy, but could use some UI polish. With features like Smart Add, Siri integration and cloud sync, Remember The Milk lets me save my tasks without feeling guility about postponing them. Todo.txt - I use Gina Trapani’s app to easily write down the articles I am working on or would like to write, and delete them. Note & Share - I reviewed Note & Share in an old episode of the App Journal. While this app is packed with functionalities, I use it for a simple purpose: to quickly send new notes to Evernote. ITHOUGHTS MACBOOK FREEĬombined with the iPhone 4S’ dictation, it makes for a fantastic little utility to save your thoughts and ideas into the cloud.ĭo - Do is a free HTML5 and native app for iPhone developed by an internal team at Salesforce.
But don’t let the name fool you, this is no boring enterprise software. Do is a cloud-based task management app for small teams, such as ours. You can create new tasks, assign them to colleagues, attach files, comment on tasks and organize them in projects. You can be notified of new tasks and comments with iOS’ push notifications and email, which I disabled. Do looks great, with an HTML5 web app running smoothly on the web and iPad. Do is free, but it appears a paid plan will be introduced this year. Greplin - I discovered Greplin last week and it’s quickly become the most powerful addition to my workflow. Greplin is basically a search bar for your online life, a service capable of searching the full contents of your Twitter, Gmail, Pinboard, Reddit, Evernote, Basecamp, Campfire accounts and a dozen of other services, including Dropbox.
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