Less Work

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  • Todoist, Evernote & Fountain Pens | Carl Pullein

    What sort of work do you do day‐to‐day?

    Carl works as communication coach in Korea and also as University visiting professor at teaching a course called Business Creativity.

    What is your daily to‐do list tool? And why?

    • Todoist (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows/Web) (Both for personal and work tasks)
    • OmniFocus (iOS/Mac) (Used in the past)
    • How do you go about taking notes?

      • Evernote (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows) (For both personal and work notes)
      • What do you use when it comes to organising your calendar?

        • Google Calendar (Android/iOS) (Integrates better with Gmail)
        • Fantastical 2 (Mac/iOS) (Best mobile app)
        • Apple Calendar (Mac/iOS) (Clean mobile view)
        • Do you use a certain tool for tracking projects? Or do you solely

          use a task list?

          • Asana (iOS/Android) (For a big picture view)
          • Steve Dotto's video on Using Asana for managing content - here
          • How Carl uses Asana - here
          • What hardware do you use for work? (phone, laptop, pc)

            • 27-inch iMac (from 2012)
            • MacBook Pro (2 years old)
            • iPhone X
            • What are your 3 favoured apps for getting the work done? (Eg.

              marketing, designing)

              • Keynote (For presentation design and logo design sketch)
              • Photoshop (Used only occasionally)
              • Illustrator
              • Ulysses (For short and medium form writing)
              • Scrivener (For writing books)
              • What are your team communication tools?

                • KakaoTalk (For communication and share files with group classes of some companies managers)
                • What app do you use for handling emails?

                  • Newton Mail
                  • Apple Mail (Used occasionally)
                  • Gmail (For online shopping and newsletter)
                  • What's your planning process? How do you plan for the week or

                    month ahead?

                    • Carl starts a note in Evernote for any new specific projects and creates a list of tasks at the bottom of the note, then the tasks and copied and pasted into Todoist.
                    • Any of other notable apps you do like to mention that you use to

                      get things done?

                      • Numbers by Apple (For simple spreadsheets, to track data like YouTube subscribers)
                      • 32 min
                      • OmniFocus 2, Asana & Jira love | Mike Schmitz

                        What sort of work do you do day-to-day?

                        • A range of things, find out what Mike Schmitz works on [here].
                        • What is your daily to-do list tool? And why?

                          • OmniFocus 2 (iOS/Mac) (For Personal Items)
                          • Jira by Atlassian (iOS/Android/Web) (For Team Tool)
                          • How do you go about taking notes?

                            • Drafts (iOS/Apple Watch) (For capture notes) (Runners)
                            • NvALT(Mac) (For quickly note-capture on Mac)
                            • GoodNotes (iOS) (For sketch notes)
                            • Reddit: GoodNotes 5 rumours
                            • Drafts: How Siri and Drafts work
                            • What do you use when it comes to organising your calendar?

                              • BusyCal 3 (Mac/iOS) (Week views, no natural language)
                              • Fantastical 2 (Mac/iOS) (For Mac, uses the menu bar + iOS full time)
                              • Do you use a certain tool for tracking projects?

                                • Jira by Atlassian (iOS/Android/Web) (Uses SCRUM method)
                                • OmniFocus 2 (iOS/Mac) (For Personal projects)
                                • Asana (iOS/Android/Web) (For family goals/planning goals)
                                • What hardware do you use for work? (phone, laptop, pc)

                                  • 15-inch MacBook Pro (late 2017) with Touch Bar
                                  • iPhone X
                                  • iPad 10.5inch Pro (with Apple Pencil)
                                  • OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock
                                  • Shure Beta 87 A Microphone
                                  • Heil PR 40 Microphone
                                  • What are your 3 favoured apps for getting the work done?

                                    • Logic Pro X
                                    • SoundSoap 5: (For cleaning audio files)
                                    • ScreenFlow: (Screen-recording technology)
                                    • Ulysses: (Beautiful, markdown editor for writing)
                                    • Blog: Ulysses Premium announcement:
                                    • SetApp: The netflix for app subscriptions
                                    • What are your team communication tools?

                                      • HipChat by Atlassian (Used alongside Jira and Confluence)
                                      • Slack (More for communities)
                                      • 50 min

                                      About Less Work

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                                      Less Work is a weekly podcast on how teams and individuals are using AI to cut the busywork and spend more time on the human work that drives growth, revenue and success.

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