In the last episode, Art asked a poignant and thought-provoking question of the ProductivityCast team? "What would it take to change to the opposite platform or operating system than the one you're currently on?" It piqued our interest to think and discuss this, so that's what we're doing on this episode! Enjoy!

Have you thought about a change to the opposite platform, operating system, or ecosystem than you're currently using? What were your experiences? Let us know; we love feedback and user experiences! Also, please subscribe, and also leave a rating on your favorite podcast app/directory. And, thank you for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

WWDC (Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference)

Star Wars Edge of The Empire RPG: Beyond The Rim

Star Wars Force and Destiny RPG Beginner Game

Google Drive

Dropbox

PushBullet

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud

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the one question we didn't answer we

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whole separate discussion would you

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switch is there something that would

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compel you to switch from one to the

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other and that's a really hard question

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so is it really the device that's making

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the difference or is it us

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welcome everybody to productivity cast

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today we are going to have a

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continuation of last week's conversation

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And, the gloves come off! In this episode, the ProductivityCast gang dukes out the merits of a productive smartphone. We discuss the specific models we use, customization, productivity app selection, ease of use / intuitiveness, form factor, customer / technical support, and how to be most productive on your smartphone.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Handspring

PalmPilot

#iPadOnly by Augusto Pinaud

Appification

Microsoft Office Professional

Quantified Self

Huawei Watch

AndroidWear

Instant (Android/iOS)

Android Support

Apple Genius Bar

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and

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Augusto Pinaud welcome back everybody to

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productivity cast episode 10 I wish had

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a kazoo it's a it's the birthday tenth

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episode of productivity cast so thank

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you all for listening and thank you for

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joining us here today I'm joined with a

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gusto pin out my co-host as well as

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Francis Wade and Art Gelwicks so we are all

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together here today for this episode

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let's get into it today we are going to

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mostly fight in good good faith and good

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effort about smartphone productivity and

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If you are looking to purchase your first mobile tablet, or you're in the market to buy a new one, you're in luck! In this episode, Ray, Augusto and Francis tackle some of the important questions you should ask yourself about what kind of mobile tablet you should own.

As a quick overview, please take note of the following criteria you can use to make a decision:

* Operating System – Choose the operating system that matches your smartphone.

* If you don’t have a smartphone, compare Android, iOS and Windows operating systems against one another by the features you're most likely to use, not the marginal features.

* Choose the right tablet format factor for your productivity needs.

* App parity, or select based on the need of a specific app(s).

* Decide on a budget.

* Choose a few tablets based on operating system, form factor, app parity, and budget to test in your local electronics store.

Now, go enjoy this cast! Give us feedback! And, thank you for listening and please send us your questions!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Amazon Kindle Fire tablets

Day One (iOS/Mac journal software)

OmniFocus 2 (iOS/Mac GTD-inspired software)

iCalendar Sync Cloud

Google Chrome Remote Desktop

Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Evernote

ASUS Chromebook Flip

Microsoft Surface Pro 4

Lenovo Yoga and Yoga Book

UX (user experience / user design)

Palm Foleo

Jeff Hawkins

Amazon Fire Kids Edition

Facebook developers forced to use Android smartphones until it's better

Google Maps

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personal world better to live a more

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Let’s get ready to ruuuummmmmblllllle! We’re going to battle until the last spreadsheet software is standing! Okay, not really. But, isn't that an exciting way to start anything!?

In this episode, we introduce our latest, regular podcast contributor, Art Gelwicks of The Idea Pump, to ProductivityCast. We’re excited to now have Francis and Art join us going forward and really increase the value of diverse productivity perspectives and knowledge. We each come at the world of personal productivity from different angles and backgrounds, and we believe that strengthens our ability on ProductivityCast to get to universal axioms as well as the deeper discussions of differences in personalities and workflows, from which you, our listeners, will benefit.

So, let’s get on with the discussion about the pro’s and con’s of the most popular spreadsheet software--and their productive uses!

Enjoy! Give us feedback! We love to hear from you and send your questions and suggestions. And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Art Gelwicks

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Early history of Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

Google Sheets

Apple Numbers

LibreOffice Calc

SharePoint

Microsoft Access

G Suite ← this is a free 30-day trial of G Suite for new accounts (Thank Ray, Google Small Business Advisor - Productivity! ;-)

Getting Things Done in Google Sheets / Excel (template and video tutorial)

Evernote ← Sign up for a free Evernote account here!

CRM (This is a Webinar Ray presented on How to Choose a CRM for Small Business)

OneNote

Google Apps Script

Google Slides

Apple Pages

iCloud

Apple Keynote

OpenDocument format

Google Drive

Microsoft Excel Training

Google Sheets Training

In the last episode, Augusto posed a question for the ProductivityCast team about how we chose the hardware we use today, to be most productive. Much of the discussion centers on operating systems, as you’ll see from this second part of that discussion, about our own choices in hardware, software ecosystems, and operating systems. They’re so intrinsically connected today. Though, as Ray will note, that’s all going to change eventually!

Do you have thoughts or questions after listening to today’s episode about choosing the best productivity hardware (or platform) for your situation? Let us know and we’ll try to answer your question on an upcoming episode!

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Parallels Desktop Emulator

GNU with Linux

Test Drive PC Game

PageMaker (Mac)

Microsoft Publisher

Open Source Software

Scribus

Inkscape

PhotoShop

Google Drive

Mozy Backup

The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz, PhD

Open Document Format

How to Install ChromeOS on an Old Computer/Laptop

How to Install Chrome OS on Any PC and Turn It Into a Chromebook

NeverNote/NixNote (Evernote alternative for Linux)

Adult scoliosis

Scrivener

Things

OmniFocus

DayOne

1Password

Andromeda - Fuschia

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On this cast, we are excited to introduce a new member of the ProductivityCast team, Francis Wade of 2TimeLabs. Francis joins us on this conversation about getting control of your hardware. We begin with this episode on our hardware setup at the moment and why we have chosen the hardware we have. In the next episode, we dive into the practical components of choosing good hardware for your productivity system.

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Francis Wade

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Android OS

Lenovo

HP

Apple iPad

Google Chrome Remote Desktop

Apple iPhone

Mere Presence of a Cell Phone Distracting Says USM Professor

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, PhD

Getting Things Done by David Allen

PushBullet

Mac OS X

Toshiba

Linux Mint

Evernote

KVM switch

20-20-20 Rule for Vision

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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Augusto Pinaud welcome back everybody to

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another episode of productivitycast I'm

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Ray Sidney-Smith and I am joined with

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Augusto Pinaud today we actually have the

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pleasure of introducing a new

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it's Francis Wade the founder of

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2Time Labs and ScheduleU in his

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On this cast, Ray and Augusto discuss overcoming resistance, using Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art and the psychological and practical aspects of dealing with resistance.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Steven Pressfield

The Legend of Bagger Vance (book) (movie) (IMDB)

The War of Art

Turning Pro

Do the Work

Seth Godin

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Criticism of The War of Art by Psychologist Frederick Heide (See section entitled, “Criticism”)

Changeology by John C. Norcross, PhD (Productivity Book Group discussion) (website with exercises)

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman, PhD

Pugh decision matrix

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productivity and today on this show we

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are gonna be talking about resistance

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there is probably nobody better to

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discuss resistance than the author that

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I know his sort of his Wikipedia

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After our discussion on “Second Screen Productivity” (Episode 003), Augusto and Ray were discussing off-mic about the future of Google's Android and its proliferation around the globe on most mobile devices in use today. We decided to have a high-level discussion (let's plainly call it what it is, pontificating) about the current state of Google’s mobile operating system and how its changes (along with other operating systems) affect users’ productivity.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Android OS

ChromeOS / Chromium OS

ChromeBit (on Amazon)

G Suite for Education (a/k/a Google for Education)

Chromebook (List of Android App-Supported devices, including non-touchscreen)

Chromebox

Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

Lenovo Yoga Book

Free Software

Samsung DeX Dock (turn your Samsung Galaxy S8 phone into a desktop computer)

#iPadOnly

Internet of Things

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personal world better to live a more

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fulfilling productive life then you've

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come to the right place

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welcome to productivity cast the weekly

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show about all things productivity here

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another episode of productivity cast the

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weekly show about all things personal

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productivity

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Ray and Augusto recently both obtained new mobile tablets. We talk about how we've implemented them in our work and personal lives, and why mobile tablets are becoming a powerful primary computing device.

Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

* Evernote

* #iPadOnly by Augusto Pinaud and Michael Sliwinski

* Split Views on iOS

* Split Screen on Android

* Feedly

* Google News and Weather

* OverDrive

* Amazon Kindle

* Stitcher

* DuoLingo

* Coursera

* Udemy

* Google Play Music

* IFTTT (If This Then That)

* Chrome Remote Desktop (including iOS)

* TeamViewer

* Adobe Premiere

* Audacity

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show about all things productivity here

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television and you're accessing

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other information or interacting with

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social media while you are watching

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Writing productively is as much a skill as it is an art. And, you probably find yourself writing more today than you might think. When it comes to being productive, your ability to write well is of paramount importance. In this episode, Ray and Augusto discuss how they approach and the tools they use for writing productively, and hopefully it gives you some perspective on your writing and productivity.

Enjoy! Ask us your questions, and give us feedback! And, thanks for listening!

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In this Cast - On Writing Productively

Ray Sidney-Smith

Augusto Pinaud

Show Notes - On Writing Productively

Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.

Annie Proulx

Was Charles Dickens paid by the word?

Google Docs (Google Docs Speech to text functionality) - Google Drive

If you’re wanting to sign-up for G Suite to securely use Google apps for your business, sign up for a free trial here.

Evernote

Scrivener

Grammarly / iCab mobile browser

Apple Pages

yWriter 5

Boomerang Gmail - Respondable

Zotero

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Imposter Syndrome

Brene Brown TED Talks

Slack

Pareto Principle

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Robert Hass

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come to the right place

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show about all things productivity here