Today, Mikell Taylor joins us to talk about OmniPlan. She is a long-time robotics geek focused on making robots that are useful and practical.

Mikell’s honed her specialized expertise working with companies like BlueFin Robotics and Rethink Robotics. Today, she’s the Principal Technical Program Manager at Amazon Robotics, where OmniPlan helps her bring order to chaos and ensure positive outcomes for her team.

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Today, we chat with Robby Burns.  Robby’s a music educator, freelance percussionist, and technology specialist residing Ellicot City, Maryland.  He’s the author of "Digital Organization Tips for Music Teachers," published by Oxford University Press. He speaks about music, education, and technology on his podcast Music Ed Tech Talk.

Andrew and Robby chat about his routine use of OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, and OmniOutliner to make the most of every day.  Robby’s workflow helps him achieve more in less time: whether it’s designing seating charts in OmniGraffle, implementing OmniOutliner’s flexible styles to view lesson plans while teaching, or focusing on the “photocopier” tag in OmniFocus to batch-related tasks.

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Today, we’re joined by Randy J. Hunt. Randy’s served as head of Design at Grab, Head of Design at Artsy, VP of Design for Etsy, and the author of Product Design for the Web.  He’s currently the Chief Product Officer at Morning, a Coffee Tech Company.

Randy shares his refreshing, thoughtfully disciplined approach to productivity.  Using restraint as an superpower, Randy attributes the accumulated benefit of his second-brain to “sticking with it" in OmniFocus for over a decade.  Randy and Andrew talk about “daisy-chaining” workflows, the power of complete capture in OmniFocus, and the benefit of restraint to avoid over-building your system.

Today, we talk with Frank Denneman.  Frank works for VMWare as the Chief Technologist in the CTO’s office of their Cloud Infrastructure Business Group. He's the author of multiple books, including “vSphere 6.5 Host Technical Deep Dive” and the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series.

Andrew and Frank chat about using OmniGraffle to communicate visual ideas in their simplest forms.  Frank shares a few tools from his belt: Fibonacci sequences for layouts, how to wrangle visual clutter, the role of consistent color palettes in communicating ideas with clarity, and more.

Today, we’re spending time with Alec Johnson.  Alec is a public speaker, engineer, and online presenter living in Thailand for the last 14 years.  His passion for productivity and daily live-streaming can be viewed via his TakeOneTech YouTube channel.  From content creation to inspirational lists, OmniFocus helps him to manage it all.

In this episode, Andrew and Alec deconstruct his productivity workflow.  Using OmniFocus, Streamdecks, nvALT, and more - Alec has been consistently creating one helpful YouTube video each day.

Thirty (yes, 30!!) years of OmniGroup.com, 100 Episodes of the Omni Show, AND the 5th anniversary of this podcast? We try to contain our excitement as we reminisce with Ken Case. Various guests from past Omni Show episodes also send their greetings.

In this episode, Ken and Andrew time-travel to 1992...when it took all morning (and 35 floppy disks) to install an OS, Steve Jobs was at NeXT, and the internet was limited only by our imagination (and corresponding modem speeds).

While many things have changed over the last 30 years, at least one thing's been constant: our love of creating great tools that make people more productive.

Here's to you — our community — and here's to another 30 amazing years.

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Today, we’re talking with Leah Ferguson.  Leah’s a Canadian designer who creates experiences in the digital and built environment through way-finding and information architecture. In her spare time, she loves helping people navigate the world of personal knowledge management.

In this episode, Leah and Andrew talk about the power of environmental cues, context, and forward-thinking in reaching peak productivity.

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Today, we’re joined by Professor Inger Mewborn (Director of Researcher Development at Australian National University) and Jason Downs (Deputy Director, Quality and Standards at La Trobe University). Collectively, they host a great productivity podcast called “On the Reg.”

In this episode, they talk about using tags to stay sane, teaching others how to stay productive, and implementing a magical combination of both OmniFocus and the Bullet Journal. Professor Inger, also known around the interwebs as “Thesiswhisperer," may even school Andrew on a few Australianisms along the way (Milk Bar?  Who knew?).

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Ken Case, CEO, joins the show to break down his post-WWDC 2022 Roadmap.

What’s the latest? What’s amazingly cool? And — the annual question — just how much work will we be doing this summer?

With continual OmniFocus 4 progress, OmniFocus for the Web updates, single sign-on (SSO) authentication for enterprise customers, and more - there’s plenty of exciting stuff to talk about.

Andrew & Ken also speculate on what just-announced features might be useful in Omni software down the road.  Listen in for all the latest details.

You can find Ken Case on Twitter @kcase.

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It's probably no surprise that writing software is a somewhat difficult task. There's an unfathomable amount of iteration and detective work that goes into creating a product that feels intuitive for the new user, yet familiar to the ardent fan.

Surprisingly, the art of crafting effective software documentation demands some of the exact same iteration and detective skills. Inserting helpful guidance at just the right point in the user conversation (without over-explaining) can be a tricky dance.

Luckily, Dave Lonning, documentation wrangler, is up to the challenge. He returns to the Omni show (Episode 10, for you longtime listeners!) to talk about how his role has shifted over the last few years. Andrew and Dave discuss how he's approached the fresh challenges emerging in the software documentation process.

You can find Dave @davelonning on Twitter.

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