Mike Schmitz joins me this week to talk through the use of analog tools and how that can help us understand when and where to use the appropriate digital tool.

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Mike Schmitz - Asian Efficiency

The Productivity Show

The Sweet Setup

mikeschmitz.me

Thou Shalt Hustle

The Important (Not Urgent) Projects

TPS57: Advanced OmniFocus Setup + Workflow w/ Joe Buhlig

TPS11: Joe Buhlig

OmniFocus Workflows: Shawn Blanc - Learn OmniFocus

Discussion about daily planning

The Dash/Plus System

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard

Moleskine Evernote Smart Notebook

Sketchnotes

The Sketchnote Workbook

Steal Like an Artist - Austin Kleon

Show Your Work! - Austin Kleon

Choosing Tools for GTD® - YouTube

How to Think Like a Geek

Cortex #26: Pick your Poison

Automation in OmniFocus 2.14 (now in TestFlight)

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Here’s an update on the new TextExpander pricing and a deep dive into why I wrote a script that shuffles my tasks. That’s right. There’s a big benefit to randomizing a task list.

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TextExpander Adjustments - Smile

What I’m doing now - Derek Sivers

Now - Joe Buhlig

Mac Power Users #314: Trials and Tribulations of Katie’s iPad - Relay FM

OFScripts - Task Shuffle AppleScript

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I go on a rant about building websites instead of apps. That leads me to a subsidiary rant about the polarizing changes to TextExpander.

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Discourse

Discourse does need an App, here is why

The New TextExpander - Smile

Smile Press Release

Introducing 1Password for Families

Thoughts on TextExpander 6 - mikeschmitz.me

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When you have a large amount of data available, it’s easy to be paralyzed in making a decision about how to analyze it. The same is true when you have a lot of tasks and little clarity.

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Analysis paralysis - Wikipedia

The Truth About Frogs

Articles about Reviews

The battle between your present and future self - TED Talk

Making Time for Contexts

A Time For Things - Patrick Rhone

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In this episode, I go through the ideas behind agile development and applying them to get a minimum viable product out the door. This is exactly how OmniGroup has now gotten to the point of bringing themes back to OmniFocus. Oh, and I completely missed daylight savings.

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Agile software development - Wikipedia

Waterfall model - Wikipedia

Minimum viable product - Wikipedia

Ken Case — The Omni Group

Kens tweet about styling

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I’ve slowly drifted away from the mission that gets me excited each day. And that’s due to a lack of focus and alignment with my goals.

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The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

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I reflect on my tendencies to fall into a procrastination pit. And a reader emailed me about web designers posing as developers so I go off on a rant.

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Using GTD As A Woodworker

Dvorak Transition

Home Screens: Joe Buhlig

Working with OmniFocus

Dictating vs Typing

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Let’s talk about lurkers. Well, I’ll talk about them. You can just listen. And that’s okay because there’s a lot of value in lurking.

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Discussion site

Discourse

The FeverBee Community

I was called out

Using Drafts

Disqus

Macstock Conference & Expo

22: Addiction to Numbers

An Alternative to Evernote

Using GTD As A …

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Coming up with ideas doesn’t have to be hard. There are four ways I create new ideas. And I had a moment of insight about being content at a birthday party for our girls.

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Using Omnifocus for Someday/Maybe Lists

Pocket

Feedly

My Omnifocus Setup and Workflow

The Value of Tradition

8: Waiting to Upgrade

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With my recent move away from Evernote, I’ve made the decision to leave my project codes behind. And although there are serious competitors to Evernote, I’m staying away from them.

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Creating Personal Project Codes

An Alternative to Evernote

Heavy duty floating book shelves

Dvorak Transition

Quiver

Scrivener

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