Add some color and fun to your Things to-do list by adding emojis to the titles of your project and area titles. The emojis can also be helpful in making the project/area a task is associated with stand out.…
Google has finally introduced the concept of a “Family,” where you can still keep your own personal accounts but also have a way to link all of your family members’ Google accounts so that sharing calendar events, notes, and photos is extremely…
Gmail on iOS has an awesome new feature that allows you to snooze emails! You click a button and the email will be hidden until your selected date and time, at which point it pops back into your inbox. This fits perfectly…
In keeping with my minimalist principles, I’m a big proponent of keeping phone notifications to a minimum. I currently only allow notifications from Messages, Mail, and Things for iPhone. I recently turned on Facebook Messenger notifications because I started using that app…
Something I’ve been using a lot lately is this handy iOS feature that allows me to tell Siri to add a reminder for something and that reminder gets automatically pulled into my Things for Mac app. In order to do this,…
I surpassed my yearly goal of reading 30 books and it’s only June. I definitely sandbagged that challenge. I started realizing how expensive this hobby would be if it hadn’t been for my “secret” to saving hundreds of dollars on ebooks:…
As I write this, both my work and personal email inboxes have only a total of two emails in them combined. This isn’t 100% “Inbox Zero,” but it’s pretty close. What is Inbox Zero? My concept of Inbox Zero is that you…
Since the start of the year, I’ve been using my Hobinichi Techo Cousin journal to keep track of things I wanted to turn into daily habits. I really liked the idea of being able to quickly see how I’ve been doing month…
March is a birthday-filled month for us for some reason. I recently purchased five gifts for friends’ and friends’ kids’ birthdays. My productivity trick for never forgetting to buy birthday gifts is simply setting up recurring scheduled tasks in my to-do list app,…
Image from Tempo So the other day something horrible happened. My work calendar stopped being pulled in by my iPhone calendar app, Tempo. So I deleted it, thinking I could just reinstall. When I went into the App Store to re-download Tempo,…