You can organise your to-dos any way you want, with due dates, reminders, and sub-tasks for bigger projects. It’s simple, cheap (there’s a free version), and works on any platform (Windows, iPhone, Android, etc). Todoist is my productivity app of choice for task management. It’s pretty insane that you get that much storage as part of the business plan. And for business stuff, we use Google Workspace, which has unlimited storage – we’ve used 20.3 terabytes of Google Drive storage as a team so far. I have a personal Google Drive account (2TB storage) for my own photos and documents. It’s simple, uber-reliable, and does the job. I’m Google Drive all the way, and have been for the last 10 years. Price: 15GB free, 100GB $1.99/month, 2TB $9.99/monthĪlthough I’m an Apple fanboy, I don’t use iCloud for file management. I never have to worry or wonder about what I’m doing next. The way I run my life, unless something is in my calendar it basically doesn’t exist. And Fantastical will add that to my calendar with all the relevant information. I just type ‘15th of April 3-5pm, meeting with Taimur at Nandos’. For example, here’s how I create a new calendar event. One of the things I like most about Fantastical is its natural language processing. Although it’s Mac only, it can connect to Google, iCloud and Outlook calendars. Fantasticalįantastical is the calendar app I’ve used for the last five years. A calendar to manage your schedule, a task management system to track to-do’s, and a file management system for all your documents. You need three main things in the Coordinate department. □️ My Five Categoriesīroadly speaking, I have five categories for my productivity apps, based on what I use them for:Ĭoordinate – to coordinate my schedule, to-do’s, and keep track of documents.Ĭommunicate – for chatting with friends, and communicating productively with my team.Ĭonsume – for reading, listening to podcasts, and soaking up knowledge.Ĭapture – for note-taking, highlighting, and retaining useful bits of information from the things I consume.Ĭreate – where the magic happens, the apps I use to draft + create my own original content. Now, I use them to run multiple businesses and grow a 3M-subscriber YouTube channel. I used most of these apps in my old life as a medical student and junior doctor, to help me study and create videos on the side. I’ve kept all the good apps, and deleted any that weren’t efficient, or easy to work with. It would be pretty rad if you could highlight a few lines on a page, click the Instapaper bookmarklet and have those lines saved as a highlight.I’ve refined my collection of ‘best productivity apps’ over many, many years. Of course, I already have a feature request. It still needs a faster background update, and to play nicer with IFTTT, but highlights is such a killer feature that I just switched Instapaper back to my first home screen, and bought a three-month sub. I’ve always preferred the reading experience in Instapaper – it continues to amaze me that I can choose between more than one serif and one san serif font in Pocket, for example – but features-wise Instapaper has been lacking. This has worked OK, but now I get the advantage of having a proper library of highlights synced across Instapaper on all my devices, as well as auto-adding to Pinboard and Evernote. I’ve been rolling my own quotes highlights for a while now, using the description field of Pinboard as a place to keep the highlighted section, and having IFTTT send the result to Evernote.
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