Comments on: Manage Your Business on Your Mac & iPhone Giveaway

By: Patrick Sledz

Patrick Sledz — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:09:01 +0000

* How do you manage your business and schedule?
Day specific events come on the calendar. The calendar is managed in Outlook (with Exchange) and is also pushed or sometimes pulled) on my Iphone calendar.
Time management is a fable. Time can’t be managed. You can only manage what you do in a given timeframe.

* What tips do you have for being more productive?
Empty your head and write everything you need to do (professionally and privately) down (paper or electronic) .
Create actions on each of these items you have written down
Organize it in projects (more then one action concerning to get the same outcome)
Review it on a regular basis
DO

Be prepared on input that just blows away everything you planned for that day.
Keep track of things (tasks, actions) that you are waiting for on somebody else.
Keep your body and mind in shape! Exercise
Visualize wild success
Do things that give you a quick win, so you get started and will do that are not that pleasant or that don’t give you a quick win.
Something more abstract is to think about your job description. Sometime you lay your energy in the wrong bucket because of lack of knowledge or your job description.
Read “Gettings things done “.

* What kind of hardware/software do you need in order to be productive?
Pen and paper!
Outlook (with Exchange server)
Iphone
Remember the milk
Evernote (as a capture tool)

By: Paul Jaques

Paul Jaques — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:00:30 +0000

Always try to make use of ‘Things’ to keep track of what needs doing on projects.

Would be hopeless and completely lost without my Macbook Pro, iCal and Mail!

By: Shane Cooke

Shane Cooke — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:44:01 +0000

I usually require an iPhone, my 17″ MBP, and a notebook in order to stay productive. I’d like to utilize something Daylite to augment my procedures.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:41:39 +0000

In order to be more productive, I use GTD apps as well as multiple lists of tasks to do. I also try to avoid distraction by only having 1 window visible at a time.

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:37:07 +0000

I’ve never been more productive then when I switched to the Mac. About two years ago I moved to the Mac and I became so much more productive. When you can start doing work and the OS works with you instead of fighting against you and getting in the way your production rate skyrockets.

By: O Waters

O Waters — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:16:52 +0000

How do you manage your business and schedule?
- I heavily use the application ‘Things’ by CulturedCode together with iCal. This helps me keep on top of tasks in a GTD fashion whilst managing my day to day schedule.
- I use ‘Billings’ by MarketCircle to track time spent on projects, publish invoices and track payment.
- Recently moved my accounts over to Xero.com which has made things a lot easier in terms of accounting.

What tips do you have for being more productive?
- Using a GTD app has greatly improved my productivity. Setting up for the following day the night before helps give you an active start to the morning.
- Set your email to check less frequently. Prioritise emails and then act up on those with high importance at a specific time every day.

What kind of hardware/software do you need in order to be productive?
- I pretty much depend upon my MacBook Pro and iPhone for productivity. Without them I’d be lost with what to do!
- Things by CulturedCode keeps me on top of tasks.
- Billings by MarketCircle keeps my time tracking for jobs in order and manages invoicing.
- iCal for general event scheduling and reminders.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:39:04 +0000

We plan out all our projects (Milestones, tasks & resources) once we have the go ahead we schedule the tasks in to our calendars to manage our time. We’re still assessing a number of project managements solutions/software at the moment.
Daylight looks great so we’ll add that to the list.

By: Mariohn

Mariohn — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:41:47 +0000

1. Always set alarms and reminders on Iphone for deadlines and Task. Tp be more productive i try to work when there is no people around the lest people the lest distractions you will have.

By: Montana Flynn

Montana Flynn — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:46:36 +0000

I manage my business through the wonderful Billings software for OSX and email. I have been intrigued by Daylite for a long time, as my mom is a Filemaker Pro developer.

By: S Miranda

S Miranda — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:20:47 +0000

What tips do you have for being more productive?

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