August 2012 Archives | Cloud Productivity

A Wunderkit Review by a Real User

It’s about time that I produced a Wunderkit review. It’s been about 8 months since the Wunderkit beta was made public and I have intentionally avoided writing any kind of review for a long while. For this Wunderkit review, I didn’t want to write about “this” feature or “that” feature, but instead how this tool has changed my life, because that is the true testament to any productivity system, tool or process. I’m not interested in contexts and time tracking or whatever. I want to have a simpler and more productive life.

And now I have. Here’s how it works.

3 Ways To Go Paperless

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We’re all hippies. We all want to save the planet, have world peace and solve world hunger. These are big issues, but we can have some small impact on each. How? Being nice to people will have a knock-on effect – BAM! World peace; don’t order or buy to much food when you shop or go out – BAM! Leaving food for others. But what about saving the planet? Here I want to share some ideas on how to use less paper, and as paper comes from trees, save more trees, and what do trees do? Well, that’s a question for a tree person, but they are important.

Going paperless sounds easy. After all, how much paper do you actually use at home or at work? It can’t be that much, right? Wrong. You use paper much, much more than you realise. There’s bills that come in, the shopping list you’ve jotted down, manuals on how to work your TV and DVD, receipts (how I loathe paper receipts), contracts and invoices, and the list goes on.

Here, then, are 3 ways that you can start to use today to cut down on the amount of paper you have laying around in the kitchen, on your desk and buried in a filing cabinet.

How not to be the crazy person running around the letterbox

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It’s time to talk about money and financial freedom again. I’ve previously written about getting back in control of your money, and now I’d like to share with you how I have learnt to take the next step and “fill the big bill bucket”. The problem is this, and we all know it. You’re plugging away, working your job through the week, taking your family out on the weekend, enjoying being with your friends and then, one day, quite unexpectedly, you receive one of those annoying letters in the mail. Those stupid little letters with the little window. What happens next is usually one of two reactions:

Shock. You fling you arms in the air and run around your letterbox yelling and screaming in a panic.
Stunned silence. You simple can not believe what you’re holding in your hands. Surely, this cannot be true!

3 Things to Capture Tasks So They Never Get Missed

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I forget things. It’s just what I do. I have decided my brain is better at figuring things out than remembering anything. Which is a bit crap since the brain is where all memories are (lucky there are these things called “cameras”). So, because my brain doesn’t like to remember things, I rely on more permanent storage systems instead.

Before having a “system”, I would think of something I needed to do – it would just “pop” into my head as an idea or something that really needed attention – then I would really try to concentrate and commit that action to memory, hoping I could recall it when I was in the right place at the right time. Or, I’d turn to the person next to me and say “remind me to…”. How many times do you think either of these things worked? You wouldn’t even need one hand to count it.

So I had to come up with new, more permanent and reliable ways to remember all those things that I needed and wanted to get done. I think this was the start of my journey into the world of productivity applications, “getting things done” (GTD) and all that good stuff you can find around the web.

Here are three things I use to capture tasks, ideas and everything else, so that I can easily get to it when I need to, wherever I might be.