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With so many new productivity applications hitting the market, they each need something unique that sets them apart and fills a gap people didn’t even know existed. So many apps focus so heavily on the GTD mantra that they forget what the experience is like for someone who has no idea what GTD is. If you’re not sure about GTD and want to find out more, I recommend going to the source and checking out Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen (aff. link). Some of these apps try to be unique by “looking” different from the next one. But when it comes down to it, a visual difference only will only go so far. To be truly unique, you need to be something that no one else is.

Taskk is that something.

What Fractals Can Teach Us About Productivity

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I’ve always had a thing for maths. The complexity, the simplicity, and the beauty of numbers. They are the key that unlocks so many different doors in this world. Without maths we’d still be drawing with sticks in the dirt. It is the only language that spans all humanity and units us. So when I first laid my eyes on fractals I was blown away. How could some simple math result in images with so much depth and detail and that never ended? It was truly a boggling moment. There is a lot we can learn from fractals that applies to every aspect of our lives.

Fractals are defined, in a sentence, as a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole. What this means is that when you look at a fractal, then zoom in, it becomes impossible to tell how far zoomed in you are since what you end up looking at is the same as the original. I know, mind crunching stuff.

How I Got Started with Springpad

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I wouldn’t normally do this, but I really wanted to share something with everyone. I was able to secure an amazing deal from Daniel Gold exclusively for readers of Cloud Productivity!

Daniel has released his second ebook all about the new Springpad – Springpad. Smarter Notebooks. Smarter Sharing. A Smarter Way to Get Things Done.

There has been a bit of debate since this release as to which application – Evernote or Springpad – is the best one to use. Firstly, there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from trying both to see which one you are more comfortable with. However, I use both, and for different purposes. Evernote will never leave my side. It’s my memory. I’m often referred to as a “goldfish” since as soon as I’m told something I will promptly forget it. So Evernote has become an invaluable tool for me in every aspect of my life. Springpad has opened up a new world for me now, a world of sharing and collaboration.

How Moredays Makes Productivity More Fun

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There is a huge selection of new productivity applications being released these days and each one has its own unique approach to target a specific audience. There are tools such as OmniFocus that cater to the high-end GTD adepts and then there’s things like Moredays.

While OmniFocus uses contexts, tags, projects and priorities to help you manage your day to day activities, Moredays takes a much more relaxed approach and spans not only tasks, but contacts, events and notes too.

Moredays aims to be a single resource for the everyday human that is looking for a place to manage the day to day. It is not, and doesn’t intend to be, a fully fledged GTD application. Moredays takes a user-friendly, image rich, approach to ensure the user experience is what matters most. So many GTD apps focus so much on the process that they forget about the user and what they’ll need to do in order to use the application properly.

What are Wunderlist and Wunderkit

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If you’re looking around for a cross-platform, easy to use task management application, you’ve probably stumbled across Wunderlist and Wunderkit and you might be wondering what exactly the difference between the two are.

While there are many similarities between the two, Wunderkit takes a much more interactive and social approach to tasks and projects. Wunderlist is simpler and may be a better starting point to help you establish your todo list system.

This video below describes in more detail, what the similarities and differences are between these two application from 6Wunderkinder.

6 Tips For An Amazing Evernote Search

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As you use Evernote more and more and start to really get a feel for just how powerful and flexible it is, you’ll be creating thousands of notes. This means that finding old notes by scrolling through all your notes becomes very difficult. While notebooks and tags do help to separate notes, you will still end up with way too many in each notebook, and assigned to each tag, to make browsing a fast way to recall past notes.

Luckily, Evernote has amazing search capabilities to help you find exactly what you need and fast. Here are six tips to help you become an Evernote search master.

How Your Posture Affects Your Productivity

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When I was a kid my mum always told me to sit up straight and stand up straight. Posture, apparently, is important. But why? When I sat down (with a straight back) recently and thought about this I came to the conclusion that there is in fact three reasons why posture is important.

3 Ways To Save Articles For Later with Evernote

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Recently, I was asked what my preferred method is for saving articles to read later. Was it Instapaper, Read It Later, or perhaps something else? I’ve tried both Instapaper and Read It later and didn’t stick with them. What I found was that I mainly found articles that I wanted to keep for later when I was using my iPhone. The way that both Instapaper and Read It Later work on the iPhone and web browser is through a bookmarklet. These are not the most obvious and intuitive little gadgets to setup. However, it wasn’t for this reason I changed. Both of these services have a free version and a paid/pro version with extra functionality such as the ability to save more articles. I couldn’t work either of these apps into my workflow. My approach, one that works very well, is simply using the every versatile, the every useful, Evernote! And here’s how…

Evernote Template for Setting Realistic Goals

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Following on from my earlier post about how to set and achieve realistic goals, I’m sharing my own goal template I use. This is a template that you can use in Evernote. Or, you can simply write it down somewhere. However, if you’re using my recommended approach for setting and achieving your goals, you’ll want to use Evernote.

How to Set Realistic and Achievable Goals

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Whenever we look at making changes and improvements to our lives we need to set goals and it’s not as easy as it sounds. When I started wanting to change things I would pick what I wanted to change, ponder it for about 10 minutes and then nothing would actually change. The problem was that my 10 minutes of pondering left me with a goal that was so grand and unachievable that I had no hope of reaching it.

That’s not to say that setting grand goals is a bad thing, not by any means – we all still have aspirations of becoming millionaires I’m sure. But what it does mean is that we need to figure out a better way to reach those goals and understand that change doesn’t come instantly or easily.

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