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How to Link Notes and Tasks with Wunderkit

Wunderkit was launched by 6Wunderkinder early in 2012 to an audience that was madly awaiting its release. After much hype and sneaky previews, Wunderkit arrived. Many people anticipated Wunderkit to be the next version of Wunderlist – building on it’s current features and functionality. However, what arrived was a very different product. Wunderkit was always meant to be a very different tool than Wunderlist. Some things that Wunderlist could do, Wunderkit could not. And of course, many things that Wunderkit could do, Wunderlist could not.

One particular thing that was raised very quickly (and is still raised today) is that while Wunderkit has tasks and it has notes, there’s no way to attach a note to a task. This was very simple to do with Wunderlist with the note icon that appears when hovering on any task. There are, however, two ways to achieve the same result with Wunderkit (attaching more information to a task) that I’m going to explain here.

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 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.

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.

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.

7 Tips To Cut Your Meeting Times In Half

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How many meetings do you have in a week, or even in a day? If you’re like most people, you are probably involved in two or three meetings per day. Each one taking around one to two hours of your time. How much time in each of these meetings do you think is spent on the details, on what the meeting was called for in the first place? Not much, maybe twenty to thirty minutes! So what happens to the rest of the time? Firstly, a meeting rarely starts on time, so there’s about 10 minutes lost. There’s the introductions and laid back chit-chat at the beginning that might last for 10 to 15 minutes. Sidetracks and tangents happen about 5 or 6 times per meeting and can last a few minutes each (or take over the meeting if you’re not careful). Banter and jokes to make sure people are still paying attention takes up more time. And finally, there’s the thank-you’s and good bye’s at the end that might take another 5 to 10 minutes. In the time that’s left, you have to power through as much content and questions as you had originally planned for the full time the meeting was scheduled for. Oh, and let’s not forget how long your travel time to and from the meeting takes. That’s a huge consideration. If you have to go out for a meeting that’s scheduled for say two hours, you should probably block out at least four hours in your calendar right away – your travel time will be about an hour either side to be safe! It all seems like so much wasted time! Here are seven tips to help you cut your meeting times in half and be more productive!

How To Get More Done With Focus Booster

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Recently a friend introduced me to focus booster. It has changed the way I work. It helps me to eliminate distractions and get a lot more done in much less time, and it gives me more breaks!

Typically, when you review your task list you’ll pick an item on the list that “feels” like it’s ready to be taken care of. You then might set about actually doing that task. Normally you won’t have much of a deadline to work to, or if you do it’s not a short term deadline. This means that its importance doesn’t seem as high. Then there’s the constant barrage of distractions to handle. There’s the problem of your email client constantly reminding you of the hundreds of unread emails in your inbox. Your colleague pings you over instant messenger and asks you a question. Then you remember that you wanted to follow up something you noticed on the news in the morning. Before you know it half an hour has passed and you’re no closer to being able to tick the task off as having been done.

Join the Cloud Productivity Wunderkit Workspace

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Wunderkit has now gone into public beta. This means that everyone can now get to know and love the wonder that is Wunderkit.

One of Wunderkit’s unique strengths is the concept of public workspaces. Typically, you would imagine a set of tasks, or a project to be very private, either to an individual, or to a team. Wunderkit, however, has cleverly bridged together the worlds of productivity and social with these public workspaces with some amazing results.

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