Sixty per cent of my time is spent with customers, forty per cent with investors, thirty per cent with my team and thirty per cent doing work. The result is a busy schedule made easier by these ten great products.
- Pzizz on iPhone : totally essential. Pzizz is a power napping application which I have been using since it was an app on the Mac
- Docscanner on iPhone : constantly running around, so you never have the paper work you need when you are near a fax or scanner. And vice-versa. Docscanner takes better than average photos of documents and then allows you to transform them into scans that are acceptable to lawyers and bankers.
- Berghaus Extrem Incinerator Duvet: London has been freezing these past two months, and I have done much more walking and running around in this wet, snowy city than I would like. My Incinerator Duvet jacked has kept me warm and dry. Plus doubles as an sensory-isolation chamber during power naps. (You need to see it to believe it.)
- Quaker porridge oats : Eaten on most mornings to get me through to at least eleven am.
- Sharemyplaylists : Great for finding a suitable playlist for late night working sessions. Something laid back for writing presentations, some more thumping for building a training set for one of our modules.
- Dropbox : Just have to add my entrepreneur love for Dropbox.
- Xpad : Very simple Mac App for keeping scratch notes. Autosaves, but sadly doesn’t sync easily across Dropbox.
- Chartbeat / Analytics App / Server Density : three apps that help us stay on top of our site performance and uptime. Chartbeat has become completely essential, but Analytics App which is an iPhone app for grabbing headling Google Analytics data during the day. David Mytton’s server density is a useful Nagios-as-a-service.
- Blackberry Bold : Great device for writing emails, to dos and tweets, while carrying a laptop bag in the order hand. Unlike my iPhone I can pretty much navigate this with one hand, while walking/running. It also functions really well in 2G mode, giving me better-than-odds chance of reaching 10pm with a mobile phone that still has batteries.
- iPhone tethering: When it works, money saving. No more £10 trips to Starbucks just to pull a presentation or check something online.
Builds unique sleep environments, allow for refreshing 15 minute power naps during the day. Sadly usually only have time for one every other day.
Number 11 … of course there is a number 11.
Number 11 is a special shout out for Rememberthemilk, a task manager that achieves the simple task of
- Working on the Blackberry via MilkSync
- Working on the iPhone via its free app
- Being accessible on any of the two computers I regularly uses (via the Website). It even has an offline version using Google Gears
Now Rememberthemilk deserves a special mention. I have found it horribly complicated to use, with way to many features for my basic needs. And a very weird web interface. However, unlike Omnifocus, Things and any number of other to apps I have bought and paid for, RTM does what I need it to do. It is accessible from iPhone, BB and laptop. Syncs easily. Allows one handed task collection on a BB. And now that I have learnt the key board shortcuts, works very nicely indeed.
So those are a few things that make my life a little easier. Would love to hear yous.
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