Written on February 2nd, 2012 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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As our lives get busier and the world gets faster, our workload seems to be just too much some times.
Web apps are getting faster, better, with incredible user interfaces and maybe similar or even better than stand alone local applications.
These two statements above seem to have nothing in common, but in my view they both led to the increasing number of quality web-based task management tools.
Being a fan of David Allen’s GTD methodology, I’ve always tried to apply the method using software tools that could be better than the old pen and paper.
Just a few years back, finding a task management software was a quite hard task itself, especially on a Mac.
Today, I think that choosing the “right one” for you has become a stressful experience because there are too many!
When I started using these task management tools I basically didn’t have much choice. The first ones I’ve used where:
- OmniFocus
- Things
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Written on June 23rd, 2011 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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Since efficiency and productivity is almost always measured in time, optimizing our time is one of the most challenging adventures of our days.
I’ve been using several different project management applications in the last few years, but I must say that their learning curve and usability benefits is not always worth the price.
On the other hand I’ve discovered several low cost (or free) apps the are excellent companions for your time management needs.
Being a Mac guy, I’ve used Omnifocus and Things for a while. They are great tools but lack cloud computing and collaboration features. That’s why I went back to the nice and clean Remember The Milk web app, with excellent versions for mobile devices. Using it to its full potentials, with an intelligent tags and lists organization, I believe it is a great GTD and productivity enhancer.
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Written on April 26th, 2011 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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As standards of living improve, people are placing an increasing emphasis on leisure, dynamically seeking ways to relax and eliminate stress. This is why travel has become a popular leisure activity. Numerous factors influence the destination choice, including advertising campaigns, travel agency promotions, airline ticket discounting, movies or TV programs, personal preferences and word of mouth.
In particular, the Internet has dramatically changed the competitive dynamics of the lodging industry, since a continuously growing number of tourists use this technology to collect useful information for their travels. Marketers, who have long sought to harness and manage interactions such as these to their own advantage, have recently begun to consider and devise strategies to manage online interpersonal influence.
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Written on December 11th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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I used to post tweets and blog posts as soon as they were ready, as soon as I had something to share.
But lately I’ve figured out that choosing a time and date to put your content out there could be crucial. Also, with the help of very easy to use tools for tweeting and blogging, I believe choosing a correct time has become really easy.
Some studies show that posts on Facebook are more often shared between 9.00 AM and 10.00 AM. Also, it seems like there are more chances of your message to be re-tweeted in the early afternoon, from 1.00 PM to 3.00 PM.
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Written on November 9th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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In our always-on social media world I think we are assisting to a new phenomenon: the “social loneliness“.
Social media has changed the way we interact with our friends, colleagues, loved ones. Mobile devices and their wireless and cheap connections have changed the way we use social networks. We are using mobile devices to update our status on facebook, twitter, tell friends where we are having dinner using foursqaure, and upload pictures of what we are looking at.
Wonderful! I would say.
But the strange thing I would like to address here is that not all of us are as social as they might appear on social media!
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Written on October 7th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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I came a cross a few interesting new web apps that maybe represent the social answer to the economic crisis we are living today.The first one is called Fiverr where the slogan is “The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5″. And that’s exactly what it is. A kind of social network where people offer the most strange performances and services for just 5$!
Even if the bigger number of proposals are technical ones (such as debugging web sites, installing wordpress themes, etc.), you can also find pretty strange announcements such as: “I will call your girl and tell her that you are gay for $5″, or “I will send you
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Written on September 22nd, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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Whan I was young and romantic, I loved my to-do lists made with my best pen and written on my elegant agenda. They were fascinating and useful but I do remember I had some productivity issues. First of all I wished all not completed tasks could magically shift to the next day..
Probably less romantic or fascinating, electronic to-do lists definitely changed the productivity levels of my working day.
Which tool you use really does not make much difference. But the way you use it sure does.
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Written on August 24th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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Probably I’m obsessed by this word: synchronization.
But if I’m not the only one who tries to keep all calendars, emails, to-do lists, files, contacts in sync, then I would like to share some of my considerations and some of my experience with a pretty good cocktail of tools I regularly use. Truly enough, I would love to hear similar thoughts and experiences from anyone.
First of all let me say that I’m a great fan of David Allen‘s GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology and that I love to be organized, efficient and productive. Second, I must admit that I’m also fascinated by new technologies and not very keen anymore to use paper and pen.. Oh, and I’m a Mac man.
What I would like to share are some experiences, workarounds and ideas I came up in the last years in order to try to keep my life (and work tools) in sync.
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Written on August 19th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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For those of you who think can keep all your activities and To-Do list in your mind, for those who still rely on paper and pencil, for everyone who does not believe that technology can improve your productivity… stop reading this article. For all the rest I hope this helps!
Given as requirement that I’m a Mac user and GTD (Getting Things Done, by David Allen) passionate, I will try to illustrate several options I have personally tested for To-Do lists and task management.
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Written on July 23rd, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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I’m definitively an iPhone fan. I bought it the first day it was delivered to stores.
I also must admit it has increased my productivity and pleasure in using such a device.
BUT, although it has been around now for several years, the operating system is now in its release 4.0.1…. yet I still believe there is one huge deficiency: VOIP. While most of other smartphones provide this feature in someway, the iPhone seems to ignore the VOIP industry.
Many VOIP app developers are struggling in trying to upload their applications on the Apple store, but I believe everyone is still far from what a true VOIP phone should look like.
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