Productivity

Macmillan has just announced a new tool called DynamicBooks that allows professors to edit the publisher’s massive repository of textbooks and provide them to classes in a digital format. I couldn’t dig up any info on whether the format is proprietary, open, or uses an existing eBook standard, but Macmillan says its books will be [...]

Sure, Google Reader is all the rage these days, but some folks still prefer a powerful desktop app for reading their RSS feeds. RSSOwl, a cross-platform, open source app, just got an update to version 2 that makes it competitive with the best readers out there. Its most important new features include the ability to [...]

We’ve featured productivity apps based on the Pomodoro Technique before. Jason shared Pomodoro for the Mac and I recently discovered KeepFocused for my Windows system.
If you spend a ton of time in your browser — and that browser happens to be Google Chrome, Chromium, or SRWare Iron — you might want to install the Chromodoro [...]

There has been a lot of hype around the release of the new Mac note taking app Thoughts by green&slimy software, and it has now been released. We’ve already got a ton of note taking applications to choose from — like Evernote and Notational Velocity — so what does Thoughts bring to the table to [...]

After Google purchased the collaborative text editing site EtherPad and subsequently screwed up by trying to turn off the ability to create new pads, many people have lost confidence in Google’s ability to effectively host their data on EtherPad. Google has been clear that it is their long-term plan to drop EtherPad as a service, [...]

I have a lot of friends that own both a Blackberry and an iPod Touch. When I ask them why they didn’t just get an iPhone, I often hear that they “need a real keyboard”. I have to admit that when I started with my iPhone, I wasn’t sold on the idea of a soft-keyboard [...]

If you’re already using iCal’s built-in todo management, or Outlook’s tasks on a Windows machine, and you’re just looking for an iPhone app that can synchronize with what you’re already using, you should check out 2Do.
2Do is a very well-designed and pretty to-do list manager, with the ability to create multiple lists, set priorities and [...]

Don’t you just love it when you find a way to make something good even better? Remember the Milk is a fantastic online task management application, and here are a couple of browser extensions that make it even better if you’re using Firefox or Chrome.
Both of these extensions have existed in some form in Firefox [...]

For once, a cloud app I downloaded had absolutely nothing to do with storing files on someone else’s remote server. This cloud is all about the tags, baby!
CloudPad is an open source note/task pad application that is elegantly simple to use and incredibly handy. Title a new note, set its priority, fill in all the [...]

I think it’s pretty safe to say that most people who are not using some kind of stand-alone todo list are using their email inboxes as their de facto todo list. While that clearly works for some people, it’s not kosher in the Getting Things Done universe.
If you’re a Gmail user and you’re finding yourself [...]