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Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC
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Posted by Andy Brice
Oct 21, 2015 at 08:06 AM
“Are productivity apps more hype than help?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34506590
Posted by Paulo Diniz
Oct 29, 2015 at 01:26 AM
Yes lets all go back to pen and paper
Posted by yosemite
Oct 29, 2015 at 03:22 AM
A lot of people use paper and pen for tasks, notes, even outlining!
On-line forums self-select for the electronically inclined and CRIMPers like us.
A simple paper list is what I recommend to people who ask me, if they say they’ve tried a bunch of todo apps…
With a simple paper list comes focus.
“whatever works”
Posted by Andy Brice
Oct 29, 2015 at 07:54 AM
I prefer pen and paper for some things.
“Horses for courses”
Posted by Hugh
Oct 29, 2015 at 10:28 AM
yosemite wrote:
A lot of people use paper and pen for tasks, notes, even outlining!
>
>On-line forums self-select for the electronically inclined and CRIMPers
>like us.
>
>A simple paper list is what I recommend to people who ask me, if they
>say they’ve tried a bunch of todo apps…
>
>With a simple paper list comes focus.
>
>“whatever works”
Indeed. As I’ve mentioned here before, recent academic research (reported, as far as I can remember, in the New York Times and elsewhere) suggests that handwriting engages “deeper” and more complex areas of the brain than typing. (That’s not to say that, for me, outliners and list-making applications aren’t often very useful. They are. But even when using those, I frequently write out my rough thoughts on paper first.)