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  I wrote the first post about OmniFocus for the iPad just a few days after the app had been released. With the iOS 4.2 (hopefully) just a few days ahead and OmniFocus updated to 1.2 recently, I decided to sum up some more thoughts on running my GTD system on the iPad. This is [...]

  OmniFocus for iPad was announced shortly after the iPad itself and hardcore GTDers have been (impatiently) waiting for their essential productivity app – waiting (and suffering for many of us) was over on Friday, July 30, when OmniGroup published on the AppStore their third iPad app. OmniFocus for iPad is now available for $39,99 [...]

  Evernote is a great second brain. Perfect synchronization features and mobile access keep your data with you. Well, all the data you somehow entered into Evernote. One of the reasons I use Evernote is the ability to store and index PDF files. There is a lot of stuff I have to keep (such as [...]

  Support for multiple currencies is one of the main advantages of fully featured personal finance software in comparison with various web services. iBank offers quite extensive support for more than one currency, creating however some challenges for the users. How to set up iBank for international multi-currency use and how to overcome some of [...]

  Beginning of a new year is time for resolutions. We balance the past year and make our plans for the next 12 months. Is this “traditional approach” compatible with evolved self management methodologies and GTD? Yes, because such a review is clearly needed. No, because one year frequency is not enough. We will show [...]

  One of my favorite paper based productivity tools got updated for 2010 and is ready for the new year. Offering much more than the famous Emergent task timer, it is worth looking for everybody who likes the “freedom of doodling” on a sheet of paper. Believe it or not, sometimes the computers are not [...]

  Following the review of iBank 3 for Mac OS X, we bring you some useful tips for iBank. Learn how to arrange the accounts pane better, automate repeating transactions to save time, understand the trasfers and discover the iBank widgets.

  Snow Leopard, released as Mac OS X 10.6 in August 2009 and currently available as 10.6.2, refined the 10.5 Leopard and introduced several technological foundations for future development of MAC OS X and Mac applications. The new features for the users are not limited to the “big ones”, such as Exchange support – there [...]

  Getting things done stands  among others for good order in all important areas of your responsibility. Personal finance is one of those universal areas of responsibility, found in our 20 000 feet lists. As we offload our projects and tasks to our GTD systems in order to focus the mental energy to the productive [...]

  The themes for my favorite GTD application OmniFocus started to spread over the internet recently. How to use them? This is a step-by-step guide.