Happy New Year 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013 at 12:14PM Don't worry, I'm not going to list a whole screed of New Year's resolutions in this blog post, but it does form part of one itself.
I really must try and work smarter this year and make some room to blog more. A blog post a day would be ideal, but it's a big ask - consider this the first one!
I also want to organise myself properly. I'll be focusing more on using the tools I have available to me to create some structure around me - The three principle ones being
- Pocket for storing things for immediate consumption,
- OmniFocus for managing tasks
- Evernote as the main receptacle for all the other stuff
All three have strong cross platform support on the Mac, iOS and the web. All three have strong integration capabilities.
I'll also be looking at automation more closely with Automator, Hazel and System Services - all aimed at working smarter. You can expect to see some of the results of this organisational doubling down in the blog and undoubtedly, in some ScreenCastsOnline tutorials.
2013 is the year I will take on some help - I've said it for the past couple of years, but this year I must. I need to make it easier for me to produce more quality content and not get caught up in the post production cycle. Post production tasks are now pretty routine and easily repeatable, there's no real reason why I can't offload some of the procedural stuff onto a production assistant - should have done it last year.
I've still got a couple of days before I start back on the process of creating the weekly shows, so I'll be doing a lot more thinking and planning over the next few days, but I'm looking forward to moving onwards and upwards in 2013.
Thanks so much to all the ScreenCastsOnline members who have loyally supported me over the last year, as well as the ScreenCastsOnline Monthly magazine subscribers and purchasers of the SCOtutor applications. Things have come a long way since making the decision to make ScreenCastsOnline a full time business back in 2006, it's really impossible to have foreseen how things might have worked out, but I'm so glad and grateful that they have.
So welcome to 2013, and I hope that you and your family have a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
Reader Comments (6)
It would be possible to eliminate OmniFocus and Evernote from that equation by using Wunderlist v2. You can use Wunderlist to store websites as an archive and as a task manager, you also can archive sites in Pocket with tags.
Some food for thought.
Pocket? I thought you were an Instapapper guy. I've never really used pocket, is it better than Instapapper? Is it worth switching to?
Promises, promises! 😊
HNY to you and the fam, m'Lord.
The use of technology as an assistant/simplifier/manager/store(age).......The technology must work for us, not us for the technology, which seems to be the case these days.
The simple act of being paperless, requires planning and discipline.
Take it (tech) by the throat. Give it a good shake and be determined that it works for you, not against you.
Rationalise, minimise and insist that it works across all devices, for the essentials.
May we (humans) be successful in "technology taming"
So you're back to OmniFocus as opposed to Things, eh? Why the switch?
The new OmniFocus Drop email had a lot to do with it, plus reviewing on the iPad.