Thing 11 Productivity Tools

Another week and another blog.

This week I have been diving deep into productivity tools. What is that may you ask?

How I see it productivity tools can be things such as software (web apps) that can help us the individual with our day to day tasks. A good example of this was a productivity tool that I looked at –

“Remember the Milk”

From the list of tools given, I just had to go here and investigate further. What a catchy name. J
From my comprehensive investigations (LOL) I have since discovered that “Remember the Milk” was formed in 2004 in Sydney, but has since gone on to bigger and better things and it is now based in San Francisco…….

Gotta love Bob the Monkey the official mascot

http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2012/09/goodbye-sydney-gday-san-francisco/

Remember The Milk is trying to be the to-do list that's everywhere you are.

Signing up with this web app is completely free. I love that they have a comprehensive blog and a Tips and Tricks Tuesday posting every week which I found to be quite helpful.  The vibe that I get from the team is a bunch of people who seem to be passionate about the product and are very interactive with their clientele who use this app, which for me on a personal note is something that would seriously make me want to start using.

Remember The Milk is also available for...

Twitter

Gmail

Smart Phones

Outlook

and Google Calender

 

I love the fact that this app can be added to my Google calendar account giving me easy access to tasks, alongside the main calendar. Options to review upcoming tasks for the week, add new tasks and to edit existing ones are added features. It’s also good that you can also customise the display through Google calendars.  (Please Note: I do try and use Google Calendars) I love the fact that I can be anywhere in the world and when I log onto my Google account I can access my email and calendar.

I also found the videos for this web app to be quite simple and straightforward to use.

I see Productivity Tools as being a group of tools (hardware or software) that the individual person or companies can use to enhance themselves in areas of increased productivity, enhancing collaboration methods as well as promoting creativity and improving communication amongst staff and/or friends.

I do feel that there is a place for organisations to use one or more productivity tools to meet their working needs.

Microsoft office to me is one such “productivity tool” We use programs such as MS Word for documents, Outlook for email, Excel for graphs and tables and PowerPoint for presentations.

Now with the added additions of web apps such as –

Remember the Milk

Google calendars

Dropbox

Evernote

And many more

We can only go on to bigger and better things in regards to productivity. I think with the addition of web based apps we can be anywhere and still keep up to date with work.

Does this mean the days of sitting in the one office at the one desk from 9-5 are changing????