Productivity and Goals

Three Top Productivity Apps to Help You Focus and Get Things Done
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Three Top Productivity Apps to Help You Focus and Get Things Done

There are hundreds of productivity apps in the apps stores, and sometimes it seems like I’ve tried them all. From paper to sophistication, a productivity app can help you keep focus and make your day more productive (aka that’s why they’re called productivity apps. 😀

Here is a review of the top three apps, with the pros and cons of each.

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Managing projects with Kanban
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Managing projects with Kanban

Kanban is a project management framework that visualizes work and helps teams manage their workflow efficiently. Many individuals are more visually driven vs. word and list driven. Kanban shows at a glance the status of specific tasks within a project, identifies bottlenecks, and can help show individuals who have been assigned more tasks than they can deliver.

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Work Time Blocking and Getting Things Done to Meet Your Goals
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Work Time Blocking and Getting Things Done to Meet Your Goals

Time blocking, coupled with the “Getting Things Done” or GTD approach, may hold the secret sauce when it comes to both liberating your schedule and helping you keep the focus on your goals.

Time blocking involves scheduling almost all of the available times of your day. The schedule is based on the priorities of projects, personal and family time, blocks for unscheduled drop-ins, calls, and “putting out fires” time.

The goal is to schedule blocks of uninterrupted time to focus. Time blockers report zen like ability to focus and more significant achievements. 

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Hiding the menu bar when presenting full-screen in Canva
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Hiding the menu bar when presenting full-screen in Canva

Canva is a great presentation tool and has a great library of resources, including pictures, videos, shapes, and gifs for any profession and corporate, school, or fun presentation. I wrestled with the following issue for a long-time and a lot of web and Youtube videos before accidentally finding a solution.

Presenting Canva in full-screen in its web version will still leave a sliver of the website menu at the top of the screen. That shouldn’t be part of the presentation, but how can we make that disappear? Here’s an easy fix.

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Is 10,000 steps a day the magic number?
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Is 10,000 steps a day the magic number?

A Fitbit, the quality of your steps, and meeting goals.

These analogies fit how individuals can approach their goals. Some strive purposefully; others let life happen or re-up the same goals over and over again, wondering why their overall goals remain unfulfilled.

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