Productivity and Goals
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.
Support your weekly planning with a quick evening review
To make weekly planning successful, tools to use include the daily and evening reviews. A daily evening review can enhance productivity in several ways.
Break your goals down into bite-sized pieces with weekly planning
Weekly goal planning is a valuable practice for setting and achieving your objectives efficiently. But ranking projects, to-dos, and personal and health goals is not as simple as it sounds. Being on top of your schedule will help you focus on the most valuable and high-return areas.
Are your annual goals set? You’re all done then, right? Not if you want success!
Do you need help to stay on track, focusing your efforts to achieve short and long-term goals? Pick a method that allows you to do a daily goal review. Here's some methods.
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.
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.