Jan 19, 2012

Most productivity software falls either in the to-do list or timer category, and often they are tied to a particular methodology such as Getting Things Done (GTD) or the Pomodoro Technique. This is of course very useful when either you are knowledgeable about the methodology and, most importantly, when the methodology fits precisely into your workflow. Another...

Saw this one over at FriendFeed Watch: the first desktop client for FriendFeed was released!  I was looking forward to this, as FriendFeed is such a nice and well implemented idea that justs begs to become a permanent resident of my system tray, rather than having to keep a browser tab permanently open to check on it.  The client is called bTittleTattle (yea,...

I had two very different experiences in the last few weeks which showed how valuable web conferences can be when working with distributed teams in projects, or for that matter for any technical issue that you need to work on over a distance. The good experience: I had an issue with a portfolio management tool that we are deploying, and after setting up a web...

Now that I’ve written about Comapping’s new features, I thought I’d finish the mind mapping review series with a round-up of all the posts I’ve written on the subject. So here they are, in reverse chronological order: New Features at Comapping Reviewed ConceptDraw MindMap 5 Professional: Another Mind Mapping Tool Reviewed Mind...

Comapping has released some new features to their excellent online mind-mapping tool, and they asked me to take a look and write a few words about it. Took me a while to do it (seems like everything does lately), but finally I managed to give this the attention it needed to come up with a decent (I hope!) review. Comapping is one of the better online mind...

Apparently someone has been reading my posts, because in the last weeks I received invitations to test out three different tools in areas related to my previous posts. The kind folks at Comapping invited me to check out the new features they have launched – I will do it, as soon as I have time! I also got asked to review a new online project management...