• Productivity,  Simplify

    Skyrocket Productivity With A Simple Program: Breevy

    Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. One of the best things you can do for personal productivity is to automate repetitive tasks. If you can do something in one keystroke that before would take you 10, you have just given yourself a 90% boost in efficiency. Text replacing programs, like Breevy, are the way to make that happen. I am often asked to review software as a part of this blog. Most software is somewhat useful, but few programs actually make me change the way I do things. One of the exceptions to this was a little program called Breevy. I reviewed it back in 2010, at Software Review: Breevy Auto Text Replacer and More!. At the time I was asked to review it, I was using ShortKeys, which was bulky and quirky. But Breevy blew me away. It is now three years later, and Breevy…

  • Productivity

    Night Owl Strategies for Successful Mornings

    There are many articles out there about how to successfully start your day. Most of them assume that you are chipper and wide awake as soon as your feet hit the floor. In other words, they assume you are a morning person. I am not a morning person. And I don't believe that you can necessarily become one. However, that doesn't mean that non-morning people can't have successful starts to their days. Here are ways that we can adapt the morning-person strategies and give us the same advantages for our days.

  • Reviews,  Simplify,  Software

    Simplify Time Calculations With Calcloc

    As a consultant, how I bill my time is important. And in order to bill properly, I have know calculate properly. Calculating time can be a pain in the neck. 60 minutes, plus all the increments therein...nothing goes nicely to base 10. In the past I have just resorted to working in quarter hour increments. But even that can get tricky, adding increments up on the calculator. That's where Calcloc steps in to fill the breach. Calcloc is a calculator that can handle native time calculations.