Apple Launches 'Get Productive' Promotion for iOS and Mac With Discounted Productivity Apps

[Jessica Lares]

Teehee. Yeah, It's surprizing to me how many of these I'd already bought. The kind folks in the online Apple communities who recommend and review apps really do seem to be a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff. I'm going to pick up Dropzone this evening. For 2 bucks, not a bad deal at all.

Dropzone came in one of my MacHeist bundles. That was one of those things I ended up not using very much. It was too weird. I don't understand why dragging things to your menubar became a thing. I don't care for CloudApp's menulet for that reason too. I really want someone to come up with an alternative right-click menu that lets us keep services at the top and just have a few bits of the native stuff.

The apps you can get for OS X is one of the best things of owning a Mac.

 

[techpr]

Anti-productivity. You guys want productivity? Stop investigating and buying / trying apps and just get back to work.

So you are the one that still work with 20 century tools 🙂

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

pretty excited to have my small indie app, Desk App, represented! pretty honored and humbled, that's for sure!

Congratulations! 🙂

 

[AppleInLVX]

Dropzone came in one of my MacHeist bundles. That was one of those things I ended up not using very much. It was too weird. I don't understand why dragging things to your menubar became a thing.

I totally understand that. I was thinking I'd have no use for such a thing at all too. I went and did some research on use cases, and it seem that i would use it. It's a good way to get misc files to where they need to be in a hurry... save me a few clicks opening up the finder and locating the folder I want and then stuffing the file in there. For two dollars, that's worth it, even if I only use it periodically.

And if I don't wind up using it, well... it's two dollars. That's the price for curiosity I guess.

 

[Jessica Lares]

And if I don't wind up using it, well... it's two dollars. That's the price for curiosity I guess.

Exactly. I've wasted more money on things that cost more than that.

 

[RedTomato]

Since we're talking productivity, I follow GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology by David Allen religiously and I was searching for the apps to help me implement it, money is not an issue as long as the app is a one time payment (ex. not Evernote) and doesn't cost more than 100$ (ex. OmniPlan), now it's like this:

2. Project Planning app that is not designed for a multi billion corporation CEO, I want a simple timeline where I can see my tasks and projects presented chronologically.

My team has moved to BaseCamp, and it seems nice. Very easy to start using and accessible to new people. Has some good iOS apps. I'm tempted to start using it for personal project planning.

Not a fan of GTD. Tried it out, ended up with extremely long task lists and I couldn't get anything done. Have developed my own system, consisting of two to do lists:

- Priority, which only has 3 -4 things on it MAX, and theoretically can be completed in a single day (I rarely actually complete all of it in a single day, but the list should be do-able in one day)

- Everything else - I dump everything else in this, and almost never look at it or think about it. Frees me up to focus on the priority tasks.

If the priority list is looking empty, then I'll go back to everything else and select one or two tasks to move to priority. In actual fact, that rarely happens, and I find that through doing the priority tasks, I've also done a lot of the non-priority tasks along the way. Or they have become irrelevant and can be deleted. Either way, I prune this list every now and then.

 

[farewelwilliams]

Or you could just use Omnifocus 2.

or i could not pay $40