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The little score icon in the top menu bar. While I only review the app on a monthly basis or less, Timing has one extremely useful feature.
Timing tracks everything you do on your computer and assigns a productivity score to the time you’ve spent. I schedule Freedom to block everything in my prestige writing time from 6 am to 8 am. To avoid this, I use Freedom.to to block YouTube and other interruption sites when I’m writing. Many times, my fingers will trick my brain and open up YouTube or some news site. Mindnode also works well as a brainstorming or inspiration board tool, such as this one I made on 3 Zones for the Home Office. Only for the most demanding project, I will use Excel and other tools for keeping track. Many times, I will use Mindnode for casually sketching out project plans, and that will be the only project planning that I do. I’m a big follower of David Allans and his insight that “we need more casual planning”. I use mindnode and a versatile thinking and planning tool. Fantastical also works great on Apple Watch, as I have described here. It also has a lot more customisability than Apple Calendar.
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It’s filled with small improvements like that for professional users. For example, it takes one click to set event alerts instead of two clicks in Apple Calendar. The interface is built for more heavy use.
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(The above image is a sample calendar, not my own) Fantastical is basically a pro version of Apple Calendar. For articles, I sometimes also run them through Grammarly too for extra safe grammar check. Ulysses also has built-in grammar check and it works fine. An alternative app is Scrivener, but Scrivener lacks the clean, modern design of Ulysses. But for writing first drafts and building arguments, the app is unmatched. The only problem is no collaboration features on documents, so if you are writing with other scientists, you need to move your manuscript to Word at some point. There’s even a workaround for using Endnote references. It’s mainly used by authors and writers I think, but it fits scientific writing perfectly too - especially the qualitative analysis that I do. Ulysses is a space for all writing in one place and features distraction-free experience with text and text only. I even have a folder with jokes - there’s a single sad joke in there that’s too awful to share here. Over time, Ulysses has become my hub for EVERYTHING writing related: Idea notes, personal notes, course notes, book notes, manuscripts, quotes, planning documents, journaling etc. If OmniFocus is my extended brain, then Ulysses is the place where my actual brain does most of the thinking. As you can tell, I'm also a big fan of emojis for a quicker overview of projects and tags. The idea is to make it effortless to always get ideas off my mind.
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I’ve set up quick capture shortcuts on my Mac and iPhone, as well voice capture on my Apple Watch. My absolute favourite thing about OmniFocus is the capture shortcut.
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GTD have a PDF guide specifically for OmniFocus too, which helps. It does take a lot of time to set up the app just right though - mostly because you (in my opinion) have to understand the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology, according to which all my lists and tags are organised. It really is my extended brain when it comes to planning and executing tasks - and everything else actually. I even have an agenda list for stuff to talk with my wife about. If something is not in OmniFocus, it might as well not exist for me.
I'm not sure I would have been able to cope effectively with the intensive demands of a PhD project without OmniFocus's ability to sort out my thoughts and deliver the right information to me at the right time. OmniFocus is the brain of my research system. My conspicuous desktop wallpaper is a colourised photo of an African shaman. Also, I am not affiliated with any of these apps. I will have to do another blogpost on specialised apps for analysing qualitative data. My apps here are not specific to any data analysis type, but general purpose apps for planning, writing, etc. The apps below help me trick my brain into doing the work with sleak design, helpful emojis and interruption blocks. Perhaps that’s why these are mostly Apple-only apps with a minimalist design.
For me, a great design is just as important as functionality of applications. In social science/humanities we may not require super-computers, but all knowledge work demands a way to organize knowledge in a useful and pleasing way.
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