10 More Apps to Boost Your Productivity 10 weitere Apps zur Steigerung Ihrer Produktivität 10 autres applications pour booster votre productivité 생산성을 높여주는 10가지 앱 Mais 10 aplicações para aumentar a sua produtividade 另外 10 个可提高您工作效率的应用程序

- So last week, I created a video

that listed the best productivity app in my opinion

in each of 10 different categories. ||||類別

And my original cut of that video

actually had a second feature. ||||功能

In each of those categories,

I was gonna give you a secondary recommendation ||||||次要的|建議

to kind of compliment that first one, |||補充|||

but there was a problem.

With those secondary recommendations, |||次要建議

that video ended up being 26 minutes long,

which we thought was just a bit too long for an app roundup. ||||||||||||應用匯總 ||||||||||||resumen de apps

So what I'm gonna do in this video

is give you those secondary recommendations.

A lot of people were asking for them in the comments

and I think a lot of them do deserve to be mentioned. ||||||||值得|||

Now, these secondary recommendations aren't all the same.

Some of them I think are legitimately ||||||有正當理由 ||||||legítimamente

the second best overall app in that category, |||||||類別中第二

only kind of coming up short to my main recommendation. |||稍微不及||稍微不足||||

Some of them are apps that I don't think are for everyone,

but that I use personally

and I just wanna mention those as well.

And then, finally, some of the apps I'm gonna mention here

are just apps that are cool.

I think they deserve a mention.

So let's get into it, starting, of course,

with the to do list category.

Now in my original video,

I recommended an app called Todoist,

which I personally use every single day,

and the app that I wanna share with you now

is called TickTick, which is very, very similar.

In fact, for some people,

TickTick is gonna be a lot more full-featured TickTick||||||||

and is gonna be the one they wanna go for.

TickTick includes a built-in calendar view,

which Todoist does not have,

and it also builds in a Pomodoro timer and a pretty basic, |||內建|||番茄鐘||||| ||||||Pomodoro|||||

but still nicely functional, habit tracker. |||||習慣追蹤器

So if you're someone who wants to have your calendar,

your habit tracker, your Pomodoro timer,

and all of your to dos in one place, |||||待辦事項|||

then TickTick is probably gonna be the app for you.

That brings us to the calendar category

and this one's gonna be a little bit different

because my overall recommendation, Google Calendar,

is definitely gonna be the play for most people here,

but I want to give a shout out ||||||致敬|

to a relatively new app called Woven. ||||||織網

And Woven actually integrates with Google Calendar |||整合|||

and kind of lives on top of it

and it would be a nice upgrade ||||||升級

for people who find themselves going to a lot of meetings

and, hence, scheduling a lot of meetings. |因此|||||

Google Calendar itself doesn't have a whole lot of features |||||||||功能

for easily scheduling meetings

and a lot of people who use it

find themselves building these crazy long email chains, |||||||郵件鏈

going back and forth,

trying to find times and places that work for them

and the other people who they have to meet with.

Now Woven tries to essentially solve this problem

by offering a few different features.

Number one, there is a polling feature, |||||投票功能|投票功能 |||||función de encuestas|

which allows people to pick the times

and dates that work for them

and it will kind of match everyone up

and show the best possible time.

There's also the ability to have open calendar slots ||||||||espacios disponibles

on your calendar,

where people can just pencil themselves into your schedule.

And lastly, there are meeting templates, |||||plantillas de reuniones

or I guess event templates,

where if you have a lot of lunch meetings, say,

you can have a template set up

that has an already-set location,

maybe an already-set time, maybe some details.

That way you don't have to spend a bunch of time

putting information into an event.

You can just create it automatically.

All right, let's talk about project management.

Now in my last video, I kinda cheated on this category |||||||在這個類別上作弊||| |||||||hice trampa|||

and did mention two different apps

because I really like ClickUp but I had to mention Notion, ||||ClickUp||||||Notion ||||ClickUp||||||

since it is the project management app

that I use every single day.

So in this one,

you're getting kind of a third recommendation

for project management and that is going to be Trello. |||||||||Trello 來管理專案

Now Trello is the project management app |Trello|||||

that I used before I learned about Notion

and I used it for a really long time,

ever since college actually.

And with Trello,

I was able to work with my business partner, Martin, 我|||||||||

to build the last two major design iterations |||||||設計迭代 |||||||iterations |||||||iteraciones de diseño

of the College Info Geek website. ||||極客|

And that's because Trello uses

a project management philosophy

in its design called Kanban. ||||看板設計 ||||Kanban

And in Kanban, you essentially have a bunch of lists |||||||一堆列表||

that indicate different statuses of your project, |||狀態||| |||statuses||| |||estados del proyecto|||

like to do, doing, on hold, and done,

and then you create cards for every individual task

or facet of a project |方面||| |faceta|||

and you can move them between the lists

to show at a glance what their status is. ||||一目了然||||

And using this Kanban structure made it really easy for us

to keep track of every little piece of these projects,

which were huge and had, at some times,

hundreds of different pieces. |||件數不同

Now one thing that I do want to note about Trello

is that, at least for my purposes, ||||||目的

I have found that Notion essentially replaces

all of Trello's functionality, ||Trello 的| ||toda la funcionalidad|

with the exception of being able ||除了能夠|||

to easily assign people to cards, ||分配|||

assign multiple people to singular cards, ||||單一|

and then give people a centralized dashboard |||||集中的|儀表板 |||||centralizado|tablero centralizado

where they can see all the cards they are assigned to |||||||||分配到的|

across multiple different boards |||多個不同板塊

and to let them sort those cards by due date.

Notion cannot do that so if you need that functionality,

Trello's definitely a better solution than Notion.

All right, that brings us to apps that let you take notes

and in my original video, I talked about Evernote, ||||||||印象筆記

which is the app I've been using

for nearly a decade at this point because I am ancient. |||將近十年|||||||年紀大了

But the other app that I want to recommend in this video

is one that is, I would say,

nearly neck and neck with Evernote |不相上下||||

when it comes to features and overall capability

and that is Microsoft's OneNote. |||微軟的|OneNote筆記 |||de Microsoft|OneNote de Microsoft

Just like with Evernote,

you can get all kinds of information into OneNote,

audio files, pictures. |檔案|圖片

You can actually embed videos into OneNote |||嵌入影片|||

and that's something that Evernote can't do.

So hey, Evernote team, if you're watching this video,

can we get a video embed feature at some point?

That'd be great. 那就太好了||

But one thing that I personally don't like about OneNote

is the way that it organizes information. |||||組織|

You can't automatically sort different notebooks, |||||筆記本

or I guess tabs of notebooks, by date modified, |||標籤|||||修改日期

date created, alphabetically. ||按字母順序

You can only drag them and sort them manually, |||拖動|||||

so I kind of like the way that Evernote

gives me these sorting tools. |||排序工具|

That being said, OneNote is free

so if Evernote's not your cup of tea, then OneNote might be. ||印象筆記的||||||那麼|||

Okay, so let's talk for a bit about serious writing apps.

For those of you who need to do book writing

or really, really longform articles, |||長篇文章| |||artículos muy extensos|

what app should you use?

Well, when it comes to comparisons online, |||||比較|

everyone who seems to be into serious writing

or book writing loves to compare Scrivener, ||||||寫作軟體 ||||||Scrivener

which was my top recommendation in the last video,

to an app called Ulysses. ||||尤利西斯

The only problem with Ulysses,

which I happen to love, by the way,

is that it is Mac and iOS-exclusive ||||蘋果電腦||蘋果專屬|獨家專屬

and because of that, I'm not gonna feature it here.

Instead, I'm gonna feature another app that's a lot simpler

but still really, really good called Typora. ||||||Typora

Now I've talked in my note taking apps video

about apps that have a, what I call, hybrid markdown system, ||||||||混合式|混合標記系統|

where instead of writing in plain text

and then seeing a preview window of all your formatting, ||||預覽視窗|||||格式設定預覽 ||||vista previa|||||formato

instead your text gets automatically formatted as you write |||||自動格式化||| |||||formateado automáticamente|||

when using markdown syntax, ||sintaxis markdown|

such as putting two asterisks on either side of a word ||||星號|||||| ||||**asteriscos**||||||

to bold it. |加粗|

I love the fact

that I can just easily put in these formatting commands |||||||||格式指令

and have my text be formatted and allow me to see

how it's actually going to look as I write.

Now there are a lot of apps that do this,

including iA Writer and Byword, |包括 iA Writer 和 Byword|||Byword |iA|||Byword

but why I love Typora over those apps ||||我為什麼||| ||||Typora|||

is that you get this nice sidebar ||||||側邊欄

with all of your different documents. |||||文件資料

So you get a little bit of the functionality

you get in an app like Evernote,

not quite as much, but some of it,

but you also get that beautiful

hybrid markdown system as well.

All right, so we are now over to habit trackers

and like I said in my original video,

my favorite habit tracker is Habitica, |||||Habitica

but a lot of people find Habitica

to be a little bit too much.

They're not super into the video game-y elements of it

and, well, I really can't blame them.

It's not for everyone.

And, luckily, there are a lot of other apps out there

that can fit the bill if Habitica isn't your cup of tea. ||||||Habitica|||||

The one that I want to feature here is called Habitify.

Out of all the habit trackers that I've tested in the past,

and I have tested a lot, I found Habitify

to have the most pleasing visual design and UI. ||||悅目的||||

And in addition, it has some really cool features,

such as the ability to see your streaks |||||||rachas

and to see the time of day

that you typically check in for each habit.

And being able to see that data can actually be very useful

because you might be able to make tweaks

to your daily routines or the times at which you do things

based on when you find yourself doing things in the past.

Now, time tracking is another category

where I kind of, sort of cheated in my original video ||||||hice trampa||||

because I did have two different recommendations,

so those are recommendations for active time tracking

and passive time tracking.

So my next recommendation for time tracking

is going to sit squarely in that active category ||||firmly|||| ||||directamente||||

and it's kind of an odd one.

It's called Timeular and it actually has a physical device ||Timeular|||||||

that goes along with the app.

So this is something that I've been meaning to test

and I'm gonna do a full review on it at some point.

But I gave it to my friend Martin to use for a few weeks

and he said that he actually liked this better

than other time tracking solutions

and I've seen the same opinions

from other people online that I follow.

So, essentially, Timeular is an app ||Timeular|||

that pairs with this little diamond-shaped

plastic device here and on the diamond,

you can actually write different tasks on each face.

And then when you have the diamond on the desk

with a flat side on the desk,

whatever face is facing up

is going to be tracked actively in the app.

And then when you want to stop tracking,

you can either switch to something else

or you could put it in its holder |||||||soporte

and it'll just stand up like this.

This gives you an actual physical device

for tracking your time

and a lot of people seem to like that better

than having to remember to go into a specific window

or website to start and stop their time tracking.

So if that's something that seems interesting to you,

you might want to check this out.

And that brings us to email.

Like I said in the last video,

Gmail is my main recommendation for most people

but I actually do not use Gmail,

so I'm gonna tell you what the app

that I use for email these days.

It's called Front and the main benefit of this app

is that it allows you to work with a team on your emails.

In Front, you can create shared inboxes. ||||||bandejas de entrada compartidas

You can have multiple email addresses come in

to these shared inboxes.

You can actually have other sources,

like social media accounts, come in as well,

but I mainly just use email.

And then you can have team members

answer your emails for you or assign them to you.

So the way that I use Front

is essentially I have a shared email inbox

for my thomas@collegeinfogeek.com email address

and my assistant goes through

and answers most of those emails.

Now if she has a question,

there's actually a comment area at the bottom

of every email thread where she can tag me

and ask how she should process it or get some details

or ask any other questions that she might have.

And then I can respond and over time,

she gets better and better

at answering different types of emails.

And if there's something that I do have to answer,

then she can simply assign it to me

and I see it in my own personal inbox.

There're also lots of rules and integrations

and automations that you can do with Front.

But I do have to say, Front is not cheap,

I think we pay $60 a month for it,

so you really have to get to a point in your business

where it really makes sense

for team members to be answering emails,

instead of just one person.

But if that's you, Front can be really, really nice.

Speaking of teams, we are now over to team chat

and in the last video, I talked about Slack.

Today I'm going to feature an app

that is sort of the antithesis to Slack, |||||la antítesis de||

or an answer to some of the problems with Slack,

and that's an app called Twist.

And Twist was actually made by the people who make Todoist

and they developed this app

as kind of a response to Slack's realtime chat nature. ||||||de Slack|en tiempo real||

They felt, as many people do,

that the whole realtime chat nature of Slack |||en tiempo real||||Slack

makes people kind of feel like they're missing out

and it can also make really important information

get buried in threads of kind of just inane conversation. ||||||||sin sentido|

So instead of just having channels

with a realtime chat happening within each channel,

Twist has threads.

And I will say, Slack does have threads as well,

but, again, those threads get buried.

It's not very easy to find them.

With Twist, it's a lot calmer.

There are channels

but then the default mode of communication

within every channel is a thread.

And that brings us to our final category on this list,

which is cloud sync, that category of apps

that keeps your files synced and up-to-date

across all of your devices,

which I think is a really, really useful thing to have.

Now, I could recommend

one of the mainstream competitors to Google Drive,

which was my main recommendation in that previous video,

like Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, iCloud,

but I want to feature different instead.

I want to point your attention

to something called Syncthing. |||a algo llamado Syncthing

Now Syncthing is unique in this space

because it doesn't actually sync your files

to a third-party server.

It's simply an app

that runs on each of your different computers

and keeps your files synced on those computers

and those computers alone.

So if you're the kind of person

who doesn't want to be uploading your files

to a third-party company's server,

you just want to keep your stuff on your devices

and your devices alone,

then Syncthing might be something to look into.

And to boot, it is open source.

Now there is one final app that I do want to mention here,

even though it is not strictly a productivity app,

but it is an app that I've been using for years

and it has definitely helped me to expand my horizons

and to keep learning on a daily basis and that is Audible.

Audible is the best place in the world

to get your hands on audiobooks,

which I listen to almost every single day.

And Audible, again, is the best place to get them

because they have an unmatched library

with all the best sellers, tons of obscure titles,

and basically anything you're gonna want.

If you want biographies, they've got it.

If you want sci-fi titles, they've got it.

And if you want my recommendation for this month,

which is Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies

In A Silicon Valley Startup, they have that as well.

And I'm recommending this audiobook ||recomendando||

because it's just probably the audiobook

that I enjoyed listening to the most in recent months.

This is the story of Theranos, |||||Esta es la historia de Theranos.

which was a startup in Silicon Valley

that had a lot of controversy and fraud

and tons of allegations brought up against it. |||acusaciones||||

And I just found the audiobook absolutely riveting. |||||||absolutamente fascinante

And it also spawned a bunch of other ones |||generó|||||

that I wanted to listen to as well.

And the best part is that you can start listening

to this audiobook, or any other audiobook of your choosing,

by going over to audible.com/thomas

or by texting Thomas to 500-500 on your phone.

Doing that is gonna get you a free 30-day trial

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from their entire library,

you can choose whatever you want,

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Then once you're a member, you get a credit each month

for one new audiobook from that library,

plus two more Audible originals each and every month

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of workout and meditation programs.

Plus if you decide to quit at any time,

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They never go away.

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one free audiobook download of your choosing

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go over to audible.com/thomas

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