​​TLDC: The Productivity Playlist: Nick Floro
​​January 28, 2020
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​Productivity Tools + Techniques we use: 

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​- Planning with a Kanban board (we use Asana)

  • ​​Setup a series of columns tasks and move as your work thru your production. Tag with date, resource, and add notes + status updates. 
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  • ​​Reminders
  • ​​Hit list
  • ​​3rd party expansion tool to create Gantt Charts: InstaGantt
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  • ​​Other tools:
  • ​​Pen / Paper / Notebook
  • ​​Confluence
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​​🤠​ Collaborative Notes with Paper by Dropbox

  • ​​notes
  • ​​Reviews
  • ​​Example of marking up a screen grab via iPad:
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​​✏️​ Prototyping (Adobe XD)

  • ​​quick, easy, share, get feedback 
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​​🙄​ Reviews (we use Zoom)

  • ​​Record meetings, now auto transcribes audio to text 
  • ​​Annotation - great UI for quickly adding notes
  • ​​I love using the iPad to share feedback during meetings. 
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  • ​​3rd Party tool: Otter.ai - allows you to take any audio / recording and transcribe it. 30min free per month, pay per month for more content. 
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​​📮​ Sharing Notes and links after calls

  • ​​Use Paper by Dropbox to share, collaborate and gather feedback.
  • ​​Customizing urls
  • ​​tool chrome bl.ink
  • ​​url setup
  • ​​OneNote by Microsoft works across all devices and syncs via cloud. 
  • ​​iOS - my favorite 2 note taking apps: Allows you to capture photos, audio, text, writing, sketches and share. 
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​​📆​ Scheduling Meetings with Calendly

  • ​​Thanks Bianca for sharing. 
  • ​​Joe Ganci highly recommends the Google Assistant to add times. 
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​​🌈​ Creating a Hub with Slack 

  • ​​chat, talk, quick screen shares
  • ​​google hangouts - free 3rd party tool. 
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​​🙀​ Virtual Teams : Gathering Updates with StandUply

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​​🛠️​ Other Tools:

  • ​​Feedly - great to keep up with information and sharing. 
  • ​​Twitter - Checkout the two great learning chats:
  • ​​#LrnChat Thursdays 8.30-9.30pm est
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  • ​​Monitors - add 1+ - makes. you more productive
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  • ​​Mac
  • ​​iOS 13 - HIGHLY Recommend for multi-tasking and notes
  • ​​screenshots - if your iPad is near your Mac it will auto grab the screen grab and allow you to use the pencil to mark up, highlight and then when you close saves back to your desktop. 
  • ​​Paste - allows you to paste (share clipboard) across several devices
  • ​​Moom - auto sets your windows, apps, screens based on your monitors
  • ​​Hijack audio - allows you to record any audio channel and mix together
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​​elgato streamdeck xl - 3 sizes based on needs. Allows you to assign keyboard, or multiple actions to buttons and custom design. Sits next to laptop or keyboard. 
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​​😘​ 1/28/20 Web Meeting - Quick example of writing notes

  • ​​Agenda
  • ​​review tools
  • ​​show new example
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    Tue, Jan 28, 2020
    ​Nick add the GANNT Chart tool / plugin for Asana ​@Nick F​
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