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The new app combs through your task list, and figures out what you need to do—and what it can do for you. The post Any.do’s Assistant Puts a Robot to Work on Your To-Do List appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading Any.do’s Assistant Puts a Robot to Work on Your To-Do List
Most people wish they were more productive. Some buckle down and leverage some rare facet of their personality to force the work out. Some of them talk with friends. Some go on vision quests. There are lots of methods for lots of types of people. Most hackers, I’ve noticed, look for a datasheet. An engineer’s reference. We want to solve the problem like we solve technical problems.
There were three books that gave me the first hints at how to look objectively at my brain and start to hack on it a little. These were The Power of Habit by …read more
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Workplace by Facebook launches, but questions remain around workplace privacy. Continue reading Facebook’s Version of Slack Is Coming for Your Workplace. What Now?
Asana — the enterprise SaaS businesses started by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and early FB employee Justin Rosenstein — has made a name for itself as a workflow and task management app that aims to help teams be more productive by making it much easier to figure out what needs to get done. But today, the company is taking the wraps off a new service that will not… Read More Continue reading Task management app Asana takes on the spreadsheet with ‘Custom Fields’
Evernote — the popular note taking and productivity startup with 200 million users — has built its reputation around an app that lets you record and track all your life’s details hold them there, for life. Today, the company is shifting gears on the question of how it will keep hold of and track that information: Evernote is migrating all of its data to Google’s… Read More Continue reading Evernote is moving all its data, machine learning tech to Google Cloud Platform
These guides from Microsoft are from 2015 but they do a very good job of exposing many elements of Windows 10 and how they impact productivity on the year old operating system. These can also be good sources for training your users if you are plannin… Continue reading Resource: Windows 10 Productivity Guides
Your new office could be in (or on) your head. Continue reading I Worked in a VR Office, and It Was Actually Awesome
Salesforce is continuing its buying spree to expand the kinds of cloud-based apps and services that it offers to its customers beyond basic CRM. The company has just announced that it is acquiring Quip, the cloud-based word processing app that wa… Continue reading Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M
All you need to get more done is the apps you almost certainly already use. The post How to Turn Google Into the Best To-Do App Ever appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading How to Turn Google Into the Best To-Do App Ever
We are in the middle of a major wave of startups building software to improve workplace productivity; now a company focused on making legacy enterprise apps more useful (and used) is picking up traction and announcing funding. Sapho — which builds what it refers to as “micro apps” for older software that does not already offer notifications whenever data is updated or… Read More Continue reading Sapho, maker of single-purpose enterprise ‘micro apps’, raises $9.5M led by Alsop Louie