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409 | How to Choose Your Productivity Apps with Brittany Smith

409 | How to Choose Your Productivity Apps with Brittany Smith


Have you tried using all sorts of to-do and task-management apps but haven’t found ‘the one’ yet?

In this episode, Eric is joined by Brittany Smith, a productivity, ADHD, and technology coach and recently published her first course, “From Aggravated to Navigated: Choosing a task-management system with ADHD”. She has a Masters of Science degree in Cognitive Neuroscience lab at the University of Oregon. Brittany uses geeky pop-culture and cognitive science to help her clients and ADHD Guild members get more done with less stress. 

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In this Episode:

  • How do you do things so that you will be successful no matter which tool you choose? 
  • With task-management apps, how do we make these things suck less? How do we choose what task-management app to use? 
  • How do we make task-management apps a “less bad” fit for our brains so we make sure we know what we need to do?
  • Mentioned: Task Management Software Built For Pros – OmniFocus – The Omni Group (Mac/iOS only) 
  • What’s your personal style? 
  • What should we be looking at if we are stuck in task-management-app “hopping”? 
  • What is a great app for automating?
  • Mentioned: Todoist 
  • Mentioned: Google Keep 
  • Mentioned: TaskPaper (Mac/iOS only)
  • Mentioned: Drafts (Mac/iOS only) 
  • Mentioned: Notion 
  • Mentioned: Trello 
  • Mentioned: Miro
  • Mentioned: MindNode

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