Wonder Tools 🧑🏼‍💻 I used this morning

Here's a peek into my toolkit

In today’s post I’m sharing some of the support tools I relied on this morning to get work done. This is a snapshot of part of my productivity toolkit. What do you use every day? Drop a comment below to share your top daily tools.

9:00am Sunsama. Map out my day

Sunsama prompts me to prioritize projects and tasks and allocate time for them on my calendar. Sometimes I prefer doing this ritual on paper before I open my laptop to avoid getting distracted by email.

🌳 Read my thoughts on how Sunsama helps you plan your day

9:10am Bloks | Prep for meetings.

Bloks provides a short background brief about the people I’m meeting with. It draws on LinkedIn to summarize their primary interests and links to my prior meeting notes. I also use Bloks to transcribe and summarize meetings.

🌞 Here’s more on how to use Bloks to record and summarize meetings.

9:20am. Lazy | Create quick notes

Lazy lets me create notes quickly out of anything I’m working on. I tap a quick keyboard shortcut to save any email, article, video or anything else into a note, with a link back to its source.

9:30am Raycast | Launch apps, add reminders and more.

Raycast is a multipurpose app I use to do any of 100 little things quickly. I invoke it with a shortcut to add reminders or calendar items, start a timer, calculate something, or grab text from my clipboard—without leaving the work I’m doing.

9:40am Camo | Fix my camera setup for meetings.

Camo improves the quality of my camera video for online meetings. It allows me to adjust the camera zoom, background and color balance for a more professional look. It can also replace a Webcam with a phone or other camera.

🧑🏼‍💻 Four reasons Camo is worth using

9:45-10:30 | Around, Zoom and Google Meet

Around is the app I prefer for private online meetings. More often I’m in Zoom or Google Meet, because those are popular platforms at my workplace.

10:30am Wakeout | Take a stretch break.

Wakeout helps me take quick exercise breaks. I don’t belong to a gym, nor do I have space in my apt or office for workout gear. So I like that Wakeout requires no equipment. It shows simple gifs I can imitate to get a quick burst of cardio.

10:40am Superhuman | Wrestle with email

Superhuman is the email app I rely on to read, reply and compose messages. Email overwhelms me some days w/ hundreds of daily messages I want to act on. So I appreciate the keyboard shortcuts & snippets that help w/ efficiency.

🌞 My original take on Superhuman and my recent interview with its CEO.

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11:00am Alfred | Copy text from my clipboard

Alfred is a helper app I use to grab text or images I’ve cut or copied — even weeks ago. It lets me paste that material into an email, a Google Doc, or anywhere else. I use this 10 times a day. I also use Text Blaze, which works across platforms.

11:10am Calm | Take a Pause

Calm and Headspace are my go-to apps for brief mindfulness breaks. I listen with my old Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-cancelling headphones to block out work sounds and to step out of the rush of New York City.

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11:20am Reminders | Keep track of tasks

Apple’s Reminders app helps me organize my To-Dos. Having tried many fancier task apps, I’ve returned to the simplest. I use it to capture anything I need to act on, often with my voice. I also use it to save lists of ideas, books, and groceries.

11:30am Day One. Journal to reflect.

Day One is a simple app for journaling on my phone or laptop. It’s a dedicated space where I can reflect on the work I’m doing, the people I’m talking with, my raw ideas, and my feelings. I don’t always do it daily, but I’m aiming to.

Read how & why I chose Day One + my X thread on 10 ways you can journal

This is a sampling of the sites and apps I use — I can’t fit them all into one post. I’ll continue sharing my toolkit in future posts.

What are 3 of the apps you use daily? Leave a comment 👇

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