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Omnifocus GTD power tip – reviewing Stalled projects quickly

Omnifocus is great GTD app, but with any app that leads the way with new features, it has bugs.  If you use the Review functions in Omnifocus, you know what I mean – they’re more powerful than any other GTD app, but have idiosyncrasies that you need to learn to manage. The Stalled filter is one of those features.  It shows you projects that can’t proceed, either because the...

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How To Prioritize Your Online Presence

How To Prioritize Your Online Presence

To be effective with most things, you must spend your time where it matters most.  Traditional design practices are drawn out and allow irrelevant details to take precedence over entrepreneurial values, like speed to market. Why is Iterative Design better? Consider this simple example. Recently, I was helping my friend  set up her website. She’s an artist and illustrator, and was...

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Strategies To Avoid Catastrophic Downtime

Strategies To Avoid Catastrophic Downtime

Recently a friend’s entire business was offline for around 12 hours, and customers were without service for the first time since the business started, over 7 years ago. Even in this case, where the team is very talented and diligent, mistakes were made. This is a learning opportunity for us all. The following strategies will help you make immediate improvements with the reliability of your...

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