I do all my work for LifeTools on an Apple MacBookPro 17-inch laptop (writes Chris Payne, owner of LifeTools).
Software:
Quark Xpress 6.5 for brochure design
Dreamweaver for web design
Microsoft Excel for all mailing plans, budgets, advert and mailing analysis, etc.
iMovie HD for editing movies of my sons Toby and Felix.
Comic Life
DEVONthink Pro for storing my ideas
DEVONagent
MissingSync for Palm OS |
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OmniFocus for organising my projects for the next few years (previously
kinklessGTD)iWeb for creating my blog and photo albums Sound Studio 3 for editing interviews I record Delicious Library for storing my business-related books textSOAP 3 for cleaning up emailed text for use in newsletters etc |
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...and I use an Olympus WS-300M Digital Voice Recorder for dictating ideas as I drive or walk around.
For names and addresses:
A Palm Tungsten T3, which stores around 850 names and addresses.
I've also
been using AllTime
from iambic software on
my Palm. It's a wonderful time
tracker, so I can see what I'm
doing during each business day.
For example,
if I'm about to start a meeting
with a team member, I start
up AllTime, select New: Time,
enter 'M' in the Client field,
which brings up Marketing, E in the Project field brings up Effort-Free seminar, M
in the Activity field brings
up Meeting on-site, and I start
the timer -- and switch off.
I can then call up the calculator or my diary during the meeting and the timer keeps going. At the end of the meeting I switch off the timer. This creates a log for that event.
My day is made up of between 8 and 12 such events each day. I can then export, say, a week of these events to my Mac via the built-in Memo Pad, and once in the Mac the file can be imported into Microsoft Excel.
AllTime costs $39.95 (about £27), and I think it's worth every penny!
I also use
Idea
Fisher on the Mac for generating
ideas. I first bought it in
1993 as I was setting up LifeTools,
and I used it to brainstorm
what the business would do and
how I would market it.
I recently upgraded to ThoughtOffice which is the OS X version.
My 30-gig Apple
iPod houses about 6,000 songs
from my CD collection, which
is now in the garage! I plug
it into a portable inMotion 3 speaker unit at home, which I have 2 sets of rechargeable batteries for, so I can sit the
iPod on top, then take it round
the house with me, playing music
as I go. Now I can bath the
boys while playing music, stack
the discwasher, and so on!!
So the iPod has changed the
way I listen to my music.
I type
a diary every night into an Alphasmart
Dana keyboard. This low-cost
device is very light and versatile
and does its job brilliantly.
It¹s basically a Palm with
a full-size keyboard, so the
battery lasts for maybe a month
before it needs charging.
I have used it on trains and
planes for notetaking. Later
I connect it to my laptop using
a simple USB cable, press the
Dana's Send button, and
all the text types itself into
Word, or straight into Quark
Xpress, as though I was typing
it there and then at breakneck
speed.
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I have also
used a Palm Folding Keyboard
with my Palm. It really is excellent
and both fit easily into my
jacket pockets.
If you want to know more, or
are interested in working for
us at LifeTools, contact Chris
via: kate @ lifetools.com |
