It has been a while.  I have been a bit busy with our company Tellagence.  Because life is a bit crazy I'm always looking for ways to be more efficient.  I have always looked at task management systems and I have currently settled on Asana.  It is a good system that is improving consistently but one area that is lacking is the speed that I can enter a task on my phone.  They have decided to build the application using a mobile site which requires it to reload every time.  Not good for the need. 

My memory sucks.  If you have to wait more than a second to enter a task it becomes an issue.  I know that sounds crazy but when you think of a task you need to get it out of your head and captured.  Many times you are doing something that you don't want it to distract you from for more than a second or two - like talking with someone.  

One of the blogs I read is by Brad Feld.  He recently blogged about a task took he uses - Captio.  It is a great little app which allows you to email yourself a task very quickly.  Because I apply GTD as my methodology for organization another email does not do me much good.  I don't use my email inbox as a task list (bad idea).  

Asana allows you to email tasks but the email that comes from Capito is a standard email address so I had some concerns about someone else doing the same thing.  Then I might get other people's tasks and vice versa.  So I needed to auto forward any email to my gmail account from Capito to Asana.  I couldn't figure it out very easily so I used my favorite tool on the internet - IFTTT.  

I created a task that hooked to my gmail and forwarded any email from Capito to Asana.  Now I have a quick task hack.  You can use my recipe here.  

Apple has always been great at making the shopping experience something you desire at most other stores.  Most of the store employees can check you out with their iPhone but today there was a new twist.  

If you walk in with your iPhone, have on wireless and location services you can use the Apple Store app to check yourself out for any item that does not require someone to get it out of the back.  It was cool and easy.  You open the app, put the camera over the bar code (just like a QR code reader), enter your apple password and you are done.  It works just like if you bought an app or a song.  

The guy that was helping me said that they are suggesting it to all users.  If you walk in and need a cord or headphones or anything on the shelves you can scan it yourself and walk out.  No help required.  If you get stopped at the door you show your receipt on your phone - otherwise it is on the honor system.  

I found it amazing.  You can get the app here if you don't have it.  Nice job Apple.

Here are links to some of the sites I mention.

Omnifocus, Things, Toodledo, Action Method, Strides, Basecamp, Asana and Do.com

It has been an interesting 7 days.  We moved in a very positive direction that has seemed to have unlocked a bunch of things we needed to figure out.  Now the only issue is that we have to go back and redo some work on assumptions we had made around the business.  Enjoy and let us know what you think.

You can also check out a bunch of pictures from the event thanks to @mayakamoshita over at Tripwire. (She is awesome!)

Thanks to the amazing @cindyv, @andergard and @apebit for being great people to work with so we could pull off this amazing event.

Thanks to everyone for your interest and support.

Recently, I was in the market for new set of in ear headphones.  I was looking for something that had amazing sound and, most importantly, had a great fit in my ears without falling out.  So many people use the white Apple headphones.  As much as I would like to just use the pair that come with my iPhone or iPad, I just can't.  I guess I just don't' have normal ears because those fall out of my ears constantly.  When I do get them to stick, they hurt.

The first pair I tried was the Beats tour headphones.  I wanted to like them.  They do a great job at marketing and I tried really, really hard to like them but the fit was miserable.  Even if the fit was good, I was not impressed at all with the sound.  At a price tag of $180, they should fit and sound great.  Those got returned after a week.

Every day for the last 4 years, I have worn my Bose Quite Comfort Noise Canceling Headphones.  They are the best money I have ever spent on technology (even over my iPhone).  

Bose MIE2i Headphones

Bose sells an in ear headphone, the MIE2i Mobile Headset, which I had looked at before.  I looked at them because of my experience with the QC headphones.  My issue was I didn't think they looked that cool.  I decided to try them and have never looked back.

These are the most comfortable headphones I have ever worn.  They have the exceptional sound that anyone that has experienced the Bose brand has come to expect.  They stay in my ear when I workout and you can't even tell they are there.  They come with a mic for phone calls.  This is the headset I take all my calls on.  I have never had any issues.

If you are in the market for an in ear set of headphones, look no further.  This is an amazing product that lives up to my expectations of the Bose brand.