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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Connect with Brittany:

• Devise & Conquer
• Brittany Smith - Productivity and ADHD Coach - Devise & Conquer Productivity Coaching | LinkedIn
• Devise & Conquer (@Devise_Conquer) / Twitter
• Devise & Conquer: Productivity, Technology, ADHD - YouTube

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

Honorable Mentions:

• Listen to Brittany as a guest on ADHD Essentials with Brendan Mahan! 
• Asana
• What is GTD - Getting Things Done®
• Did you know: There are built in tasks if you use Google Assistant. (The same principle applies to the Echo!) 
• Obsidian 
• Evernote 
• SimpleMind 

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• adhdessentials.com with Brendan Mahan
• hackingyouradhd.com with Will Curb
• adhddiversified.ca with MJ Siemens
• adhdfriendlylifestyle.com with Moira Maybin
• coming soon - Wait, What Was the Question? with Will Curb and Coach Roxie Martin! Reach out to Will and Roxie at [e-mail]