So you’ve signed up for the business trial — or you’ve just made a purchase of Priority Matrix for your team. What’s next? In the video below, we’re outlining how to add team members to your accounts. You can also collaborate with your colleagues who don’t have Priority Matrix yet. Check out how: If you…
Read moreTop 10 Business Apps for iPad, iPhone, and Mac
Today’s a special day for Priority Matrix. At this very moment is the first time Priority Matrix has achieved a momentous goal of being a top 10 business app on all 3 iTunes app stores at the same time, for rank #2 on free business apps for iPad, for rank #3 top free business apps for…
Read moreOrganizing websites and your reading list on Priority Matrix
Priority Matrix can serve as your unified, synced bookmarks for web urls across your iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows, and Android. Never lose your reading list again, set due dates and priorities on your web urls for later reading (and get reminded to read them). Setting up is super easy on your desktop — simply drag…
Read moreTips for learning things quickly. Learning how to learn.
Recently I got more interested in learning. In particular, learning how to learn. I’d like to share a few tips here that I thought would be beneficial to all of us as we become life long learners. A few important things I want to point out from my self assessment. 1) Information gaps. While trying…
Read moreWriters, pig farms and pretty computers (An interview with Kristy Lin Billuni)
Not long ago, I sat down with Kristy Lin Billuni (also known as the Sexy Grammarian), to talk about productivity, her work helping writers improve their work, and how to overcome writer’s block, among other things. What follows is a summary of what we discussed. Pablo Diaz-Gutierrez: So Kristy, tell me what you do, how…
Read moreHow to be Productive on a Monday Morning
Are you more productive at the start of the week than the middle of the week? If you’re like me, I’ve found that I’m most productive during Monday mornings. The reason is simple: I know what I have to do (catch up for the weekend). After looking at what I’ve done previously, I thought I’d…
Read moreItem Inbox: Creating Priority Matrix Items Via Email
Priority Matrix supports a very useful feature we call the Item Inbox. It lets users like you send an email message to a special address in our server, in order to create a new item. This enables interesting use cases, such as: You receive an email from a colleague describing some task to be added…
Read moreAppfluence’s founding story on the San Francisco Business Times
Today, the San Francisco Business Times covered Appfluence and our founding story – a little bit on our roots and background. You can read it here, titled “Stanford PhD invents shared productivity app”. On a related note, they previously mentioned our co-founder Pablo in their article called “A higher-ed calling for disruptive startups”, where he…
Read moreA typical work day at Appfluence
Customers sometimes wonder what happens here at Appfluence on a regular workday. Thought I’d share a screenshot taken this morning of Pablo (our head of engineering) working directly on solving a a few bugs for customers. Pablo’s sporting the latest Macbook Air, an ultrabook tablet, as well as a Microsoft Surface, all of which are…
Read moreMeeting deadlines – what’s stopping you?
How good are you at meeting deadlines? In the past week, have you shifted a meeting or deadline back because something urgent has come up? A failure to meet deadlines can often be traced to urgency addiction. You may find that you push back on a longer term task because other seemingly urgent matters get in…
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