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1 | Your Name | Tool | Type (Productivity, Calendar) | Example of Work Application? | Favorite Features? | Things to watch for? Features you don't care for? | Most Overhyped/ Most Useless of 2016 | ||||
2 | David Kelly | ToodleDo | To Do | Keeps track of al my stuff | mobile is imperative | ||||||
3 | Jane Bozarth | IFTTT | Connects diff social tools | Every link I post on Fbook biz page is also saved to an Evernote notebook. Easy to find it again. | So many different recipes | Sometimes the recipes break and I don't realize it for awhile. | Everybody bored with Slack yet? | ||||
4 | Tracy Parish | News360 | News Aggregate | Feeds many different news sources and website feeds into one app | Able to easily save articles and post out to other social media sites. | Interface was challenging at first to get used how to see latest feeds | Snapchat | ||||
5 | Zsolt Olah | Xtensio | Learner Persona | Building a learner persona for sction mapping | Multi-user, pre-built questions and template, save as PDF | ||||||
6 | Matt Pierce @piercemr | Snagit | Screencapture/Productivity | Capture, edit images, easy sharing | Panoramic capture for long pages or captures, but I love the easy of resizing and easy fast manipulation of images | Full disclaimer: I work for the company that makes it, but I use it every day. EVERY DAY. | |||||
7 | @urbie | Plotagon | Animation | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxvtP9eGqxU | Can use device-generated audio or lip-synced recorded voice. Also supports closed captioning | ||||||
8 | Ryan Tracey | OneNote | Productivity | To do list; informal work processes; checklists | Cross-platform accessibility | Anything beyond text. I just don't use it that way. | |||||
9 | Zsolt Olah | MindMup | Action Mapping/Mind Mapping | Action Mapping | Simple. Branch building. | ||||||
10 | Ryan Tracey | Social | Keep a finger on the pulse of what's going on in my profession. | Favouriting; What you may have missed. | Favourites often don't disappear after unfavouriting. | ||||||
11 | Katie Stroud | Ulysses | writing | Tracking and organizing writing projects | Setting goals and sharing progess with community | Formatting is done with Markup, which is great for web pages but has to be stripped for pasting into word or elsewhere. | |||||
12 | Jeff Goldman | Sigil | develop iBooks | iBooks, manuals | include videos audio, surveys | Can't create tables | |||||
13 | Ryan Tracey | Zappar | Augmented Reality | In-context user guides / job aids | Audience don't need an account or follow a channel. | Needs to accomodate movies with transparent backgrounds. | |||||
14 | Jane Bozarth | Training support | Building virtual tours, book lists, sub for typical handout | Shared boards, commenting, easy bookmarking | Can't rearrange pins. | ||||||
15 | Kim Maston | Reddit is Fun | Reddit reader | Tapping into news, discussions or TILs | Better than the official reddit reader | na | as above, LinkedIn. Horrible app | ||||
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17 | Zsolt Olah | Construct 2 | Game Engine | Free version allows you to experience building playful interactions or simply brainstorm/playtest ideas. | Physics, platform games, infinite jumper, families | ||||||
18 | Matt Pierce @piercemr | Wordpress | Communication tool | Building information channels, sharing, long form communication | Ease of customization, can publish just about anything | Rabbit hole of options, and better if you know some code, but not a requirement | |||||
19 | Jane Bozarth | World Time Buddy | Scheduler/world clock | Setting up virtual meeting in multiple time zones | No more confusion over time zones... | ||||||
20 | @urbie | Paper by @fiftythree | Sketching app | Back of the napkin ideation aid.. https://www.instagram.com/p/BN2UIIEB0Bj/?taken-by=wiredless | Very simple tools. Support for Apple Pencil is ultimate | ||||||
21 | @urbie | DJI Mavic Pro drone | Flying camera | Their website.. http://www.dji.com/mavic | Tripod and anti-collision modes | ||||||
22 | @susangenden | Yammer, Jive | Connections, learning | Find expertise on the job, just-in-time | Jive enables collaboration within app | Overwhelming potentially. Must set notifications right. | |||||
23 | @urbie | Minecraft | Virtual world [and coding enviroment] | https://education.minecraft.net/ | You can code anything | ||||||
24 | Kim Maston | Netflix | This is not productive | Some time out after a day of hard brain use | All eps available at once | All eps available at once | |||||
25 | @susangenden | IM tools (in Office that's Skype or Lync, depends on version) | communication tool | Communication with teams quickly | Adding multiple users easily, fast | ||||||
26 | Kevin Thorn | Concepts | Conceptualize ideas, design and plan | Visualize a storyboard for elearning projects | Objects. Ability to save a custom design, icon or element as an object for future use. And, make your own iMessage stickers! | Tools take time to get used to as well as gestures to manipulate toolsets. Also, isolated to iOS | Facebook Live. Overhyped. | ||||
27 | Kevin Thorn | Toggl | Time management | Set up projects/tasks and turn on timer per each. | Ability to assign different tasks to rates and export a report of all time against a project | No invoicing yet. Only time management app, but works well and may see an invoicing feature in the future. So far, I like all features. | |||||
28 | Kevin Thorn | Edgar | Social Media organizer, publisher, and editorial calendar | Set categories for tweets, posts, etc. to multiple social media accounts and schedule them as one-time or recurring | Categories: Group tweets/posts under 'promotional', 'workshops', 'blog', 'tips' or as many as you want | It's pricey at $49/mo. Useful if you have a lot of various types of information that goes to various accounts. | |||||
29 | Brian Dusablon | Calendly | Availability Calendar | When people buy coaching sessions, I automate a link to them that allows them to select a time that I'm available. Works for my initial free consultations as well. Example: http://calendly.com/duce/free | Multiple meeting lengths and private/VIP links. | ||||||
30 | Brian Dusablon | Todoist | Tasks | Simple categories and folders and a very fast app across all platforms. Simple task lists. | |||||||
31 | Christy Pettit | Trello | Visual task management | Our team shows "to dos" (kanban) this way. | Easy drag and drop. Has been great to use with software dev team as it forces us to prioritize features | Some glitches in mobile for some team members | I am with JB. Cannot get as excited about Slack as everyone else is. | ||||
32 | Candice Kramer | Smartsheet | Project Management | Helps our team keep track of deadlines, capture emails and docs and effortless version control. | Instant Gantt charts, collaborative options, dynmaic updates | nothing I can think of | Anything put out by ATD. They must not have a usability team. | ||||
33 | Candice Kramer | SnagIt | image management | I use it every day for editing phtos and graphics for the web | range of image options | it remains open unless you actively close it | Messenger, and LinkedIn mobile | ||||
34 | Candice Kramer | VideoScribe | whiteboard video creator | Buildling whiteboard videos of concepts and topics that are difficult to show in a 'regular' video. | wide range of image management options; 1-step output as mp4 | help doesn't (but the tutorials make up for that) | |||||
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