Author: Colter Reed

Colter lives in the heart of Silicon Valley with his wife and children. He enjoys golf, sings baritone, and watches mostly British TV shows.

10 Tips for Going to Bed Earlier

If You Don’t Get Enough Sleep, Everything Else Suffers

Getting up early is great, but it only works if you get to bed early, too. Here are my favorite ways to wind down and call it a day.

Inertia Can Help You Stay Productive

When the Going Gets Tough, Get Going!

Once you get going, the momentum of getting things done can help you keep going. The hard part is getting started in the first place.

Turn Readers into Visitors with Short URLs

Make it as Easy as Possible for People to Find You

A short URL can make it easier for people to visit your site, but there are time you don’t want to use one.

Batching Errands and Keeping Others on Track with OmniFocus

Two Perspectives to Keep Yourself (and Others!) on Task

Use custom perspectives in OmniFocus to track all of the errands you need to run and follow up with tasks you’ve delegated to someone else.

Scheduling Tasks in OmniFocus

How to Ignore Tasks You Can’t Act on Yet

How to use the deferred date in OmniFocus to schedule tasks for a specific day, week, or month.

Today: A Due + Flagged Perspective for OmniFocus

What Do You Want (and Need) to Do Today?

An OmniFocus perspective that will help you focus on the tasks you’ve selected to work on, without missing approaching deadlines.

Be the Dragon Warrior

If You Wait for Change to Happen, It Never Will

How do you overcome your doubts and fears to reach your goals? These six principles will help you become the Dragon Warrior at work, at home, and at life.

They say that good software makes the impossible possible and the easy elegant. Or something like that. I write software. I see it as a way to help bring out the best in people by giving them tools to do things they otherwise couldn’t do. (Technology is great that way.) What you do with that […]