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Open Thread: What's your killer app?
Merlin Mann | Aug 21 2006
The other day I was talking with someone about the novel and non-obvious ways that people use Excel in their work and home life. Gotta say, I've personally seen some pretty amazing stuff happen when people take a favorite app, get really good at it, then bend it to their will. (And Excel is perfect for this.) This tracks to Danny's Life Hack concept by which the alpha geeks were achieving lofty heights of productivity partly by mastering 1-3 "killer apps" -- then using them to solve most of their information and functional problems in fairly novel ways. So my question for you: What's your killer app? Is there one place where 80% or more of your activity takes place (by choice)? Vim? Excel? Perl? Firefox? Post-it Notes? What's yours and when did you realize you'd become a badass at using it? 106 Comments
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 I am new to GTD,...Submitted by James (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 11:58am.
I am new to GTD, first introduced to it here are 43 Folders, recently I picked up the book, GTD. I know most of you are Mac Centric, but I have a Windows computer at work and home (although recently set up an Ubuntu Linux machine at home) I would have to say categorically, hands down it would be Outlook. I know that many people frown on Outlook, but it is what my employer has us use. I sync up the Calender and Contacts to my PocketPC. Honestly, I like Outlook, but have not really used many other corporate email systems. 9 or so hours a day it is open. Also, lately I use a Word based ToDo list that I am tweaking to my needs. Also, it's not really an APP, but my flash drive goes everywhere with me and I keep any files that I need for projects. I am a huge fan of excel as well as it used for many project at work, or more accurately parts of projects. I like to tweak the formatting. » POSTED IN:
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