Crenk » productivity

Kick Productivity Into High Gear with ActionMethod

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:09:56 +0000

I’ve been a big fan of Behance products offline, for my meetings, site sketches, and to-do list from time to time. Now they are tackling productivity online with their new online app and comparable mobile app to always stay on top of the things that you need to do daily.

Action Method was introduced this year as the premiere application to manage your projects, tasks, planning, and meetings. The application allows you to create projects, create tasks, assign tasks, and manage a calendar. If tasks are falling behind you can nudge the people to whom you assigned them to in order to remind them of deadlines. Color coding is a big winner for this app as it’s easy to find what you’re looking for with alternating colors.

Have an iPhone or iTouch? No problem, your web application syncs with your mobile app so your to-do list is never far away. Incredibly useful and sure to improve with future updates, the app is free to download, and free for up to 50 tasks, premium service for unlimited tasks comes in at $12/month or $99/year.

Evernote Update Released

Luis Sandoval — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:47:28 +0000

Mac users rejoice, the new version of Evernote has just been released. Version 1.1.4 can be updated from the “Check for Updates” command from the Evenote menu.

For a break down of what this version brings to you, read the release notes.

Evernote is an effective way of making sure you never forget your ideas. With the ability to catch your ideas no matter where they are, a napkin, online, a street sign, a window posting, capture it all with Evernote. Evernote also links across your laptop, your desktop and your mobile so you are never far from the inspiration you seek.

You can read a full review of Evernote here.

Workology: Control Your Working Style

Abdylas Tynyshov — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:18:04 +0000

Company Name: Workology

Type of Industry: Career and Recruitment

Based: UK

Founded: April 2008

Competitors: LinkedIn and Xing

About: Workology is a peer-to-peer website that enables professionals to control the way they work.

There is no such thing as a job for life; freelancers, portfolio careerists, working parents, start-up entrepreneurs and retirees still feel they’ve got value to add and want to create and realize their way of working. They currently do this by relying mainly on the referral economy or the fragmented recruitment industries and that is hugely inefficient.

Workology simplifies the current process by offering people a free platform to create work opportunities and gain support to suit their individual work styles.

Crenk Thoughts: Everyone wants to control their own working style, but wanting alone is not sufficient. Because we all know that it’s simply not possible for some professionals to work flexible times e.g teachers, doctors, firefighters etc. Therefore, Workology is suitable for those professionals that have been listed above (i.e freelancers, entrepreneurs, retirees etc) – professionals that if they work flexible times, their productivity won’t be affected. In contrast, their productivity might even increase.

Also, Workology will have a tough time competing with niche websites like oDesk and RentACoder. Because these sites give a better marketplace for programmers and IT professionals to land a job. I also noticed that there are not many established companies posting job opennings in Workology. In that sense, I think Xing is doing a great job of attracting big players like Dell, Samsung, Sedo, Hitachi, 1&1 etc.

So, will Workology be around after 5 years? If they want to, then they have a lot of work to do…