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009 How to Choose a Good Mobile Tablet – ProductivityCast

If you are looking to purchase your first mobile tablet, or you're in the market to buy a new one, you're in luck! In this episode, Ray, Augusto and Francis tackle some of the important questions you should ask yourself about what kind of mobile tablet you should own. As a quick overview, please take note of the following criteria you can use to make a decision: Operating System – Choose the operating system that matches your smartphone. If you don’t have a smartphone, compare Android, iOS and Windows operating systems against one another by the features you're most likely to use, not the marginal features. Choose the right tablet format factor for your productivity needs. App parity, or select based on the need of a specific app(s). Decide on a budget. Choose a few tablets based on operating system, form factor, app parity, and budget to test in your local electronics store. Now, go enjoy this cast! Give us feedback! And, thank you for listening and please send us your questions! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Amazon Kindle Fire tablets Day One (iOS/Mac journal software) OmniFocus 2 (iOS/Mac GTD-inspired software) iCalendar Sync Cloud Google Chrome Remote Desktop Outlook Microsoft Outlook Evernote ASUS Chromebook Flip Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Lenovo Yoga and Yoga Book UX (user experience / user design) Palm Foleo Jeff Hawkins Amazon Fire Kids Edition Facebook developers forced to use Android smartphones until it's better Google Maps Raw Text Transcript Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by key words or phrases. 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.080 are you ready to manage your work and 0:00:02.100,0:00:05.940 personal world better to live a more 0:00:04.080,0:00:06.779 fulfilling productive life then you've 0:00:05.940,0:00:09.719 come to the right place 0:00:06.779,0:00:12.389 welcome to productivity cast the weekly 0:00:09.719,0:00:14.849 show about all things productivity here 0:00:12.389,0:00:18.210 are your hosts ray Sidney-Smith and 0:00:14.849,0:00:20.310 Augusto Pinaud welcome back everybody to 0:00:18.210,0:00:22.710 productivity cast the weekly show about 0:00:20.310,0:00:24.840 all things personal productivity I'm Ray 0:00:22.710,0:00:26.490 S-dney-Smith and I'm here with Augusto 0:00:24.840,0:00:28.980 Pinaud how's it going Augusto good 0:00:26.490,0:00:32.070 morning how are you today I'm doing 0:00:28.980,0:00:34.079 really well and we are joined again with 0:00:32.070,0:00:36.120 our regular contributor Francis Wade how 0:00:34.079,0:00:37.290 are you doing Francis I'm fine it's 0:00:36.120,0:00:40.469 great to be with you guys again 0:00:37.290,0:00:42.750 I am sitting in my office and looking at 0:00:40.469,0:00:44.700 the beautiful sunny sky and looking 0:00:42.750,0:00:47.520 forward to this conversation we are 0:00:44.700,0:00:50.460 going to be talking about choosing a 0:00:47.520,0:00:52.680 tablet computer and/or mobile tablet as 0:00:50.460,0:00:54.390 some people call it and I think this is 0:00:52.680,0:00:56.969 a really important topic for a lot of 0:00:54.390,0:01:00.120 people because of the fact that we we 0:00:56.969,0:01:03.899 use screens of different sizes today and 0:01:00.120,0:01:05.880 as we traverse between screens that's 0:01:03.899,0:01:09.330 really important that the tool we use 0:01:05.880,0:01:11.220 the tool we choose to use is effective 0:01:09.330,0:01:12.689 for us and that comes with a lot of 0:01:11.220,0:01:15.210
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008 Battle of the Spreadsheet Software – ProductivityCast

Let’s get ready to ruuuummmmmblllllle! We’re going to battle until the last spreadsheet software is standing! Okay, not really. But, isn't that an exciting way to start anything!? In this episode, we introduce our latest, regular podcast contributor, Art Gelwicks of The Idea Pump, to ProductivityCast. We’re excited to now have Francis and Art join us going forward and really increase the value of diverse productivity perspectives and knowledge. We each come at the world of personal productivity from different angles and backgrounds, and we believe that strengthens our ability on ProductivityCast to get to universal axioms as well as the deeper discussions of differences in personalities and workflows, from which you, our listeners, will benefit. So, let’s get on with the discussion about the pro’s and con’s of the most popular spreadsheet software--and their productive uses! Enjoy! Give us feedback! We love to hear from you and send your questions and suggestions. And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Art Gelwicks Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Early history of Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel Google Sheets Apple Numbers LibreOffice Calc SharePoint Microsoft Access G Suite ← this is a free 30-day trial of G Suite for new accounts (Thank Ray, Google Small Business Advisor - Productivity! ;-) Getting Things Done in Google Sheets / Excel (template and video tutorial) Evernote ← Sign up for a free Evernote account here! CRM (This is a Webinar Ray presented on How to Choose a CRM for Small Business) OneNote Google Apps Script Google Slides Apple Pages iCloud Apple Keynote OpenDocument format Google Drive Microsoft Excel Training Google Sheets Training Apple Numbers Training Ray: We didn’t discuss this, but I’d remisce if we didn’t mention Airtable. Per their website, “Airtable makes it easy to organize stuff, people, ideas and anything else you can imagine with your team.” Worth checking out! Raw Text Transcript 0:00:00.030,0:00:04.080 are you ready to manage your work and 0:00:02.129,0:00:05.940 personal world better to live a more 0:00:04.080,0:00:07.049 fulfilling productive life then you've 0:00:05.940,0:00:09.750 come to the right place 0:00:07.049,0:00:12.450 welcome to productivity cast the weekly 0:00:09.750,0:00:14.880 show about all things productivity here 0:00:12.450,0:00:18.510 are your hosts Ray Sidney-Smith and 0:00:14.880,0:00:20.580 Augusto Pinaud and welcome back to 0:00:18.510,0:00:22.050 productivity cast everybody the weekly 0:00:20.580,0:00:24.510 show about all things personal 0:00:22.050,0:00:26.279 productivity as do you know I'm Ray 0:00:24.510,0:00:28.500 Sidney-Smith and I'm here with Augusto 0:00:26.279,0:00:30.900 Pinaud how's it gonna Augusto going pretty 0:00:28.500,0:00:33.090 well pretty well fantastic 0:00:30.900,0:00:34.890 well it's our pleasure to introduce our 0:00:33.090,0:00:36.780 newest podcast contributor to the 0:00:34.890,0:00:38.790 productivity cast team Art Gelwicks 0:00:36.780,0:00:40.860 he's a business process project 0:00:38.790,0:00:42.450 management and collaboration consultant 0:00:40.860,0:00:45.059 for professionals small to medium-sized 0:00:42.450,0:00:46.770 businesses and nonprofits our is also 0:00:45.059,0:00:48.930 the founder of The Idea Pump 0:00:46.770,0:00:51.120 consultancy definitely check out the 0:00:48.930,0:00:53.969 blog over there at the idea pump dot com 0:00:51.120,0:00:55.620 and is an experienced public speaker 0:00:53.969,0:00:57.300 welcome to ProductivityCast oh thank you 0:00:55.620,0:00:59.940 I appreciate it it's good to be with you 0:00:57.300,0:01:02.430 guys and talk about the topic du jour 0:00:59.940,0:01:04.170