This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

There was a time when there wasn't an app for that. Back in the day, I would take notes by hand,

use a real egg timer to track my productivity, and use maps. No, not Google Maps, like paper maps,

real ones. The kind of maps that still work when

space aliens invade and knock out the internet, and you have to drive to your parents' farm

in Kansas to live the rest of your life in their bomb shelter. Those maps. But now, there is an

app for that. And my app streamline my days in a gazillion different ways, so in honor of the

400th Get It Done Guy podcast, I would like to share

the apps that I use to work less and do more. My personal ecosystem is the iPhone and the Mac OS,

so if you use a different ecosystem, you may be able to find versions of the apps that run in your

world too, or maybe not, in which case I'm crying real, genuine, salty, salty tears for you, truly.

All of the apps that I mentioned here are smartphone apps, with the exception of a couple

of desktop apps that I'll specifically call out as being for the desktop.

Writing is a huge part of my workday, so even small productivity gains in writing and

using my computer add up quickly.

Normal smartphone keyboards simply suck.

I use swipe, SW-Y-P-E, and N-Type, N-I-N-T-Y-P-E keyboards. Swipe lets you type by tracing a word

with your finger, and N-Type is like swipe times 10. It lets you swipe one word using both hands

at once, and also lets you assign text to long

key presses. Nintype, like all custom keyboards and swipe, aren't as stable under the current

version of iOS because, hey, Apple has its problems, but I still use both sometimes for different

things because they have a tendency to be incompatible in different places. But the Nintype

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