![]() I journal in Day One on my Mac and my on-the-road devices designed in California, manufactured in China.1Password is my only place for super secure passwords.When brainstorming I use MindNode which is the most simplistic and beautiful mind mapping software for the Mac & iOS.Evernote holds all my notes and reference material (together with my Doxie scanner I am practically paperless).Dropbox keeps my private and Box my professional life in sync.Working for a big corporation I ended up with a mix of Microsoft Office for Mac 2015 and Apple’s iWork suite. ![]() To everyone’s surprise OmniFocus is my externalised brain and runs on all my devices.To make calendaring more enjoyable, I use the gorgeous Fantastical most of the time.Plugins like Indev’s Mail-Act-On and MailTags as well as UniversalMailer and the OmniFocus Clip-O-Tron Therefore Mail.app is my weapon of choice fighting the daily email storm. I am on Exchange and therefore have not too many options.But then again I did my fair share of supporting the incredible creative indie Mac development community. Consequently I try to keep the number of tools and applications down to my main needs, although I own far too many licenses of far too many tools. It’s more, like Merlin Mann said: “ Keeping it appropriate”. I try to keep things as simple as I can, but not for just simplicity’s sake. The rest of the family uses a 2nd generation MacBook Air 11”, a couple of iPhone 5s and non-retina iPad Minis as well as two current AppleTVs.Black Apple Watch Sports edition which is delivering far more than I expected from a first generation product.White iPhone 6 Plus with 128GB which has rendered my white Retina iPad Mini with 128GB essentially redundant.The last generation MacBook Pro Retina 13” with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD hooked to a 27” Apple Thunderbolt Display and a Cisco DX80 Video Conference screen when working at home.However, we have consolidated and simplified a bit recently. My family and I own far too much Apple gear. My work requires me to travel quite a bit through Europe and when not on the run I tend to work either from Cisco’s corporate office in downtown Stuttgart or my home office, which is located in the basement of our house and pictured below. If I am blogging mobile I use a combination of Drafts, the iOS Tumblr app and DropShare for iOS to get things shipped. The site uses a customised version of StyleHatch’s “ Byron” theme. There is still a small Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosted at DigitialOcean which serves files and inline images to the site which I upload using DropShare. Supporting Markdown, allowing me to use my favourite blog editor MarsEdit paired with Byword, Tumblr eliminates the high level of fiddling I used to do on other platforms - just because there were too many opportunities for it. It’s not that any of these platforms ever was the problem - all of them are amazing in their field and I highly recommend them - it is really me.Īs history goes the site is now where it once started: Tumblr. It has been on WordPress hosted by the amazing WPEngine, Squarespace and Kirby hosted at DigitialOcean before. Seriously, my site has been around many platforms and by now I am a blog migration expert. I switch blogging platforms hoping my writing gets better. Lots of people switch their todo list application every few weeks hoping to get more productive. Working for a large, global corporation that needs processes and systems to glue everything together may allow me to write about these topics from a slightly different angle and hopefully in a useful and entertaining way. Many Technology, Creativity and Productivity blogs are written by self-employed folks or freelancer which I appreciate. I am also not a part of the OmniGroup support team which is awesome, by the way. Sometimes it feels like I should clarify that I am not associated with OmniGroup in any form or shape, but highly endorse their products. I have been focussing a lot of my posts on the efficient use of OmniFocus by the OmniGroup. I turned forty this year, have two kids and am married to a wonderful wife. All you read from me on the interwebs is my opinion - because I have one - not my employer’s. You can find my alter ego writing at Medium. Living in Stuttgart, Germany - the home of Mercedes, Porsche and Bosch - I am working for Cisco taking responsibility for its Innovation Team for Service Providers across Europe, Middle East, Africa and Russia. This field of tension seemed like a great subject for me to explore. Technology is here to help with that, but interestingly enough it often does exactly the opposite. ![]() We all are challenged with dividing our time and attention. My name is Sven Fechner and I love writing about Creativity, Productivity and Technology. What a coincidence that you are stopping at my little cabin on the Internet.
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