60 Tips in 60 Minutes
Thought Technologies
- GTD (Getting Things Done) by David Allen
- Unschedule from The Now Habit by Neil Fiore
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
- Explorer, Artist, Judge, Warrior: the four roles creative people play from Roger von Oech's "A Whack on the Side of the Head"
Equipment
- Get a larger computer monitor. Like the Apple Thunderbolt Display or (more affordably) Ben's Dell he uses at home.
- Fujitsu Scanner
- Dymo Label Maker
- iPhone (you should have nice things)
- Apple TV
- Monoprice.com
- Amazon Prime
- HelloFax
Technology Hygiene
- Onsite Backup
- Off-site: Backblaze
- File-sharing
- One Password
- CleanMyMac & Daisy Disk
- IFTTT
Law Practice Management
- Rocket Matter & Clio & Daylite (& Billings Pro)
- Harvest (simple time-tracking and invoicing)
- Strides App (for tracking progress toward goals over time)
- OmniFocus
- LibreOffice
- For converting .wpd files to .doc
- Basecamp & Wunderlist
- Personal/Business Finance: Mint & Ready for Zero
- Business Bookkeeping: Xero
- Contact Management
- Cobook
- Google Contacts
- BusyContacts coming this fall
- For duplicate contacts: Contacts Cleaner
Tools for Doing Law
- Square (for getting paid)
- Evernote
- automatic OCR
- tagging
- clipping webpages
- screengrabs: Shift+Command+4
- Scheduling
- Listservs
- Date-Time-Calc 2
- Text Expander
- OmniOutliner
- Typography for Lawyers
- Skype and FaceTime
- PDFPen Pro
- iExplorer
- TrialPad
- Mindnode
- Soulver
Getting Better
Being Online
- Domain name registration and email hosting/forwarding: Hover.com
- Website: Squarespace.com
- Email Newsletters: Mail Chimp