Scout is my business partner, and she runs Nintendo Nonstop, a site about, well, Nintendo products. She’s the most productive person I know, and because of that I’m highlighting her in this week’s productivity toolkit.
Google Calendar For planning and scheduling tasks, as well as sharing calendars with contractors, clients, and other business contacts. Very helpful for reminders, especially since she’s online almost 24/7. However, when she’s on the go, she prefers to use an old school printout calendar from MS Outlook.
MS Excel This is a very powerful program, especially once you figure out how to use the more …read more

Are you a productivity nut?  Want to share your GTD tips and tools?  Have other productivity rules you live by?  If so, contribute your own productivity toolkit to Pimp Your Work by sending a quick email to me at celineroque [AT] b5media [DOT] com.
Click here to see the previous Productivity Toolkit entries.
If you send us your toolkit, we’ll feature a link to 1 or 2 of your websites/blogs on the entry.   Just send us a quick list of your productivity tools/hacks/techniques, with a 2 sentence description for each.
Send in your entries on or before December 28, 2007.

Jason Baird of Cool Blog Tech (there doesn’t seem to be anything on his site right now) shares his own productivity toolkit with us today. Here are the tools that Jason uses to stay productive:
HottNotes This tool lets Jason paste little sticky notes all over his 2 computer monitors. He uses these notes as neat reminders for the things he needs to accomplish.
Launchy This is a nifty little keystroke launcher. With this program, Jason can launch his frequently used applications within a couple of keystrokes.

Google Toolbar Bookmarks This keeps his bookmarked websites portable.
Google …read more

John Brougher is a writer and content manager for Freelance Switch. He’s a productivity nut, and a proud member of the cult of Merlin Mann. Although he uses more productivity techniques rather than tools, here’s his productivity toolkit:
Tadalist – John uses this to keep track of things to do when he collaborates with others.
Google Calendar and Google Notebook – Both these programs help John when it comes to time and project management. He says, “I love their accessibility–I can get to them anywhere that has Internet access”.
Yojimbo – According to John, he’s a huge fan of this …read more

I’m going to do a series of posts called “Productivity Toolkit”, where I ask professionals about which productivity tools they use.  They may or may not answer me. If you want to contribute to the Productivity Toolkit, simply email me (celineroque AT b5media DOT com) your list of tools and why you use them.  One sentence descriptions per tool will do.
To start off this series, I’m going to go ahead and post my own toolkit: