Managing tasks, files, projects and clients is nobody’s idea of a good time, but Pagico will make your life easier by letting you manage all these things in one elegant package. It is one of the few apps that combines task and data management into one easy-to-use package.

Imagine having boarding passes right next to travel itineraries, or design drafts together with meeting notes. Then, see the big picture of your workload in interactive flowcharts compiled automatically from all your projects and contacts. Easily browse and archive your projects even when there are hundreds of them. With the carefully crafted user interface and unique features in Pagico, getting stuff done and staying on top of your business can be both easy and enjoyable.

Available for macOS, Windows and Ubuntu, Pagico 8 brings over 50 amazing new features and hundreds of user experience enhancements that make existing features easier to use than ever.

Ultimately, what Pagico 8 brings is much more than just a task manager. It’s an elegant work environment that helps you get organized, be more productive, and feel awesome.

Download today and try for free for 2 weeks to see how Pagico 8 can make your life easier.

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My thanks to Pagico for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

There is no better feeling than stumbling upon something delicious that you can’t find anywhere else. The hot sauce addicts over at Fuego Box scour the globe every month and sift through thousands of sauces to deliver you the tastiest of the tasty. They’re a subscription service that delivers nuanced, flavorful hot sauces, showcasing flavor and food instead of heat. Available as a quarterly or monthly subscription, sign yourself up or give as a gift. Just hurry because you’re already missing out on the best hot sauces you’ve never heard of. No long-term commitment necessary.

Pricing starts as low as 12.95 a month, and they are offering our readers $10.00 of your first box, just visit Fuego Box or enter the code: TOYS

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My thanks to Fuego Box for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship via Syndicate Ads.

Last year I made the mistake of paying full-price for an unlocked iPhone 6s Plus so I could get out of my 2-year contract cycle with AT&T. If I had thought a bit harder about it, I would have gone with Apple’s Upgrade Program.

From what I can tell, the numbers I crunched last year still stand. In fact, if anything, the Apple Upgrade plan is even a better deal now than it was last year.

As I said in this article last fall, if you like to upgrade every year, if you’re not ultra-thrifty, if you don’t care about keeping your old hardware, and if you like to pay for convenience, then Apple’s Upgrade program actually sounds like a pretty sweet deal.

The only “inconvenience” of the Apple Upgrade Plan is that you have to make an appointment at an Apple Store to swap out your old phone for the new one.

Speaking of podcasts, I was just recently interviewed by Nick Snapp for his productivity show, Make it Snappy.

Nick and I had a fantastic conversation. We discussed living a focused life, building a business, balancing creative entrepreneurship while raising a family, how do develop habits, doing karate moves, and more.

Transform your home.

Avea transforms any place with beautiful dynamic light moods. Control your ambience from your phone, iPad, or Apple Watch, and unwind in one of these carefully crafted settings with subtly changing light:

• Magic Hour
• Northern Glow
• Mountain Breeze
• Cozy Flames
• Sunny Field
• Fairy Woods
• Caribbean Sea
• Candy Land
• Calm Provence
• Cherry Blossom

With Avea Flare, bring dynamic light moods anywhere. The battery-powered, wirelessly charged LED lamp illuminates any place for more than 8 hours on a single charge. And the best: with IP65 water resistance, your home atmosphere can now extend to the outside, too.

Smart technology.

Avea connects directly to your iPhone, iPad or Android phone using Bluetooth Smart technology, without requiring additional gateways or bridges. But it doesn’t stop there: once you have chosen a light scene, the smart LED lightbulb will take care of the rest, not requiring a constant connection to your phone or iPad.

Wrist-controlled.

Avea on Apple Watch makes it easier than ever to pick the perfect lighting for your mood. Simply raise your wrist to view the current status of Avea at a glance, and effortlessly transform your home with a simple tap.

Get Avea Flare now and enjoy an immersive atmosphere.

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My thanks to elgato for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Wouldn’t it be great to have a personal task management app that integrates with the tools you already use, allowing you to seamlessly view all of your tasks on one screen? Rindle does this and more, making it easier than ever to keep your day organized.

Your tasks are everywhere: email, to-do apps, project management apps, and collaboration tools… to name a few. Many people are using multiple tools for their personal tasks and projects, which wastes time and complicates their day. Rindle brings all of your tasks together into one place, helping you to simplify your personal workflow.

Leverage the tools you already use to centralize your information into one easy location. If you use apps like Gmail, Slack, Trello, Basecamp, Todoist and Github, you’re going to love how you can aggregate all of your tasks into a single screen, providing some zen to your hectic day.

If you are jumping between tabs in your browser to track down work, or sifting through email to remember something you had to get done, then you are wasting precious time each day. Let Rindle keep everything in one central location for you. Get instant access to our private beta today.

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My thanks to Rindle for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Amazon is a great place to shop, but it’s not the best place to discover new, beautiful things.

Canopy brings a more curated, community-driven experience to shopping on Amazon – with an organized catalog of beautiful products recommended by experts and people with great taste.

You can see what’s new and trending, shop by category or brand, or even shop for gifts by personality type. Community members can save products, organize them into collections, and follow their favorite curators to receive personalized recommendations.

Also, to celebrate Amazon Prime Day, the Canopy team has been working around the clock to hand pick all the best products from the promotion.

Check it out on desktop, iOS or Android.

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My thanks to Canopy for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate

Beautifully simple. Showcasing your creativity is easy with Portfolio.

When your creative work is your life’s work, nothing is more important than having a beautiful portfolio website. With Portfolio – which comes free with any Adobe Creative Cloud plan – you can quickly and simply build a website to showcase your creative work, so you can get back to doing what you do best.

Flexible Custom Design: Our layouts are the foundation to build your own unique Portfolio. Pick one as a starting point, and then customize it to create a tailor-made website. Your work looks beautiful and polished in Portfolio, whether you choose an “off-the-shelf” layout, or prefer to customize.

Responsive Design: Ensure your work looks great across devices with a responsive layout optimized for all screen sizes. Preview your website on desktop, tablet, and mobile as you edit.

Painless Customization: Our editor is designed to take the pain out of editing and creating your website. Focus on what you’re creating with a distraction-free editor, and see your creative vision come to life in just a few clicks.

Live Editing

Watch your changes as you make them, using the simple editing remote. Anything you can see, you can customize.

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My thanks to Adobe for sponsoring the site this week! Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Mobile app revenue is on track to exceed $100 billion by 2020. A few apps are making over a million dollars a day but unfortunately the large majority of app publishers today make less than $500 a month. The publishers that dominate the app stores are the ones with the deep pockets required to collect, process and utilize data at an extremely sophisticated level. The rest, whether it’s indie app developers or many Fortune 1,000 companies, simply have basic mobile analytics to try and understand their users.

Pyze Growth Intelligence brings the same sophisticated intelligence and marketing services that big companies use to the fingertips of all app publishers. Pyze automatically understands the entire userbase, uses machine learning to create clusters of similar groups and automates interactions with each user to put your app’s growth on autopilot.

Intelligence Explorer selectively targets the entire user base through automated segmentation and real-time explorations across key behavioral attributes like engagement, loyalty, revenue, attrition-risk, and more.

Growth Automation creates interaction points used to onboard new users, engage active users and resurrect users in attrition, automatically driven by behavioral intelligence, milestones and key user actions.

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My thanks to Pyze for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

Corbett Barr:

We know what needs to be done. The strategy part is almost laughably simple. But the execution… the execution phase is the graveyard of good intentions.

Showing up day after day after day, to do repeatedly do something, requires incredible self-discipline and focus.

Have you ever wanted to schedule your email rather than send it right away? Or sent an email to a wrong person?

If your answer is yes, then MailButler is just the right thing for you.

This program allows you to schedule an email to be sent at a specific date and time. So you can fulfill lots of tasks in advance by writing several emails at once and letting MailButler ensure their scheduled delivery later.

Or another familiar situation: incorrectly addressed, unfinished, or in any other way mistaken email. Luckily, MailButler keeps the email in your computer’s outbox for a short while once you’ve pressed “send”—just define how long you want this safety period to be. During this time you can undo the sending of the email and correct it the way you want.

There are 7 other cool features that MailButler adds to your Apple Mail, such as the ability to convert emails to notes, upload attachments to the cloud regardless of size, create beautiful signatures, and more. The developers are regularly adding new components to this list.

Check it out now! Use this coupon code to get a 20% discount (valid for one month): TOOLS_TOYS20

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My thanks to MailButler for sponsoring the site this week. Sponsorship via The Syndicate.

The silliness of the name is (I hope) inversely proportional to the awesomeness of what we’re doing…

In a couple of weeks I’m leading a group through The Focus Course. I’ll be doing the course myself — sharing my daily progress on the community forums — and so will hundreds of other folks.

Click here to find out more and RSVP.