Todoist, Evernote & Fountain Pens | Carl Pullein

What sort of work do you do day‐to‐day?

Carl works as communication coach in Korea and also as University visiting professor at teaching a course called Business Creativity.

What is your daily to‐do list tool? And why?

• Todoist (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows/Web) (Both for personal and work tasks)
• OmniFocus (iOS/Mac) (Used in the past)

How do you go about taking notes?

• Evernote (iOS/Android/Mac/Windows) (For both personal and work notes)

What do you use when it comes to organising your calendar?

• Google Calendar (Android/iOS) (Integrates better with Gmail)
• Fantastical 2 (Mac/iOS) (Best mobile app)
• Apple Calendar (Mac/iOS) (Clean mobile view)

Do you use a certain tool for tracking projects? Or do you solely

use a task list?

• Asana (iOS/Android) (For a big picture view)
• Steve Dotto's video on Using Asana for managing content - here
• How Carl uses Asana - here

What hardware do you use for work? (phone, laptop, pc)

• 27-inch iMac (from 2012)
• MacBook Pro (2 years old)
• iPhone X

What are your 3 favoured apps for getting the work done? (Eg.

marketing, designing)

• Keynote (For presentation design and logo design sketch)
• Photoshop (Used only occasionally)
• Illustrator
• Ulysses (For short and medium form writing)
• Scrivener (For writing books)

What are your team communication tools?

• KakaoTalk (For communication and share files with group classes of some companies managers)

What app do you use for handling emails?

• Newton Mail
• Apple Mail (Used occasionally)
• Gmail (For online shopping and newsletter)

What's your planning process? How do you plan for the week or

month ahead?

• Carl starts a note in Evernote for any new specific projects and creates a list of tasks at the bottom of the note, then the tasks and copied and pasted into Todoist.

Any of other notable apps you do like to mention that you use to

get things done?

• Numbers by Apple (For simple spreadsheets, to track data like YouTube subscribers)