Stacks by Tool Finder 27: CEO of Baron Fig Joey Cofone discusses his notebook productivity
This week’s episode is brought to you by Joey Cofone, CEO and co-founder of Baron Fig.
Joey co-founded Baron Fig, a company based in NYC that makes “tools for thinkers”, such as notebooks, pens, bags, and other goods.
What does your day-to-day job and work look like?
- Every day is different, but usually centered around design.
What do you use to tally all of your most important tasks together?
What is your planning process for the week ahead?
- They work using 12-weeks long templates on Basecamp for product releasing.
- Joey immediately adds tasks and ideas to Things 3 when they come to mind scheduling them at the moment.
What hardware do you use every day? (phone, laptop, pc)
- Apple products in general.
What are your 3 favorite apps/tools for work? (Eg. marketing, designing)
- iCal (Apple’s native calendar)
- Basecamp (iOS/Android)
- Things 3 (iOS/Mac)
- Every Monday, Joey takes the tasks of the week and assigns them an actual time to do them on his calendar (i.e. calendar blocking method).
What does your morning routine look like?
- Joey wakes up at 5:30, exercises for 30 minutes, meditates for 5/10 minutes, reads for 30 minutes, and then he does a specific music training.
Where can we find you and all of your wonderful things?
- Twitter - @joeycofone
- Baron Fig - here
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Special Guest: Joey Cofone.