Information Workflows

With so many applications and sources of information, it's sometimes difficult to know where to put "stuff". You may want to read it now, read it later, save it for archival purposes or even create an action from it.

In this episode I discuss my personal requirements for where I keep all my digital "stuff" dependent on its intended usage, and take a look at some of my favourite apps for managing a potential information overload.

After laying out my rationale, I take a look at Pocket, a great way of capturing webpages, videos and images. Pocket acts as the "pipeline" or intermediary to route my captured information into other apps. I take a look at capturing web pages and videos, links in Tweets and articles from RSS feeds, each one routed to a different app, depending on what I want to do with it.

To convert captured information into actions, I take a look at setting up and using the new OmniFocus Mail Drop service and demonstrate how I use that to keep my captured information organised.

The full episode includes sections on:

• Pocket Web Interface
• Pocket Mac Client
• Using TweetBot with Pocket
• Using Reeder with Pocket
• OmniFocus Mail Drop

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