LessMeeting Helps You Lead Fewer, More Effective Meetings [Video]

Regardless of whether you lead meetings or simply attend them, they can be productivity killers and time-wasters. LessMeeting is a new web service that wants to make it easier to organize meetings, build an agenda, and keep track of action items and discussion topics to send out after the meeting.

LessMeeting, much like other previously mentioned tools like Minutes.io and Meetin.gs, is designed to make it easier for meeting organizers to prepare for a meeting, give everyone the information they need to walk in and immediately be productive, and to manage a meeting by staying on topic and moving through their agenda. At the end of the meeting, LessMeeting will automatically send out notes, minutes, and action items to the meeting attendees.

The service also integrates with Outlook and Outlook tasks so you can keep track of your meetings and to-dos in the desktop applications that you already use. It's not ideal for personal use, but if your team meetings or department meetings are completely dysfunctional, LessMeeting may be able to help. The service is free to try for 30/days, but after that it'll set you back $12/mo per user (or less if your company or team buys licenses for multiple users.)

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Daily App Deals: AppAdvice Helps You Find the Best iOS Apps for Free [Deals]

By John Verive Oct 13, 2011 2:30 PM 12,881 5

The Daily App Deals post is a round-up of the best app discounts of the day, as well as some notable mentions for ones that are on sale.

AppAdvice (iTunes) If "there's an app for that," then AppAdvice will help you find it. AppAdvice provides news and reviews for iOS apps and it helps you sift through all the noise in iTunes to find the good stuff. The app, usually $2, is free for today in celebration of the release of iOS 5. (dealmac)

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OneTask Helps You Focus on One To-Do At a Time [Video]

Mac: We all know multitasking is no good for you, but most to-do managers still overwhelm you with the sheer number of things you have to finish in a given time period. OneTask keeps track of all of them at once, but only shows you one at a time, helps you track how much time you spend on it, and manage your following tasks easily.

Unlike other to-do management tools, OneTask takes up a tiny strip of space at the top of your Mac's screen, and uses keyboard commands to add tasks, search for to-dos you've entered, and to see and manage the to-dos you've entered. You can easily skip tasks this way as well, setting custom delays so you'll be reminded to start the to-do again when you're ready to work on it.

When it's time to start a task, just press the play button on it, and the clock will start. You go to work, and the app keeps track of what you're working on. When you're finished, you can tell OneTask that you're finished, or if you need more time and want to come back to it later.

OneTask has a bit of a learning curve, especially when you're used to other, more list-driven to-do managers. Once you start using it, however, you'll find it addictive. It's available in the Mac App Store for $4.99.

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