
This bartender won’t bring you a vodka martini, but it does bring the same crystal clear perfection to an often overlooked and overcrowded part of your Mac, the taskbar. This app boots up automatically each time I turn on my computer to get to work. Seeing as I do that an uncountable number of times per day, the savings quickly goes from seconds to minutes to hours. Taking Asana from a Chrome tab to its own window on my Mac desktop didn’t seem like a big win at first, but I realized that it saves me 5 to 10 seconds switching between apps and lists while writing. Like Gmail, it is an app I can’t do my business without. I use Asana to coordinate with virtual assistants, run my editorial calendars, and keep track of client projects and invoices. I use the free version for my businesses, though a paid version is available as well. Asana, for the uninitiated, is a popular to do list and project management app. AppSanaĪppSana does pretty much the same thing as Kiwi for Gmail, but for my Asana task manager instead of my Gmail account. The app also lets me quickly create Google Calendar events, Google Docs and other G Suite files from shortcuts within the app. I have both a personal and business Gmail account and have fast access to both within Kiwi. While it doesn’t do all that much, at a cost of free for the basic version and $5 for the premium, it is a useful utility at a low cost. Kiwi for Gmail essentially takes the Gmail tab from your browser and frees it to open in its own Mac app window. To most quickly navigate into and out of my inbox without a constant distraction or tab sitting open in Chrome, I use the app Kiwi for Gmail. I get a massive number of emails every day ranging from things I care about from clients to junk mail, pitches, and other stuff I don’t.

Whether I like it or not, the vast majority of communications for my business happen via email.
