There's a new vitamin in the news, but this is not one you take, it's a new app for Apple computers called Vitamin-R and it helps you manage your time to take on tasks more efficiently.

"Recapture the lost art of joyful concentration." states the website.  "Overcome procrastination.  Rediscover the motivation within yourself."    

Vitamin-R  not only helps you organize your tasks, but breaks down each task to help you work smarter, analyze your performance and help you maximize your strengths and overcome your limitations.

You start by telling Vitamin-R what needs to get done.  It asks about your motivation level and resistance level to doing it right now.  It also helps you eliminate distractions including an option to turn off your iTunes and Skype.

If you are looking over your shoulder for Mom right about now, don't worry, the website promises that Vitamin-R plugs into your life rather than trying to take it over. "You can use it occasionally to overcome procrastination or mental blocks or re-organize your entire working life around the concepts that it embodies. "

It complements rather than replaces traditional to-do list managers, such as Things or OmniFocus and works with them, allowing you to drag over tasks and marks them completed when they are done.

Things mainly focuses on organizing your To Do Lists and Projects, they have apps for the Mac, iPhone and iPad.   OmniFocus is a personal task manager that allows you to store , manage and then process your thoughts, tasks, and miscellaneous items  when you can.  OmniFocus has apps for Mac, iPad, iPod Touch and the iPhone. 

But Vitamin-R takes it a step further by helping you set goals to manage your time.  You input when you want to accomplish the task and it tells you step by step, how to do it, how you are doing and even gives suggestions about how to better manage it next time.  

You can buy the Vitamin-R app from the Mac App store for only $14.95.

Photo Image from Vitamin-R website.

Posted in Gen X-Y, Technology And YOU

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