TOOLS

Here are tools I’ve found helpful building my success by 1000 cuts.

Hopefully these help you with your journey. I’m not sponsored by anyone, these are things I’ve tested and found useful. If you have found any additional tools that have worked for you, I’d love to hear them.

Tool Name

Category

Usage

Alternate options

Audible

Audio Books

Audible has a great monthly subscription for ~$16 a month which gives you one credit. The mobile app works well and most titles are on there. Using audiobooks literally changed my life from 1 book a year to upwards of 20. The learning opportunity for this is just staggering. It is literally cheating at life, fishing with dynamite. Try it out if you haven’t, it’s one of my favourite tools.

Kobo (I’ve signed up with a US address to get some of the titles you can’t get on audible). Apple books seems to sound like its a valid alternative as well.

Azure DevOps – Microsoft

Backlog management

If you’re ready to take your Get Shit Done system to the next level, Azure DevOps provides you with a best in breed backlog management solution. It’s free for up to 5 users as well so it will work for a small team. Their licensing is very competitive too if your team grows bigger than that.If you’re ready to take your Get Shit Done system to the next level, Azure DevOps provides you with a best in breed backlog management solution. It’s free for up to 5 users as well so it will work for a small team. Their licensing is very competitive too if your team grows bigger than that.

Jira by Atlassian works well also. I prefer Azure DevOps as I feel the higher level grouping is much easier to use and visualise.

Calendar – I use Microsoft Outlook or Google

Time management

Using a digital calendar regardless of the provider is an absolute god send to help you manage your time. Writing it down is a great start so you don’t have to try and remember everything. Having it in a digital form means you can have it with you wherever you go and in a corporate setting, shows others when your time is already allocated or blocked so they are less likely to book over and create conflicts.

Basically whatever email provider you use will have a pretty decent calendar and phone app to get you started.

Commsec

Investing

I use Commsec for watching and buying individual stocks. The user experience is pretty good once you’ve worked out how to use it. They charge flat fee of around $20 for a trade no matter the volume of shares. At the time of writing some vanguard ETF products were starting to show up in here to buy as well. This is used for going long on stocks

This is an Australian stock exchange option. There will be plenty of options in your home country, have a quick search on the web.

Garmin Edge 530

All cycling tracking

This device is great for all cycling recording. I pair it with a heart rate monitor for more accurate heart rate metrics. All the activities upload into Garmin giving overall metrics from all devices. Integrates well with Strava so you can race your mates as well! There will be newer models out there, definitely worth a look for the latest and greatest.

Other Garmin models, Wahoo and any other decent bike computer.

Garmin Fenix 7x Sapphire Solar

All fitness tracking and sleep tracking

I’ve found this device invaluable. It tracks basically any exercise you can think of under the sun and once you’ve got your head around the Garmin user interface, it stores all of your activity together and can give some interesting aggregated metrics like body battery etc. I use this as a secondary device to track my sleep just to see the difference and play with the body battery metrics. The golf course navigation is awesome and the Spotify app on it is great for running.

Samsung Active watch 4, basically any other fitness tracker are other great tools.

IG Markets

Investing

I’ve started to have a play with IG markets to build my understanding and abilities to short stocks. You can go long as well, so far, the app looks great, the mobile app is good too.

There are plenty, have a quick search on the web.

OneNote – Microsoft

Note taking and information management

I use OneNote everyday for personal and work use. It’s great for any notes I take or any information I want to take down. It’s super simple, easy to use and really fast to find any note I’ve ever taken.

Evernote is an alternative I’ve heard people use, I’ve never used it but I still hear it’s a great product.

Oura ring

All sleep tracking

I’ve used my oura ring for over 3 years, it’s still going strong, battery still lasts for 4 or 5 days. I check my sleep every morning off my Oura religiously. The phone app is great, the user experience excellent. It looks like the newer ones require a subscription to see all metrics now on top of the ring purchase which is disappointing but still worth it.

Garmin, most smart watches, and Whoop strap are all great tools.

Spotify

Music

I use Spotify as my primary listening platform. I create playlists around certain genres so I can categorise what I listen to. Spotify now suggests similar songs which has generated some great finds. It’s ~12$ a month for almost all of the music in the world which I feel is very much worth it.

I also use Soundcloud for some music podcasts as the artists don’t put specific podcasts on Spotify

Trello

Task management

This is currently the best, free kanban/task management tool for managing your everyday tasks. It has a good phone app as well so you can add and manage tasks on the go so you don’t forget about them.

Planner from Microsoft – if you are already a Microsoft 365 user, you will already have this as part of your subscription and it works really well. Also has a good phone app.

Vanguard

Investing

I’ve been trying Vanguard for investing in indexes, ETF’s, and bundled shares. So far the user interface is really nice, the fees seem low and competitive, and you can set up a direct debit to auto invest for you so you can set and forget to start getting some compounding investing going.

There are plenty, have a quick search on the web.

Whatsapp

Social Collaboration

Having a social collaboration tool that can allow group chats and sharing really helps with getting social interaction if you are single or geographically dispersed. Whatsapp is a good option for everyone across platform as it doesn’t have the option to get sucked into a scroll hole like instagram or facebook/meta.

Instagram is a great alternative as you can share meme’s and funny crash videos. Just beware of the scroll hole and keep an eye on the time.

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