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Mailbutler →

Productivity-boosting plugin for modern emailing.

Mailbutler is a light-weight extension for Gmail and Apple Mail that brings all missing functions of modern emailing straight to your inbox: create beautiful signatures, snooze, track and schedule your emails, notes, tasks... and so much more. The first 200 Offscreen readers get 28 days free Business trial and 20% off!

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Work Hard Anywhere →

Find the best cafés to work from

This iOS app is great for finding WiFi-powered cafés and co-working spaces in all major cities. It even includes info about WiFi signal strength and availability of power sockets, pricing, and even parking. All information is crowdsourced and therefore up-to-date and pretty reliable.

Peek Calendar→

The minimal calendar app

Peek Calendar is a minimalistic calendar app with a playful, yet simple interface. Tapping on a day folds out the respective entries. It doesn't overwhelm you with all those small symbols and coloured dots like many other calendars. There are different colour themes too!

Debitoor →

Easy invoicing for small business

When I founded my first company, I delegated all the unloved bookkeeping to my tax lawyer. Now there is Debitoor: all the invoices, payments, accounts, and receipts are in one place. We still need a tax lawyer for the annual tax statements, but it is way cheaper and a lot less work overall.

Tangible

Hold →

Credit card-sized phone stand

Hold serves as a stand for your smartphone. At the size of a credit card, it fits in every card holder or wallet. Always have it with you when you need it.

TUG →

Trip-safe plugs

Now that Apple killed the MagSafe plug, third party companies are here to offer alternatives: TUG puts the magnetic break-away connection right at the outlet. Advantage: it works not only for Apple products.

Verdeq Runabout →

A durable business bag

Fancy a business bag produced entirely from surplus material used for the topping of an Aston Martin or Porsche? The bags from Verdeq are very light, extremely durable, and water resistant. I've used mine (in light beige) for over a year now and it just doesn't get dirty. It does age in style though... like an old Aston Martin.

Perusal

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You’re doing your weekend wrong

Did you know that (according to this article) there are two kinds of leisure time: casual and serious. Only the latter will help you grow as a person. An interesting perspective on how we (ought to) spend our ‘off time’.

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‘Let the soul dangle’: how mind-wandering spurs creativity

In the German language, we have a unique expression for what you may call daydreaming: ‘die Seele baumeln lassen’ (which translates to ‘let the soul dangle’). This article gives some great insights into the methods and positive effects of mind-wandering.

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Show me a business problem and I’ll do my best to avoid it

Jason Fried explains how at Basecamp they try to avoid future problems instead of solving current ones. An astonishingly simple approach. By the way, their book Rework is always a refreshing (re)read.

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

– Eleanor Roosevelt