I had gotten a bunch of ‘direct’ comments on my rambling productivity post (confessions of a productivity geek) that I have started penning more opinions on personal tools I find useful. I love trying to figure out if new bits of software, scripts or even web-based services might help spark my next idea or burst of efficiency.  The biggest thing I have learned is that nothing is worth keeping/investing in if I can’t work into my own personal workflow…although that does not keep from wasting time and money.  So, although I look forward to providing more detail and opinion in the future -- let me add my latest little nugget I am playing with and I have high hopes.

Size Up, from ‘Irradiated Software’ is a program offering something I have searched for before….BUT..given what it does, I am not surprised I never found it. Thank you MacWorld for tipping me off to this one.  

The capability I was looking for, that I think has been present natively in non-Mac platforms, was simply an easy way to resize and anchor programs or certain windows (like two different word docs) so I could read and/or pull quotes from one while typing in the other. 

From the their own description:

SizeUp allows you to quickly position a window to fill exactly half the screen (splitscreen), a quarter of the screen (quadrant), full screen, or centered via the menu bar or configurable system-wide shortcuts (hotkeys). Similar to “tiled windows” functionality available on other operating systems.

Additional features include moving windows from one monitor to another, from one Space to another, and restoring a window to its original size and position (SnapBack).

I am close to buying it..I am only a day into the demo download but it appears to the dead simple things I wanted/needed and indications are high this could stick in my workflow! 

How about you?  Mac user or not…what are your favorite tools for getting things done?   This was a minor one -- but I look forward to sharing more detail on my FAVS!  Here is the quick list:  Things, Evernote, MacJournal and a number of others…)