What sort of work do you do day-to-day?


A range of things, find out what Mike Schmitz works on [here].


What is your daily to-do list tool? And why?


OmniFocus 2 (iOS/Mac) (For Personal Items)
Jira by Atlassian (iOS/Android/Web) (For Team Tool)


How do you go about taking notes?


Drafts (iOS/Apple Watch) (For capture notes) (Runners)
NvALT(Mac) (For quickly note-capture on Mac)
GoodNotes (iOS) (For sketch notes)
Reddit: GoodNotes 5 rumours
Drafts: How Siri and Drafts work


What do you use when it comes to organising your calendar?


BusyCal 3 (Mac/iOS) (Week views, no natural language)
Fantastical 2 (Mac/iOS) (For Mac, uses the menu bar + iOS full time)


Do you use a certain tool for tracking projects?


Jira by Atlassian (iOS/Android/Web) (Uses SCRUM method)
OmniFocus 2 (iOS/Mac) (For Personal projects)
Asana (iOS/Android/Web) (For family goals/planning goals)


What hardware do you use for work? (phone, laptop, pc)


15-inch MacBook Pro (late 2017) with Touch Bar
iPhone X
iPad 10.5inch Pro (with Apple Pencil)
OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock
Shure Beta 87 A Microphone
Heil PR 40 Microphone


What are your 3 favoured apps for getting the work done?


Logic Pro X
SoundSoap 5: (For cleaning audio files)
ScreenFlow: (Screen-recording technology)
Ulysses: (Beautiful, markdown editor for writing)
Blog: Ulysses Premium announcement:
SetApp: The netflix for app subscriptions


What are your team communication tools?


HipChat by Atlassian (Used alongside Jira and Confluence)
Slack (More for communities)