Here is the current list of Mac Productivity postings as transferred from HaveMacWillBlog.com. They are organized under three headings, and collectively they provide a reasonable insight into the work I’m currently doing on Mac productivity. They include most of what you need to get started on improving your effective use of the Mac.

I will gradually rewrite these postings in the process of producing the training course that I’m building, so in a way they constitute a ‘work in progress’.

How To Be Productive – The Fundamentals

These postings are about exploring and understanding the Mac environment. These are the things to think about as the foundation of productivity; the keyboard, the mouse, windows, the screen, the browser & email, the desktop and files.

The Principles of Personal Productivity This lays out, as best I can, what I think the primary principles of personal productivity are.

The Mac Desktop This provides a method for managing the Mac desktop in a way that help you to be more productive, because you don’t have to spend any time searching for files.

Taming the Mouse Using the mouse and keyboard wisely is the key to Mac productivity.

Managing Windows Mac productivity can also be impacted by how well you make use of windows within your workspace.

How To Be Productive Using Spaces This is a description of how I use Spaces, the Mac multiple desktop capability, in a productive way.

False Applications This posting is about how some important applications are completely wrong-headed.

The Psychological Foundation

There are a number of strands to Mac productivity. Psychology is one strand – perhaps the most important. In the end, you could say that this is all psychology.

Living The Productive Life You have to commit yourself to observing yourself. It’s “sine qua non”, I’m afraid – but if you want to be productive you have to do that anyway.

Building A Psychological Base This is the second in a series of postings on psychological factors that affect productivity. It contains some interesting questions to which you probably do not know the answer. Curiouser and curiouser…

The Art of Memory An initial posting on memory and the way that it works. (You need to remember shortcuts. This is relates to that).

The Persistence of Memory How long do our memories last? Memories are like ice in the sun – eventually they melt away.

Mac Productivity Software

This set of postings deal with productivity applications that can help you be more productive on the Mac. Some are just nice-to-have while others are necessary.

Some Productivity Apps The first of a set of recommendations on productivity software.

The Primary Productivity Apps This posting focuses on QuickSilver, the most important productivity app on the Mac.

Hotkeys: The Fulcrum of Productivity This posting discusses iKey, another important Mac productivity product.

Using OS X Services The second page of recommendations, that only recommends one shareware product, because it focuses on explaining OS X Services.

The Filing of Files I spent quite a while finding a Mac product that would manage files for me in a useful and practical fashion. Eventually I stumbled into Journler.

Convenient Information More productivity apps. These are about having the information you need available to you.

Managing the Mac This discusses freeware and shareware that helps in managing the Mac – not that the Mac needs much management.

AppleScript and Writing Scripts For those who aren’t afraid to code the Apple environment provides an excellent scripting capability.

Full List of Productivity Apps A full list of all the Mac productivity apps mentioned in other postings on this topic.