I view offsite backups as insurance ... and if you don't need it, don't do it. If your hard drive dies and you don't care about anything on it, no problem. If you care about anything on it, then back it up offsite NOW, while you still can. Like many here, I use Crashplan, and it works well for me. I backup all of our…

From what I've read, Google is planning to move Google Voice functionality into its Hangouts service. Not super excited about that myself, but if they improve reliability then I can get behind it. Honestly, just not having to hit the "play" button on a voicemail 5 times in order to hear it would make me happy.

We use a combination of Mint and Excel to budget for our family of three. Mint gives us the real-time, on-our-smartphones status on things like our eating out budget. But I don't completely trust Mint's accuracy or longevity, so I have an Excel workbook with monthly tabs and an annual roll-up tab that I download our…

I've also been a huge All-Ett fan for 15 years. They're well-made and have found the company to be great. Once I switched to an All-Ett and started carrying it in my front pocket I never looked back.

I've been loving doit.im for several months now, and I get zero benefit from saying that. It's the simplest, cleanest tool I've found for doing GTD, but it still feels flexible.