What’s the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in past year?

google calendar embed in gmail.

mozilla definately got a good bite of the future internet bussiness.

Zoho looks to be the best SaaS collaboration suite available.
I looked over the market offering about 3 years ago and have been using it ever since. Their service so far has been better than I would've hoped for.
I believe they get the collaboration thing and the price is right, especially compared to those who are rather 'one-or two trick' SaaS providers.

I guess the coolest thing in the past year was Obama! :)

Linux

Surprised it wasn't mentioned more often, but Google Reader has been huge for me. But maybe that doesn't count as productivity, as I also might be wasting more time due to reading greater numbers of blogs on wider variety of subjects.

Digsby...by far, the best all-in-one IM, Social Networking, & Email tool out there.

Celio Redfly.

Unified communications is great for productivity. Combine IM, Email, calendars, contacts, PBX and real-time presence for SMBs - and make it free - and its even better. That's what Unison does. Check out the website here to find out who really likes (hint: models).

Without a doubt the best for me has been OneNote 2007.

Being a small businessman my biggest challenge was to adopt the best invoicing application that would cater to my invoicing needs. This need was fulfilled by http://www.invoicera.com/.

If you'd like a tool for managing your time and projects, you can use this application inspired by David Allen's GTD:

http://www.Gtdagenda.com

You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.

think-cell. i make a lot of charts/graphs. [it makes charts/graphs - ppt add on]

Robert asks for productivity, not fun ;-)
Google, Google and Google (Calendar, Email, Docs, Reader) definitely. And not only for me, but together with my team.

For me it is my external hard drive, love to have all my pictures safe

I have to add that my second favorite is learning about Virtual Assistants (online resources for helping with tasks that can be delegated). I like virtual delegation..

NETBOOK! Mine is a a 10 inch netbook - It is the first time I feel that I have true mobile computing because I can stick it in my handbag and carry it around all day.

iPhone, the Swiss Army Knife for Geeks :D

No more money into stocks.
On the savings account money actually makes more money. That's productive.

Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop

I use Tonido workspace. It is a personal information manager. works both offline and onlne.

For me it's a yellow legal pad and a pencil (cheap productivity tools).

Visiting Twitter and Friendfeed once a month, and Facebook once a day.

Outlook 2007

Lightroom 2.xx

Processing, then keeping track of all my photos is a breeze with this and it's highly reccommended

Math education done right.

A month of personal tutoring for the price of one hour of a human's time.

Things.

Both on Mac and iPhone

IPhone

MASTURBATION ABUNDANCE

The book Fit for Life! A true life changer. If you do not have your health then all the other things seem pointless. It has added a few more years on to my life so I can now enjoy all the new technological advancements in good health.

I'm a fan of Reqall and Jott. Great ways to make sure you grab that passing thought while driving or away from your paper or iPhone.

OH - and, the more important productivity tool: DOING A FULL WEEKLY REVIEW EVERY WEEK!!! (nothing beats usin' that great tool called your brain once a week to align, refresh and renegotiate all of your agreements with yourself.

Feedly, just discovered it but so far I love it. Okay, too new to be the best perhaps.
So, then I'll have to say TweetDeck...just wish it didn't cut me out of FriendFeed.

Oh god robert .. do we really need another Pirillo type post of endles Twitter captures to write a post around. I'm on the verge from unsubscribing from him again because of this type of mind numbing verbal polution.

Please stop doing this I beg of you for all that is holy.

MacBook, iPhone 3G, Things, TweetDeck, Tweetie, iWorks 09.

For me, it has to be the still very new offering from Google Labs: Multiple Inboxes. It's absolutely decimated the time I spend in Gmail.

iPhone

Webmaster Radio, Tweetdeck, Lynda.com --- hmmm, guess that's 3... and two aren't really tools.

JS

I definitely rely on omni focus for damn near everything

It's still just a long list of scraped code. How about some analytics? I know, I know... I'm greedy. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, they tell me. :)

Wow. But how? If the answers default to the featured (top) part of your blog - and I got here from your twitter bio link - this is really only applicable for single-use tests/queries - not direct dialogue.