Apps for running your life more efficiently, healthily, meditatively, actively – you name it – are becoming the most popular types of tech downloads as we move into 2015. And in this organised month of resolutions and forward-planning, what better time than now to take a look at what’s on offer out there? A productivity app for getting your priorities in order and all your useful documents in one place might be just what you need at work as much as at home. Here are our top 3, and they’re all free:
- 1. Evernote: FREE
The household name in productivity apps, Evernote can be used for tasks as simple as notetaking and recording verbal memos, setting reminders and the like, or can be personalised for more involved tasks like saving web pages and other sorts of scrapbooking for home and work projects. One user raves that, ‘I use it for a number of quite different tasks; from keeping ideas for books in order to creating lesson plans for my job as a teacher. It is so intuitive, yet powerful.’
- 2. 30/30: FREE
Colour-coders and those with a penchant for a bit of highlighter pen should plump for 30/30, the app that will ‘help you get stuff done.’ This free app offers all manner of lists, timetabling and timing features in a stylish, attractive interface that’s also very easy to operate. 30/30 uses a gesture-based interface which is less confusing than it sounds: it operates without the use of touch screen buttons, but invites the user to either double tap, swipe or pinch the screen in order to navigate through the app and your tasks. Sounds trickier than it is.
- 3. Any.Do: FREE
Top features available with this very popular app (10 million users and counting) are speech recognition, the ability to use the app on your computer as well as your iPad or iPhone, time and location reminders, the option to create as many folders as you like for storing data files, to-do lists you can strike off as tasks are completed, and of course a calendar.
Which apps do you recommend to your fellow Practice Managers, and what’s not worth the memory storage, in your opinion? Drop us a comment below!
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