Category Archives: Productivity

Finish – Stop Procrastinating and Finish Your Tasks

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Total Score:  29.5

Finish is a procrastinator’s dream – well, if your dream is to finish things.  This app allows you to see your short-term, mid-term and long-term tasks at a glance.  This app helps you stay focused on what you committed to work on during a certain time and still keeps what’s coming up visible.  You might gather from my app reviews that I have a lot of tasks and I struggle to keep up with them.  That would be completely accurate. I have tried a lot of productivity, to-do type apps and now, Finish is my go to app.

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Pixies – Fun With Photos

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Total Score:  29

One of the joys of using an iPhone is the ability to take and manipulate photos.  The name of this app, Pixies – Fun with Photos really tells you all you need to know.  The only other thing you need to know is that it’s so easy.  This is one of those apps that just makes you want to go through your camera roll, add to your photos and share them.  Continue reading →

Taskboard – Simple Lists and Visual Worklow

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Total Score:  29.5

I have a lot of tasks on my plate.  I continue to search for a simple way to keep track of them.  About a year ago someone told me to write my tasks on index cards and prioritize them by color.  I liked the method, but I couldn’t really keep it up because I needed to see all the tasks at once.  This app, Taskboard – Simple Lists and Visual Workflow is just what I needed.  I love the ability to see an overview of what is outstanding and the ease of moving the tasks around.  I think you will too.     Continue reading →

Organize with iPlan myTime

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Total Score:  27

Having a good planning tool is a critical part of staying organized.  You should look at iPlan myTime and see if it fits your needs.  You can add projects, then tasks under projects, see them in calendar view and in a timeline view.   You can also share an image of the timeline.  Perhaps the most important to me, is cloud support. Continue reading →

Do it All with Any.DO

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Total Score:  29.5

I test a lot of productivity apps because I crave organization.  I am not organized by nature, so I need a lot of help.  I want options to order reminders by date, by category, prioritize some – but not others, get reminders, add, and move them around easily.  Any.DO does all those things, and a few more.   Continue reading →

Listen on the Go with the Lisgo Text to Voice Reader for Web News

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Total Score:  29.5

There is nothing I enjoy more than having someone read to me.  I love audio books and now can enjoy a similar experience with articles I’ve selected from the internet or news aggregators like Zite or Flipboard.  You get all of that with Lisgo Text to Speech Voice Reader for Web News. Continue reading →

30/30 App Helps You Make the Most of Your Time

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Total Score: 29.5

Most people struggle with time management.  I would certainly include myself in that group.   I have multiple projects and tasks that need to be accomplished and I sometimes spend too much time on one task and fail to leave enough for the next.  They are equally important, but I do not devote the appropriate resources to each.  That problem may just be at an end.  With the 30/30 app, you can determine how much time you plan to spend on each task and receive a reminder when it is time to switch.  I can see that this would also help you understand how much time each task takes.  This app is so much more than a timer. Continue reading →

Remember The Milk and a Whole Lot More

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Total Score: 28

I have used a number of the reminder type apps and up until now haven’t found one that meets all of my needs. This app may be the one I have been searching for.  I’ll go into all the details below, but Remember the Milk has a couple of things that I like.  I know it may be shallow, but I like my reminder app to be attractive – and this one is.  You can easily organize your tasks by day, week month and not just one list.   I suppose it’s not important, but I love the icon! Continue reading →

UPDATE – This App Has Been Removed from the App Store – Life Gets Easier with the Bluetooth OnOff. App

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Total Score:  28.5

   UPDATE:  I’ve been using this app for a week now and love it.  Sadly, it is no longer available on the iTunes store. The technical news folks reported that it was removed April 28.  Don’t be fooled by another app, Bluetooth Activate with the same icon.  Let’s hope Apple allows this one to come back.  Note:  I checked on July 1, and this app is still not available.    Continue reading →

SmartPlans – Multi Planner, Multi-Tasking Just Got Easier

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Total Score:  28

I don’t know about you, but I have multiple projects going on all the time.  Reminder apps do not quite meet my needs.  I need something a little robust so that I can manage my time more efficiently.  Smart Plans – Multi Planner fills that need.    I can create a simple task list and create a number of multi-month projects.    This is not an app designed to be shared with a team, this is an app for one person’s use to manage their time and tasks.  Continue reading →

iReminder – To Do and Reminder w/Snooze and Alert – Could This Be the Perfect Fit?

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Total Score:  28

I am somewhat of a to-do list junkie.   It’s not that I must have all of them.  It’s that I have had trouble finding just the right one.  I know this comes down to very personal tastes, but iReminder seems to have all the things I am looking for.  It’s easy to enter, I can put in dates and times and it comes up on my iPhone reminder screen.  For me it has to be functional first, but it also needs to be colorful and intuitive.  This app is a perfect fit for me. Continue reading →

USB Disk for iPad – Document Transfers Made Easy

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Total Score:  28.5

I went shopping on iTunes for a simple document transfer app. There are a lot of good ones that make use of a cloud, but I wanted one that was between my iPad and me.  USB Disk for iPad and USB Disk Pro for iPad were just what I needed.   Using iTunes, you can easily transfer files from your drives to the app.  Once the files are in the app, you can create folders, move them from one folder to the next and view the files.  It is a handy way to store documents you use regularly. Continue reading →

Clear Your Mind and Clear Your Task List with the Clear App

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Total Score:  29.5

  I am constantly searching for a great to-do list app.  I have tried and used a number of them.  All of them work if I put in the effort to keep them up.  So, why didn’t I stay with them?  I think it’s because I haven’t found one that easily lets me move tasks around, create multiple lists, and frankly is just great looking.  Clear has it all. I have been using it for both my personal and work life for about a week now and have been very pleased.  I have already recommended it to my friends – which to me is the best review I can give. Continue reading →

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words – Now it’s Easy with Skitch for iPad

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Total Score:  28.5

 Have you ever wanted to capture a website and add a big arrow that says, “Click here” when you tried to explain something?   Or, perhaps, thought of a funny caption to add to a photo?   Skitch offers you that and much more.  You can add arrows, circles, squares, lines, crop an image, add text or just write on it.  I fell in love with this app at the creation of my first, well, I guess we call them skitches. Continue reading →

Take Control of Your Life with Schedule Planner Pro

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Total Score:  27

I have been searching for an app that would help me manage my work and personal tasks all in one easy-to-use format. Schedule Planner Pro does just that.  I always have my iPhone with me, so looking for an app to keep track of tasks and appointments, just makes sense.    Through color-coding, you can easily tell at a glance what is in store for you today. Continue reading →

Penultimate – Best in Class iPad Handwriting App

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Total Score:  29

I have been looking for an app that would allow me to take notes in meetings, annotate photos and generally help me stay organized.  I have tested a couple of apps that met that need, but until now, none that inspired me like Penultimate.   I started out my test enjoying the features offered – ink colors, moving between pages, cutting, erasing and importing photos.  From that point, I decided I needed to create a book of my own.  First I documented my New Year’s resolutions (if you write them down you are more likely to achieve them), then I decided I needed a fitness journal, and then I decided I wanted to create a life journal and I haven’t even gotten to the work uses yet!  I think this app will exceed your expectations and dare I say it, improve your life! Continue reading →

Use Your Handwriting Gold – Easy and Fun List Making

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Total Score:  29

The Use Your Handwriting app is one of my favorites.  While I am a decent typist on the tiny iPhone keyboard, using my own handwriting is a treat.   I create grocery lists, lists of DVDs I want to watch, gift lists and to do lists.   Whenever someone asks me why I like my iPhone, this app is one of the first that I demo.  It never fails to get a “Wow.”  The icon for the iPad version is identical. Continue reading →