Technology that powers our daily work life has evolved to facilitate diverse task requirements, processes and preferences. Numerous productivity apps such as calendars, to-do lists, and reminders are passé. Adopt some of these smart, interactive and feature rich apps to completely transform the way you function, collaborate with your coworkers, or organize your tasks.
Flock: An enterprise messaging and collaboration app that helps simplifying communication and boosting organizational productivity. Packed with incredibly powerful features and a slick, easy to use interface, Flock is the ideal tool for organizations looking to move to a real-time communication model. Flock takes all your most used apps like Trello, Mailchimp, and allows you to integrate them into a single platform to make you more efficient with your organizational tasks.
Evernote: From short lists to lengthy research, no matter what form your writing takes, Evernote keeps the users focused on moving those ideas from inspiration to completion. Easily gather everything that matters. Clip web articles, capture handwritten notes, and snap photos to keep the physical and digital details of your projects with you at all times.
Trello: Communicate, upload files, add due dates, and view the progress of anything, all within a Trello board. The user can see everything about their project just by glancing at the board, and it all updates in real-time. There’s nothing to set up and everyone gets it instantly. Drag and drop interface, color coding, deadlines (with reminders as the deadline approaches), ability to delegate/add users to a workspace, checklists with progress bars for task lists, ability to attach files all of that on one platform.
Workflow: Workflows connect apps and actions together to automate things you do on your device. To build a workflow, just drag and drop together a series of actions. Workflow includes actions that utilize the content on your device and interact with your favorite apps. For example, you can call an Uber in advance of your next calendar event or create a button to give your mom a quick call.
Dropbox: Save files on the computer, and allows access to the user through their phones from the road. Everything the user keeps in Dropbox is synced automatically to all their devices. Edit a presentation with teammates without emailing files back and forth. When the user edits the file in a shared folder, everyone gets the update automatically.
Last Pass: Last Pass is password vault for strong password generator for all platforms in a single mobile app. Users can sync their password vaults, and then have the LastPass browser automatically fill in forms and login details when surfing the Web and accessing sites, either through the in-app browser, Safari or Chrome.
Inshorts: This news app has a card style approach where the app offers news stories of around the world in just 60 words. This gives a quick insight into to the news to the busy professionals at work. The app allows quick browsing through the personalized news feed, for a more visual approach.
Sunrise: Sunrise is a free calendar app that combines neat visual design and powerful calendar features to allow the user to easily organize their time. Sunrise syncs with the existing Google Calendar, iCloud and Exchange calendars, with background syncing, quick event entry, reminders, time zone support, location tagging and more. The app blocks time slots in the calendar and notifies the user about the events when required.
