Comments on: Top 5 iPhone Applications for Productivity

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:06:30 +0000

I couldn’t live without AwesomeNote – organizes all of your lists and has reminders & due dates.

By: Adam Chavez

Adam Chavez — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:54:00 +0000

I definitely agree with you that Evernote is a great app for note-taking and can potentially save you time with its awesome search feature — especially when you take advantage of its web+desktop+mobile applications.

I thought of a few more apps that I like — some of which came out after this post. Here’s my list: http://blog.snappsoftware.com/iphone-application-developers/5-iphone-apps-that-will-make-you-more-productive/

Let me know what you think, thanks!

By: Aamy

Aamy — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:42:47 +0000

Hi there, you all should surely try out – Appigo Todo 2.0, its a wonderful iphone GTD application. I tried Omnifocus and was not happy with in lot of ways. Would be great to hear from you about Appigo Todo.

Affly Aamy

By: cloudrider

cloudrider — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:18:57 +0000

@ Andrew

Thanks for the list! I’ll try out iBlueSky and Zenbe.

I would put Calendar, OmniFocus on my list as well. I’ve recently put Evernote up there after they came out with a recent release to mark an item as “Favorite”, which makes the note accessible offline.

Three other apps are:
1) Notes2Self – this is my Ubiquitous Capture Tool. It has the best design of all the voice recorders on the Appstore. It has a cool feature of putting the iphone to your ear, and it will start recording, and putting the phone down to stop recording.
2) Camera – My visual Ubiquitous Capture Tool. I take pictures of restaurants I want to go to, or books or DVDs I want to buy, and type them into my “system” when I get home.
3) FileMagnet – to upload your documents to. It’s a nice app overall. Good design.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:37:45 +0000

Hi there,
I have been looking for an iPhone app for ages that will replicate the functions of the Palm Pilot task application. All I want is a Get-Things-Done app that is OFF-LINE, and I don’t want to have to pay subscription fees to synch with my desktop, either (as with Mobileme).

Any ideas? I was reading with interest your reviews on the site, but they seem to feature online apps. Please advise!

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:28:16 +0000

@Adam: Hi Adam, There have not been any apps like this yet as up to now the applications cannot run background processes so the app only works whilst it is running on the phone. This is scheduled for release by Apple pretty soon and when it does, the iPhone will become an even better tool for productivity! Thanks for the comment,

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:25:52 +0000

Is there a GTD application out there that has an alarm notification when something is due? Haven’t found anything yet. Thank you for all your thoughts very interesting.

By: Louis Franco

Louis Franco — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:57:28 +0000

I use Things on my iPhone, and I love it. However, there was always something missing for me in GTD apps — recurring events without an exact time. There are some things that I want to do consistently, but don’t want them cluttering my Calendar. Things like calling my Mom once a week (any time) or going to the gym every 2 to 3 days.

I created a GTD Companion app called Habits to meet this need for myself (http://www.loufranco.com/habits). It’s meant to be used with Things or OmniFocus (or any other to-do mananger), not instead. I’m finding it incredibly useful for these kinds of “sort-of” recurring tasks.

By: estravizhausen

estravizhausen — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:23:32 +0000

Really interesting your comments. Actually I’m a bit in a trial mode with some productivity and note-taking programs. Some of them were very simple and them I discovered reQall, with a pretty cool interface. It allows you to create to-do lists, shopping lists and voice notes. I wasn’t quite convinced about Zenbe despite its good syncing. But then I gave a 2nd chance to Easytask, which is also free and syncs quite well. I think it suites my needs: you can make use of contexts, projects and projects of projects, etc. The bad side: it is not very stable sometimes… Evernote for fast voice comments and photos with quick notes. Air sharing as s.o. has said before… And finally, the native calendar.
Could anybody explain his/her experience with Things (and btw with Omnifocus)? Thank you in advance.

By: Andrew Mason

Andrew Mason — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:57:48 +0000

@David Pierce

Thanks for your comment, and keep up the good work with your blog.

Cheers

Andrew..