PRICE: 10$

Devices: iPhone, iPod Touch , iPad

To Do is a great application for you productivity users out there who really want a GTD (Getting Things Done ) type system integrated into a To Do App. Appigos really made one of the best apps in the market for making a simple to-do list while having a whole set of extras and additional features to make it worth the 10$. Making projects, check lists , normal to do’s are all available in the app while maintaining a great simple to use touch-interface . You can quick to-do’s or more featured packed ones with options like due dates , repeated tasks (monthly bills  etc) and many other options like call a contact , email a contact , or visit a website. The application also has the ability to sync with other services like remember the milk and sync across other multiple applications it also has the option to send alerts not only to the phone when something is due but also send emails to an account to warn you of a due or overdue item. To really organize your life and common tasks with the iPhone appigo’s to do app , it really provides you with the tools to do it .

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Tech-World App Rating: 4.5 / 5

(CREDIT: Apple)

APPLICATIONS:

Evernote- The mobile version of the online note taking tool evernote allows you to sync notes between your phone and online account documenting everything either with text , photos , or even recordings off your iphone mic. It makes it even easier with text recognition to find the note you need when you need it.

Site- http://www.evernote.com

PRICE : FREE

DropBox- Another great ported tool to the iphone app store that allows you to access your online dropbox account to sync files and access stuff you’d normally store on the iphone for example videos or audio can be stored online rather then taking space on your iphone/touch & stream it over using dropbox.

Site- http://www.dropbox.com

PRICE: FREE

Awesome Note- One of the best note taking tool out in the application store that trumps features of the regular note app and adds categories/folders and allows for post of quick memos , to do lists etc. All stored in a great interface easy to manage your way around.

PRICE: 3.99$

Read it Later- The online firefox extension/online tool for marking websites or blog posts that you’ve either yet to read or wanted to save for later app has been ported onto the iphone so that you can easily look at stories that you haven’t had time to read before and fly through them in your down time with its built in browser.

Site: http://www.readitlaterlist.com

Price:FREE

Yammer- Based off the online business social network for “What are you working on” yammer is a twitter type network for you and your online co-workers it has a nice clean interface and even has push notifications etc when someone is contacting you very nice for a small group project or collaboration tool.

Site: http://www.yammer.com

PRICE:FREE

News Stand- One of the best packed RSS readers in the app store featuring a great interface for reading them , even a newspaper type look for exploring the feeds and has support for sync with google reader and many other features included in the app.

PRICE: 4.99 $

Lastly I want to end with a big tip, on my phone i have a seperate page specifically for websites  some people forget that you can bookmark the sites icons to your home screen & I find it a great way to access the sites quickly for example I have “ My school online-gradebook , Duncsweb, Adrianstech   and many more sites there for quick access.

Check out theses apps and play around with them most of them come in handy and can be put to great use and some even integrate well with other apps or have support for sync with popular services like Google Reader , docs etc if you need to port over anything. Enjoy the apps if you have some recommendations of your own feel free to post below.

-Adrian Cauguiran (Kidguru)

“The Art of Stress Free Productivity”

By David Allen

I’ve been an audible member for quite awhile now, audible.com is a library of audio  books and full of different categories and authors, David Allen was a reccomended author to me and I listened to his popular book on GTD  the ” Getting Things Done” book on how to stay organized, the art of organzing and how to be more productive in life etc.

I’ve finished the book recently and moved on to his second book part of GTD called ” Making Things Work”.

Gettings things done is a great motivational book into getting you to start adapting the system, its full of tips and includes a

PDF file of images of charts etc. The books focus is to get you into the system and even though it sounds simple how to get things done, tips like task lists, the 43 folder system, to-do lists and many other methods that really go a long way and have great little stories with each lesson . More importantly the book shows you how to be more productive in life yet not be stressful and take things one at a time and not be worried about stuff you haven’t done etc.

David Allen’s excert on the site of audible states , the book teaches you :

Whether it be Outlook, Thunderbird, Eudora or just plain Gmail.com. With GTD (Getting Things Done) and productivity tips and approach being one of my 2009 resolution’s I thought I’d share some tips on Organizing and cleaning your E-mail Inbox.

E-MAIL!

First and foremost , set a day or some time either after reading this post or now to just look at your inbox gmail, hotmail, yahoo whatever and just plain old CLEAN IT OUT!

Start off by deleting junk and then go into your back pages to delete the emails you never check anymore also make sure you don’t delete anything important that you needed from past e-mails  I.e-

Software Keys, Product Recipts etc.

After you got the majority of your e-mail cleaned out look into organizing the remaining so it dosen’t pile up again.

LABELING- Gmail along with other email providers or even built in email integrators such as Thunderbird have labeling for certain categories or you can just make your own.

Examples of mine are:

Software/Product Receipts/Keys

Tech-World Applications

SPONSORS/PR  EMAILS

and so on.

So just sort out for whats relevant for you.

EMAIL PROVIDERS AND PROGRAMS

If you have multiple emails for multiple things like personal , spam etc that works out great to organize but checking them all is a pain, that’s were integrating them all in one works out.

Here you have 2 solutions-

Using A application like Thunderbird or Outlook -To integrate all your email accounts

MY VIDEO ON SETTING UP THUNDERBIRD=  http://wiurl.com/vrba/

Your Other option is FORWARDING- forward simply works by you get an email at for example

test1@gmail.com that email then sends a copy or forwards it to another email like test2@gmail.com

both work great while using labels etc.

KEEPING IT CLEAN

Manage your time when checking your mail set appropiate time for your client to update with messages so it dosen’t distract you. Delete emails that you know are spam or you just don’t need anymore otherwise they PILE UP TRUST ME.

Cycle Process

You have to stick with your new tips and tools by managing each every time you either set lables, clean out your inbox etc. Doing it once won’t help you have to STICK WITH IT!

Hope this helps get your Inbox under control check out these great sites for more tips

www.43folders.com

KIDGURU

Dual Monitors

Key WPM

etc….

www.adrianstech.com

adrianstech@gmail.com