Productivity Apps

Invy for iPhone review: an easy way to plan a meet-up

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, May 11, 2012 a 10:23 pm

Planning events and get-togethers is never a fun task because it's difficult to find a date and time that works for everyone. Invy removes this stress by doing the hard work for you. All you have to do is create the event with several possible dates and invite your friends. Once everyone responds, choose the date that works for most people.

HQ: To Do lets you quickly create simple, stylish task lists for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012 a 2:28 pm

What it lacks in depth or features, HQ: To Do makes up for in speed, style, and simplicity. For those interested in getting things done, it's a good place to start.

HQ: To Do for iPhone is for those who need more than Apple's built-in Reminders app, but not anything as complex or costly as some of the full on GTD (Getting Things Done) or power-user productivity apps available in the App Store. Part of the new generation of big, bold, user experiences, HQ: To Do does a good job of making sure most of what you need is always right under-thumb, and available, with a couple taps or swipes. And it looks great doing it.

Pad & Quill brings stylish notes to your iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Feb 1, 2012 a 8:40 pm

Pad & Quill, the makers of The Little Black Book have an iPhone and iPad notes app whose design was inspired by their cases. Your notes will be neatly organized in classic notebooks and stored on a wooden shelf with stylish papers, fonts, and colors waiting to be read.

Vote now for productivity app of the year [TiPb Awards]

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Dec 22, 2011 a 9:54 pm

Apple finally (yes, finally, deal with it) released the iWork apps for iPhone, namely Keynote, Numbers, and Pages. Agenda Calendar brought elegance to our appointments.

Noteshelf made our iPads useful in planning sessions. Elements made Dropbox note-taking sing.

[Orchestra To-Do] (http://www.imore.com/tag/orchestra-to-do) packed out tasks with functionality. Due made reminders quick and powerful.

Instapaper put everything we wanted to read in our pockets, but better. Screens took iOS back to our Macs.

A ton of very different apps to be sure, but all of them helped us get stuff done, and it's your job to pick the very best one.

Vote up top and tell us why you voted they way you did in the comments! These are your awards, so get to it!

App Giveaway: PDF Quick Sign for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 a 12:42 pm

PDF Quick Sign is an iPad app for signing PDF documents. You can also fill out forms, split long PDFs into multiple files, and sync with DropBox.

Microsoft OneNote now available for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Dec 12, 2011 a 6:44 pm

Microsoft has released an iPad version of their note-taking application OneNote. Now you can capture all your thoughts and to-tos on the go and keep them in sync with OneNote on your desktop.

Capture Siri-created reminders with OmniFocus for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Nov 18, 2011 a 8:45 pm

The popular productivity app Omnifocus has been updated wit the ability to capture reminders created with Siri. When the app is launched, it will grab the tasks in your Reminders app and add them to your OmniFocus inbox. Location-based reminders have also been improved with this update.

App Giveaway: ReaddleDocs for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 a 10:05 am

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ReadleDocs, the popular document editor for iPad, has been updated to 3.0 and includes many improvements such as in-document search, a 'Recents' section, completely redesigned UI, ability to view .odt files, and more.

App Giveaway: TouchBase Calendar for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 a 9:42 am

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TouchBase Calendar is a 1-Touch SMS, Calling & Maps for your iPhone Calendar. It syncs with the built-in Calendar, so you can continue to use it has your main calendar. What TouchBase does, is make it easy to send a text to the person you're meeting, or get directions to where you're going, or push back your meeting by 15 minutes - with one touch.

I've played around with TouchBase Calendar a bit and it's pretty cool. I tend to always be running late to where ever I'm going, so being able to quickly send a text to the person I'm supposed to be meeting with is really nice.

Apple updates Pages, Numbers, and Keynote with iCloud support

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 a 7:38 pm

One of the announced features of iCloud is the ability to keep all your files from Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps up to date. The update to those apps that bring this support is now available.

I am particularly excited about using Numbers with iCloud. I use Numbers on my iPad to record my students' grades, but sometimes I forget to bring my iPad to class. It never fails that those are the days that a student notices that I made a mistake and needs a grade changed. Before iCloud, I would make a note in my notes app and make the change later. Now, I'll just open the spreadsheet with Numbers on my iPhone, make the change, and it will be reflected on the spreadsheet on my iPad. Win.