5 Apps That Make Life Easier For Busy People
When your calendar looks like a game of tetris, with blocks of time stacked on top of and over one another, you are a certified busy person.
Like any busy person, you probably have a patented, personalized way of dealing with your own brand of business. It could mean muting your microphone on the morning’s conference call so you can grind coffee while you catch up on work. It could mean keeping a well organized to-do list and following it religiously. Whatever your particular brand of time management is, you know how essential your personal time is first-hand. So, we’d like to introduce you to some of our favorite apps that can help give you back a little bit of extra time so you can focus on the things that matter most.
Focus Keeper
When you’re working on a major project and see a notification from your email, project management or team communication platform slide across your screen, the temptation to respond right away is overwhelming.When you need to buckle down and just work on one thing, Focus Keeper can help. It’s an app based on the Pomodoro method of setting a 45 minute timer to commit to one project and to focus deeply.
1Password
If you’re the type that doesn’t have trouble remembering all your passwords, then you may need to rethink your approach to cybersecurity. It might mean you’re using the same one or two passwords for all sorts of different online services. And, no, you’re not fooling anyone changing your go to password from Password123 to Password124. 1Password gives you the ability to securely save and generate passwords, strong passwords at that, which helps reduce your risk of being hacked, and saves a tremendous amount of time in trying to reset or remember passwords when logging in.
Hello Alfred
Using the Hello Alfred app is like having a personal sidekick that’s solely focused on elevating your life and making it easier. So, when you’ve got a long day at work, and a to-do list that’s even longer, you can rely on personalized, tailored assistance from an Alfred home manager and the app’s uniquely curated marketplace.
Your dedicated Alfred learns your preferences when it comes to grocery shopping, home cleaning, and various errands that help to balance work, social and home life so you have more time for you.
Dropbox
On any given day your workplace might be a coffee shop, an airport lounge, or a conference room on the other side of the country. Wherever you’re working, odds are you will still need your files. If you’re storing them on an external hard drive or thumb drive, you’re tethered to that device. You can’t access what you need without it.
Using Dropbox, you can upload key files and assets to the cloud so you can access them anywhere and work everywhere. Dropbox makes file storage secure and sharing easy across desktop and mobile apps.
Evernote
Good luck finding the Google Doc you started three months ago. It’s buried under all the decks, presentations, and meeting notes you’ve taken since.
Evernote makes it easy to log key notes, media, and even voice memos and keep track of them as you go about your day. The app works across desktop and mobile platforms, so you can access the information you need from wherever you are.
We hope that just a few of these apps can give you an extra few moments just for you. Now, we’ll let you get back to your (busy) day.