Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Get It Together: Seven Apps and Services to Organize Your Life

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In an increasingly complex world should think faster, do more and have less than ever. In most professions, multitasking is a necessity, then the ability to manage time and tasks effectively without a doubt the most important skill for any employee can start work, and modern, which is only during the work week. After hours and on weekends (if you're lucky to have them), keep track of family events, friends and personal projects can be sufficient for all those who have the greatest minds of his knees. Fortunately, there are a lot of technology in place to help you make the transition from being an idiot with no life of a champion planning of the organization. First, we have compiled a list of some of our favorite applications of the organization. Regardless of whether they are Web-based, free or bound to your PC, they all have one thing in common: they help you organize this herd of cats is called a life

Evernote

When it comes to taking notes and save all your ducks in a row, it is very difficult to overcome Evernote. On the low, low price of absolutely free, Evernote can be downloaded for most platforms including Windows, OS X, IOS, WebOS (sigh), Android and Blackberry operating system is QNX Playbook. Otherwise, your Evernote account can also be accessed via any modern browser.

Evernote makes it easy to make, amend and revise the written notes, lists, voice, video and notes on the fly. If your workflow for monitoring online content, Evernote has your back, with a Web extension cuts compatible with major web browsers. Click on the icon in your browser bar Evernote, select the content that interests you and then up the arms of Steve Holt in a gesture of victory as the contents of the Web is cut, captured and sent to your Evernote account for consideration at a later date. Moreover, the PC version of Evernote even allow you to share all that the essential content across a number of popular social networks like Twitter, Facebook and email.

addition, advanced users can extend the functionality of the service even more applications using stem Evernote, Evernote that allow integration with mobile applications such as Quickoffice Pro HD for Android and IOS, Skitch , Reeder, and Instapaper. If for some reason all this is still not enough for you, it can also rock a premium account which'll Evernote allows you to transfer up to 1 GB of content a month, download and search files PDF and image recognition fast bad.

To be honest, it is quite difficult for us to find a downside to using this easy to use, highly customizable service.

Google Calendar

When it comes to organizing your life, there is nothing more fundamental than a calendar. For most Westerners, the Gregorian calendar was the way to go since first introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 again. In 2006, Pope Gregorian Google Thurs increased by the introduction of Google Calendar, Web application without time management as we know it today. Subject to periods of Legend Company to test long, Google Calendar beta did not leave until 2009, but once he did, the web application is stable and reliable enough to become the facto programming and implementation of planning tasks for a number of amateur and professional supervisors from around the world.

Google Calendar is free to use, but requires that each user of the Web application to register a Google account. The greatest strengths of Google Calendar is the flexibility of Web applications, the ability to access multiple platforms, and the ease with which it allows users to share calendars and collaborate with other Google account holders. Using Google Calendar, you can share your calendar with important people in your life, compiling lists, create multiple calendars to meet a wide range of programming functions, receive email reminders of upcoming appointments and tasks, and make it accessible from most applications of smart phones and web browsers (as well as customers to select the desktop calendar and Microsoft Outlook).

Until recently, if Google Calendar is a bug, it was that was not available for use offline. Fortunately, the good people of Mountain View is offering users of web applications the ability to access, interact and modify their calendars online via the Google Chrome browser.

Microsoft OneNote

If you prefer a little more free to decide how to organize your life, incredibly versatile Microsoft OneNote applications would be the way forward. Available as a standalone application or as part of Microsoft Office 2010, OneNote allows you to enter important data free-form as you see fit. Users are invited to organize your information into virtual notebook pages, each of which may contain a variety of information, including handwritten notes, pictures, image, audio, HTML, video, links, text written by hand ( if your Windows PC or Tablet PC compatible with it), tables, and information from other Microsoft applications like Outlook, Excel and Word.

There are devices to establish control lists, send text or excerpts from books all the recipients e-mail schedule meetings, and all in the application. OneNote automatically saves the data as it is introduced, making it an excellent choice for a number of independent academic managers or reckless and have the ability to store information local to synchronize with a SharePoint server or via the Microsoft SkyDrive. As with Google Calendar and Evernote, OneNote users are also able to access their data via their smartphones, they are still rocking an IOS phone, Android or Windows.

Undoubtedly, OneNote is a powerful tool, but it has a bit of crime. First of all, talking about the price: In one application will cost you over $ 100. As part of Microsoft Office? Well, not in how it can be costly crazy. With so many free alternatives out there, it is hard to justify forking over that kind of money. Second, and perhaps especially, for individuals who seek to organize their lives, everything is kind of OneNote can become more a nuisance than a real help, because even with powerful search capabilities, all laptops freely pages and quickly spiral out of control.

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