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Need to print a hard copy? The app lets you print documents straight from your iPad to your airprinter. Need to schedule appointments or events? Want to keep track of important dates such as customer or staff birthdays? The native Calendar app on your iPad can do all that and more. It even integrates with Facebook, so you can check out what your friends are up to.
With just a few taps or swipes, you can view events by day, week, month, or year — and if you want a wider view of your schedule, you can switch to landscape mode.
Insightly was the perfect fit for our needs; price and features. Shoeboxed allows users to snap a picture of receipts. The very best file syncing services also offer options to back up photos and videos from your phone automatically, which Dropbox includes. TripIt keeps me organized while traveling. This can be really helpful for anyone else looking to keep the mileage expenses organized. Use Burner when you need to be in touch but free to disconnect. Just sign up for an account, run the app in your browser, and start growing your email list.
Mail lets you manage all your email accounts from one convenient app, which makes sending, receiving, and replying across mailboxes fast and seamless. Its interface also makes it easy to see and track messages by thread — and if you want to change your view, you can just switch from portrait to landscape mode. With the Mail app, reading and responding to messages from customers, vendors, and fans can be quick and efficient.
The Reminders app enables you to create location- or time-based alerts for things you need to do. You can also set recurring reminders for tasks that need to be completed on a regular basis.
Moreover, the app syncs on all your iDevices — so even if you create a reminder using your iPad, you can still receive alerts on your iPhone. Keeping track of memos and reminders while managing a busy retail store can be a challenge. The Reminders app helps you stay on top of things and prevents you from missing important tasks, memos, or alerts, even on a busy day.
Just sign up for an account, run the app in your browser, and start growing your email list. Downloading email address can be done in seconds, and the app syncs with other email marketing programs like MailChimp and CampaignMonitor. SignUpAnywhere is perfect for collecting emails and generating leads while customers are inside your store or during trade shows, fairs, and other events.
Say sayonara to the clunky old clipboard, and impress customers with this sleek app. It even works without WiFi, so you can carry on with your lead-gen efforts no matter where you are. And since email addresses can be downloaded into a CSV file or synced directly with your email marketing software, the app saves you time and reduces errors in data entry. With Dropbox, you can take all your photos and documents with you, no matter where you are. Need to share important files with your staff, vendors, or customers? The PollDaddy iPad app lets you conduct surveys right from your mobile device.
It works without an Internet connection, so you can take your polls to the streets or your tradeshow booth and collect responses with ease. PollDaddy lets you collect and organize survey responses, so you can quickly act on them and improve your store. Are you using MailChimp to collect email addresses and send out newsletters? Then this app is the perfect complement to your email marketing efforts. It lets you collect email addresses from your iPad, and import them into MailChimp. MailChimp Subscribe works offline, so collecting emails inside your store or during conferences and events can be done without a hitch.
Facebook Pages Manager Marketing. The Facebook Pages Manager for iPad gives you all the tools you need to keep in touch with your fans, no matter where you are. Post updates, respond to comments, reply to private messages, and view Page insights. Sharing is even easier thanks to its integration with iOS. It also allows you to impress customers by giving you the means to quickly respond to comments or concerns.
Spotify puts million of tracks at your fingertips. Play what you want, when you want, and create playlists of your favorites. Spotify also makes discovering new music a breeze, thanks personalized recommendations based on your listening habits. Are you a Vend user? Centrally manage your day-to-day business in Vend and sell more online with the flexibility of WooCommerce. Enjoy a seamless two-way sync of products, inventory, customers, and sales. None are as simple or as easy to use as Zoom, and Zoom's demand on bandwidth is much smaller too.
The quality of videoconferencing it delivers on your phone is amazing. Boasting an entirely remote staff of plus team members, we rely on Zoom for daily meetings, virtual coffee breaks, and company-wide check-ins. It allows us to stay connected from across the globe, and acts as a worthy substitute for face-to-face interactions. It has completely changed the way that I work.
I have face-to-face meetings and share screens with anyone, anywhere--with one person or a group--just by pressing a button on my phone. It's essential for getting work done and I think it's more effective than email. These Apps together allow me and my business to function globally in a very easy way. With clients, employees and partners all around the world I could not do business or make it to all the strategy calls I am part of without them. The Wordclock and Meeting Planner Apps allow you to plan and create meetings across multiple time zones and is easily added to your calendar so you never miss a beat, and Xe.
So, I use two apps in conjunction with each other, and they have both changed the way which I access and consume information. The first of these is called Flipboard, and what I have done is subscribed to all of my favorite websites and blogs which now automatically come into one central news feed.
It's like my own personal newspaper, that has been customized completely for all the topics that I'm interested in and care about. Twice a day, morning and night, I flick through reading only the headlines to find the articles that I want to consume. However, I make a habit not to consume it then and there because I can get buried in an article which may take me five to 10 minutes when I could be doing other more valuable tasks. What I do instead is click on the share button, and then save it to another app I use called Pocket. Pocket then extracts all the information and allows me to consume that information when I'm offline.
So, the next time I'm on a plane, which is at least once a week, I then read all of the articles which I have flagged as important that week. The other feature that Pocket has is to turn the text into speech, effectively turning those articles into Podcasts. This also means that I can read articles hands-free and eyes-free while driving my car to the office or meetings, which is another unproductive time which I can now call productive time.
The Audible app has done a very similar thing for me, making it easy to multitask and read by listening to great books while getting exercise at the same time. It's changed my life, helping me to read at least twice as much as I otherwise would have been able to find time for. I use the Shopify app on a daily basis for our rapidly growing brand, Homesick.
I can immediately jump into any order to solve a customer request, adjust promotional offers or inventory and track multiple revenue streams all from the app. This allows me to be immediately responsive in brand management from anywhere at any hour, and that's become invaluable to our growth. It lets me take notes on any of my devices whether at home, at the office, or on the road. And because notes are automatically saved via the cloud, I can see these notes across all of my devices too which makes staying organized seamless.
As a person who travels a lot and has many different devices, this ability to collect everything in one place allows me to work smarter and maintain work-life balance, without having to worry about forgetting or losing track of important things. The free app offers pretty much all of the core journaling features, but for syncing, multiple photos, and multiple journals, you'll need to subscribe to the Day One Premium service. Diarium is the highest-rated journaling app in the Windows 10 App Store. Compared to other journaling apps on any platform, Diarium stands out for its support for multiple media types in journal entries.
If you'd rather speak than type, you can dictate your thoughts—and the speech recognition is actually accurate, in our tests. You can attach an audio file, an inked drawing, or any other type of file to your entries, as well as multiple photos. Heck, you can even rate your journal entries perhaps most useful as a way to track how happy you are each day. We found the syncing between Windows and Android instant and reliable.
To make journaling even easier, Diarium can automatically pull in feeds from Twitter, Facebook, or Swarm and will remind you once a day at your chosen time to write in the journal. Windows users have fewer journaling apps choices than Mac, iOS, and Android users, but that's not a big deal because the free Glimpses app has you covered with most of the journaling features you'd want—and then some.
You can write in Markdown, export to PDF, drag and drop images into your entries, password protect your journal, tag entries, view entries from a timeline or calendar view, and sync across Windows devices via Dropbox. Glimpses offers a few unique features we didn't see in other journaling apps. One is the retro mode: Turn it on, and you can write a journal entry in a typewriter font along with clickety-clack sounds as you type. There's a dark mode as well, which is great for journaling at night, and a distraction-free writing mode that focuses on just your words. You can also create a shareable link to a journal entry, so your family, friends, and fans can catch up on what you've been up to outside of Facebook.
One thing to note is that when you add an image to a journal entry in Glimpses, it adds it as a photo behind the journal heading, much like if this were a blog post. That's different than the inline photos in most journaling apps. Also, Glimpses doesn't have built-in reminders, but for a completely free, modern journaling app that works with Windows 7 and above, we're not complaining. Journey is the one journaling app we found that works across pretty much any device.
And it does it well, with features that rival those of our other top journaling app picks—support for up to 4 images or video, syncing to Google Drive, exporting to multiple formats, auto location and weather, password protection, and even importing Day One entries. Journey is probably the best alternative to Day One, with a similar streamlined interface, as well as a dark mode.
If you'd rather not pay a monthly subscription for the premium version of Day One, you could buy a one-time license for Journey instead. Journey doesn't, however, have reminders in the desktop apps, so that might be a consideration if you want those prompts to write.
Writing a journal entry in Penzu is much like writing a blog post in WordPress or Blogger: So why not just use Word, WordPress, or a note-taking app? For one thing, Penzu keeps your entries together in one journal online, as opposed to several different files.
Custom email reminders help you remember to record your journal entry. And Penzu can uniquely send you reminders of what you've written in the past, so you can reminisce about the good old days. If you're on the Pro plan, Penzu can also safeguard your entries with military strength encryption, send multiple reminders, and customize each journal with distinct covers, backgrounds, and fonts. If you want to keep a journal the same way you might a personal blog, but keep it private, Penzu is an excellent option. You'll need to spring for the paid plan, though, to get core digital journaling features such as tagging.
Once a day, at a time of your choosing, Dabble. You can add a photo, tag entries with hashtags, add links to songs in Spotify to play them on your Dabble. If you live in your inbox and need that nudge to keep a journal, emailing your memories might be the best option. However, you'll need a Dabble. With the free plan, email prompts are only sent every other Sunday; the Pro plan lets you change the frequency and days that emails are sent once a day , attach one photo to the entry, edit previous entries, and search past entries.