I’m a total victim of sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich when the going gets tough, life gets busier and there is more and more paperwork, phone calls, emails. The inundation of tasks to accomplish on my list of things to do is enough to drive me bonkers. Thankfully, mankind has created something to help poor suckers like me get organized: smartphones and apps. Here are some great apps that will help you stay productive, effective and alleviate some daily stress at work and in your everyday life.
© Shutterstock (Workplace with tablet) Recording expenses and arranging numbers so you know where all your money goes is a good idea, right? But it can be so difficult especially for spur of the moment spenders. Expensify is an app that can help you organize your finances. Once you pay a bill, take a picture of the receipt for the application and it organizes everything for you into categories. Expensify works as a spending manager and is great for companies that have branches and sellers who spend time on business trips with the company credit card. With the app, employees can scan invoices, receipts and other expense vouchers. The program also generates PDF reports and exports data to Excel, Evernote and Salesforce. This free app is also available for iOS and Windows Phone.
© Expensify GoToMeeting helps save time and money on unnecessary travel to meetings. The app allows video conferencing with up to 25 users, where the meeting organizer or presenter can share documents while ensuring participants are following what is being said. It’s also available for iOS.
© GoToMeeting One of the problems with meetings is monitoring each individual in the days to follow and making sure that tasks discussed are accomplished. The Podio app allows you to organize meetings more productively by organizing activity flow based on what is talked about when all are together in the group huddle. The app can be integrated with GoToMeeting, which makes scheduling meetings and online conferences a breeze. After the meeting, the Podio app lets you share notes, presentations from the meeting and even assign tasks so that everyone involved knows what to do and track the progress of each participant.
© Podio Ever had to open and edit a file without access to a computer? This app will help you. Quickoffice is a free Google application that lets you create and edit documents in Word, spreadsheets in Excel and Powerpoint presentations on your Android phone and tablet. Quickoffice also has access to files on Google Drive, is able to open and view PDF documents and attach files to emails. If this isn't the word document for you, check out our best word and office apps.
© QuickOffice If you've been in meetings with many people, or participated in trade fairs and business conferences, you know the difficulty of storing the many exchanged business cards from these occasions. What’s even more difficult is finding the time to store all of these contacts to your phone. The ScanBizCards uses the phone's camera to scan the cards and allows you to add notes about the contact.
/ © ScanBizCards The application also captures data from each business card and automatically downloads the phonebook to the phone itself. ScanBizCards can be synchronized with services like Gmail, Evernote, LinkedIn and Outlook and is also available for iOS and Windows Phone.
Do you know of any other apps that help you stay productive and effective?
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