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Home Planning Meeting Notes 36 Apps to Boost Your Productivity

36 Apps to Boost Your Productivity

By M+E Staff

  1. RescueTime
  • Purpose: : Time Management
  • Price: Free – $72 per year
  • In a Nutshell: RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus and be more productive
  1. Sweet Process
  • Purpose: Project Management
  • Price: $29 – $99 per month
  • In a Nutshell: Document all those repetitive tasks that eat up your precious time, so you can grow your team and grow your business
  1. If This, Than That
  • Purpose: Device Cohesiveness
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: IFTTT connects your favorite apps, so they work best for you
  1. Wunderlist
  • Purpose: Task Management
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Help you tick off all your personal and professional to-dos.
  1. Basecamp
  • Purpose: Project management
  • Price: Free – $3,000 per year
  • In a Nutshell: Helps to get projects done on time, on budget and on point.
  1. Asana
  • Purpose:  Project Management
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Easy way for teams to track their work and get results through conversations and notifications.
  1. Trello
  • Purpose: Project Management
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Flexible and visual way to organize anything with anyone and see everything about your project in a single glance
  1. Smartsheet
  • Purpose: Spreadsheets + Project Management
  • Price: $10 – $15 per user per month
  • In a Nutshell: Use Smartsheet to coordinate anything and collaborate with others to complete projects and tasks.
  1. Feedly
  • Purpose: Gather Internet Information in Organized Way
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: A single place for all the knowledge you relay on to think, learn and keep ahead.
  1. Sunrise
  • Purpose: Organize Multiple Calendars
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Calendar app that also connects with all your favorite apps to make sure you’re always up to date.
  1. Timeful
  • Purpose: Schedules Tasks For You
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Helps you organize your life by understanding your schedule, habits and needs.
  1. X.ai
  • Purpose: Personal Assistant for Scheduling
  • Price: Undisclosed
  • In a Nutshell: Artificial intelligence powered personal assistant that schedules meetings for our business customers.
  1. EasilyDo
  • Purpose: Pulls Tasks to Accomplish From Emails
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: An award winning assistant that organizes your work and personal life.
  1. Unroll.Me
  • Purpose: Email Organization
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Unsubscribe from unwanted emails, consolidate sales/newsletters/listserv emails into a daily digest called the Rollup.
  1. Buffer
  • Purpose: Social Media
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Share to Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Pinterest and LinkedIn all from one place, on your schedule.
  1. Mobile Day
  • Purpose: Schedule Conference Calls While Travelling
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Join conference calls with one-touch dialing.
  1. Live Minutes
  • Purpose: Type Live Minutes During Conference Calls
  • Price: Free – $39 per month
  • In a Nutshell: Live video conferencing, as well as real-time document and to-do list editing.
  1. Slack
  • Purpose: Reduce Emails Through Real-Time Collaboration
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Brings all your communication together in one place.
  1. Yammer
  • Purpose: Internal Social and Document Sharing
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: An enterprise social network that helps you and your team collaborate openly and stay on top of it all.
  1. Huddle
  • Purpose: Review Documents + Communication
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Provides instant access to your files, notifications, tasks and activity feed.
  1. Redbooth
  • Purpose: Slack + Project Management + Chat
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Team can collaborate on projects, share files and communication with each other, all from one central and searchable workspace.
  1. Box
  • Purpose: Extra Secure Storage
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Securely store, manage and share all your files, photos and documents with 10GB of free cloud storage.
  1. Adobe Acrobat
  • Purpose: PDF Management
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Reliably view, annotate and sign PDFs.
  1. Swype
  • Purpose: Typing
  • Price: $0.99
  • In a Nutshell: Type or Swype to input words faster and easier.
  1. Dragon Dictation
  • Purpose: Speech Recognition
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Allows you to easily speak and instantly see your text or email messages.
  1. Capture
  • Purpose: Capture Whiteboards With an Image
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell:
  1. Livescribe
  • Purpose: Pen & Notebook to Digitize Notes
  • Price:
  • In a Nutshell: Capture, save, see and share all your photos and videos safely and easily.
  1. Glympse
  • Purpose: Shares GPS Location
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Fast, free and simple way to share your location in real time.
  1. Options Away
  • Purpose: Find Flights to Hold for Groups
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Hold your flights for days or weeks while you finalize your travel plans.
  1. Expensify
  • Purpose: Track & Create Expense Reports
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Takes the time, paper and headaches out of your expense reports.
  1. TripIt
  • Purpose: Organize Travel
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Forward your travel confirmation emails and TripIt creates a detailed daily itinerary for every trip.
  1. Dashlane
  • Purpose: Password Management
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Makes it easy to keep track of passwords and personal info that you use across the web.
  1. Key Ring
  • Purpose: Organizes Frequent Shopping Cards
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Never carry loyalty, membership or library cards again!
  1. Shyp
  • Purpose: Shipping On Demand
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Service picks up and packages your items and offers lowest price on every shipment.
  1. Forest
  • Purpose: Tracks Phone Usage
  • Price: $0.99
  • In a Nutshell: Cure phone addiction by “growing trees” while staying focused.
  1. Evernote
  • Purpose: Productivity
  • Price: Free
  • In a Nutshell: Gets you effortlessly organized with notes that sync betwee

Original list compiled by Tara Thomas, The Meeting Pool

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