MinuteTaker and Meetings Help You Produce Professional iPad Minute Reports
In my free online MakeUseOf Online Meeting Guide where I provided some tips for planning and holding meetings over the Web, I referenced a few minute taking apps as well. While very few of us enjoy taking and producing minutes, Meetings ($3.99) and MinuteTaker ($7.99) not only make it easier to take minutes, but the reports you share will actually encourage meeting participants to read the minute reports. If you use your iPad as a laptop and you have the laborious job of taking minutes at meetings, I couldn't make better app recommendations for the job.
Become a More Organized and Productive Leader With Wrike
Whether you're heading up a single project at work, or you're managing a small company, either role requires extreme organization and planning. This isn't always possible with a traditional scheduler or planner. Enter Wrike, an innovative online project management solution that turns projects into groups of categorized tasks. It manages the tasks that have slipped through the cracks, so that when you do have some extra time, you know exactly where to look to catch up.
4 of the Best Personal Wikis to Keep You Organized
What if there was wiki software designed to help you out on a personal level? You could use it for anything, for example to outline your novel, keep track of home improvement projects, or plan social events. The benefit of a personal wiki is that it has all of the core features you need from a wiki, such as cross-linking pages, without the bells and whistles necessary for collaborative work. Interested? Then keep reading!
2 Handy Tools to Monitor Your Windows Files & Folders
We've all lost a sock or two in the dryer, but how about losing disk space in your Windows folders? It seems like it happens out of nowhere, and before you know it you find yourself at a point where your computer is just growing inside of itself. What if you had the ability to monitor your folders, both in real-time and on demand, to constantly know what was going on within your system? It's completely possible and not difficult at all. Let me introduce you to two tools that can help you do just that.
Free App Swipes Simplifies Your Daily Schedule With Gestures & Tags
I don't know about you, but when it comes to remembering a thousand and one personal notes and work tasks, I'm a mess without some sort of organisational aid. Swipes is another personal organiser that promises to extend a helping hand when it comes to managing your ridiculous schedule. Utilising a series of gestures and a simple, time-saving approach; Swipes offers up an enticing alternative to Apple's in-built Reminders app in more ways than one.
Create A Private Company Social Network With Bitrix24 [HTC One Giveaway]
As technology continues to advance at such a rapid pace, the methods of business management and communication advance alongside it. The traditional office environment doesn't work well when most, or all, employees are at home. So what do you use then? The answer is Bitrix24. We're giving away 10 Startup accounts, which will you to add up to 12 users to your account and costs $1200/year -- but the lucky winners will get to use Bitrix24 for free! We're also giving away a 64 GB HTC One so you'll be able to use Bitrix24's Android app on the go.
How to Stay Organized With the World’s Simplest To-Do System That Works - Todo.txt
Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve covered plenty of to-do systems in the past. But if you’re like me, to-do systems can sometimes become too much work to maintain and end up costing you in productivity. I tend to procrastinate using my to-do lists because they can become cumbersome over time. I need to do a bunch of actions to add a single item. What if there was a system that eliminated all of that overhead and actually saved you time without skimping on the core features? Well, that system exists: Todo.txt.
Did You Know You Could Customize The Windows Context Menu? Organize It With Right Click Enhancer
Have you ever wondered if there could be more to the Windows context menu? It has a dedicated key on every keyboard, yet are we really using it to it's full potential? Perhaps it's clogged up with a bunch of program entries from software that you don't really use. Now technically, you don't need a program to remove context entries, but if you want to extend your context menu beyond the defaults that Microsoft has limited it at, I recommend taking a look at Right Click Enhancer.
RocketDock + Stacks Docklet: Not Just A Dock, But A Complete Desktop Organization Solution [Windows]
RocketDock has been one of the best choices for a Mac-like dock in Windows for years. That's why it's on our Best Of Windows Software page. In fact, you've probably heard of it. But there's more to it than just being a dock that is easy to use. It's also more customizable, perhaps even more than one of its most popular alternatives, ObjectDock.
ObjectDock: Quickly Customize Your Desktop And Increase Its Functionality [Windows]
By now, you may have already heard of ObjectDock – It’s no stranger to those of us keen on Windows customization. It has actually been around for quite some time, so you might even consider it a veteran of sorts. What is ObjectDock? As the name implies, it’s a dock, which is a program that provides quick access to other programs, folders and widgets right on your desktop.
Split Your Desktop Into Two Using DesktopCoral [Windows]
People usually develop their own systems to keep desktops organized, whether it's building "fences" around areas for certain types of shortcuts, organizing links and shortcuts into subfolders, or a long list of other ideas. Some work pretty well, but others don't. For the most part, all of the usual approaches to desktop organization require constant maintenance and upkeep. If you aren't careful, it'll get away from you again.
Transform Microsoft Outlook Into a GTD Organizer With Jello Dashboard
I am always in search of a better email client. Don't get me wrong, Gmail is great and everything, but there's just something about a desktop email client that feels so much more powerful and functional. We keep trying to come up with new and innovative ways to make Gmail itself act as a desktop email client, but the truth is that there is nothing more powerful and full of features than true desktop email clients like Thunderbird and Outlook.
PDFStacks: Managing, Reading, and Searching Your PDFs Made Easy [Giveaway]
If you have amassed several hundred or thousands of PDF documents like I have, you probably have experienced the challenge of managing and accessing them in various folders on your computer. Since I have gone practically paperless in my day-to-day workflow, an application like PDF Stacks ($39.00) is one I should have started using a long time ago. We're giving away 25 copies of PDF Stacks for both PC and Mac. Find out how you can win one after the review.
Stop Treading Water and Make Progress in Life With the Big Picture
I'm sure many of you have thought about whether you're doing the right things every day, whether you're getting anywhere, and whether you're headed in the right direction. To-Do lists and organizational apps will help you keep all of those daily tasks and projects well-organized, but they don't really help as much with future planning.
TripIt - A Travel Organizer That Makes Remembering Your Travel Plans Easy [iOS]
Traveling is a giant pain in the rear. You have to book all of your flights, hotels, rental cars, dinner reservations, and so on. After you book it, you have to keep track of all the important times and information for the trip. Sure, once you get to your destination and start doing all the fun stuff, it is enjoyable, but the preparation for a trip is usually less than pleasant. Thankfully, we live in the age of smartphones, where applications can help make everything easier.
Download Mover Helps Keep Your Folders Neat & Organized [Windows]
MUO readers who know my articles or know me as a person can testify that two of my favorite things in the world are portable applications and automation. How great would it be if a portable application could automate the process of organizing your folders? Download Mover has been one of my best-kept secrets for a while now, and in this article it's time to shed some light on exactly what it's capable of doing.
Be Creative AND Organized: Color-Code Your Windows Folders
The words "creative" and "organized" are rarely used in the same sentence. Usually it is one or the other. However, often being creative can help you be organized and there are plenty of cases of that all throughout the Internet. One of those cases is right here on MakeUseOf in this very article. Perhaps you may think that coloring a folder is being organized, but combined with other organizational habits, it can change the way you manage your files.
Stay Organized & Remember Everything With Tomboy Notes [Linux]
If the title made you think of Evernote, I don't blame you. It's a great tool which is capable of a lot, plus it syncs with whatever devices it can run on. However, Evernote is still a proprietary tool, and some Linux users may not wish to use it simply because of this reason. It's also possible that they don't want all of their notes stored on a different server, where they don't own their data.
A Beginner's Guide to Setting Up an Ebook Library on iPads
The recently announced iPad mini, along with similar digital tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 make for nearly perfect e-reading devices. From the near paper-like reading to the easy download and archiving of eBooks, there's hardly no reason now not to build an eBook library. As this infographic points out, e-reading is on the rise and it's becoming easier to start an e-library.
Bitrix24 Review and iPhone 5 Giveaway
Today, we'll look at Bitrix24, a cloud service that will allow you to create a social intranet for your company within minutes. Bitrix24 provides the tools to interact with your fellow colleagues, assign and manage tasks, assign tasks, share files, collaborate on projects together, and in doing so, glue the entire company together. We'll be giving away 25 Startup licenses (a exclusive, customised plan), each valued at $1200/year for a total giveaway value of $30,000! Plus, we'll also be giving away a 16GB Slate iPhone 5 to commemorate the launch of their new mobile application. More information about the giveaway after the review.