You’ll see from the title of
today’s blog, that the intention was to write about the best apps for improving
your productivity.
Unfortunately, not everything
went to plan…
We picked an office guinea pig to
try each of these apps out, and whilst things started off well, it would be
incorrect to suggest that productivity for today was increased for all.
Streamlining your phone
The first apps we played with were
Opera Max, and CleanMaster, both available for free on iOS and Android.
Opera Max is designed to manage
your data. It compresses videos, images, and other media to save your mobile
data usage, and to speed up mobile browsing. It also self-pauses when your WiFi
is turned on. It’s relatively useful if you regularly find yourself paying for
data at the end of the month, but if you have a good mobile phone plan, like
those on offer here at Fivebars Mobile,
you probably have more than enough data already.
CleanMaster installs a ‘1 Tap
Boost’ button onto your home screen, so that you can perform regular ‘sweeps’
of junk that slows down your phone’s performance. Our guinea pig for this app
says:
“I decided to really test this out, so
before installing it, I trawled through my phone, deleting every cache, every
extraneous file. Once installed CM managed to clear another 1.3GB of ‘junk’ – I’m
sold!”
Self-motivation
An app that was recommended to us
recently was Carrot – which bills itself as a to-do list with a personality.
Sadly it is only currently available on iOS, but is fairly priced at £2.29.
The idea behind Carrot is that
she already doesn't like you. If you tick off the tasks in your to-do list, you
can appease your mini-robot master, but if you fail, Carrot Will Not Be Happy.
It’s definitely fun, but whether you get more done than “Task one: write to-do
list. Task two: check off task one” just to raise your level, remains to be
seen.
Social media
As anybody who uses social media for
their business knows, you can easily spend hours on Facebook and Twitter trying
to reach everyone. This is where apps like Fenix,
and IF come in handy.
Fenix is reasonably priced at
£3.69, on Android, and is one of the most consistently well-reviewed
third-party Twitter clients available. It allows you to customise how you view
your Twitter account, and lets you manage multiple accounts. Our guinea pig
would definitely recommend this for people who find themselves tweeting a lot
throughout the day.
This brings us to IF. Also known
as IFTTT – if this then that.
We’d love to give you a review of
this amazing connecting app, but despite having installed it nearly three hours
ago, our guinea pig is still playing with it…
The basic premise is that it
allows you to connect different apps, by adding ‘recipes.’ These recipes do
things like automatically making your latest Instagram photo your screen pic, or
sending you an email reminder if you miss a call from your mum. Or, hopefully,
switching your employee’s phone off if they miss more than three meetings in a
row…
No comments:
Post a Comment