I’m a productivity fanatic. I enjoy wasting my life away reading and researching ways to make my life more efficient. Productivity was the first category of apps I browsed into when the iPad apps became available in the app store.
These are the apps I highly recommend you try out first if you’re a productivity pornstar too.
Split Browser $1.99 (iTunes link)
Two pages web experience, with two independent toolbars, two websites at
the same time, with a division bar you can resize your pages, portrait or landscape mode, it’s up to you. This app offers you an ultimate web experience, allows you to stream a video while checking out your emails, if you want to focus on the film, try the full screen mode.
Evernote Free (iTunes link)
Needs no real introduction, just probably the most feature rich multiplatform notes app out there. Looks elegants designed with a UI to match Apple’s standard Mail app.
Things $19.99 (itunes link)
Toodledo $2.99 (iTunes Link)
Popular task management app with a much prettier iPhone/iPad app than website sadly. Offers a combination of simple clean design, customization, and intuitiveness.
Instapaper $9.99 (iTunes Link)
Popular tool that allows you to quickly save and read articles you find on the web. It styles them in a cleanly designed format in a font of your choice for you to read in your own time.
1Password $6.99 (iTunes Link)
1Password is an award-winning password and identity manager. Syncs across your iPad, iPhone and desktop.
Omnigraffle $49.99 (iTunes Link)
Turns you iPad touch screen into a canvas. Using simple multitouch gestures, draw shapes, drag in objects, and style everything until it’s just right. Share your creations via PDF export, or open them in OmniGraffle for Mac.
Sugarsync Free (iTunes Link)
SugarSync enables instant remote access to all of your files. Access all your files and photos, access entire folders, stream an entire library of music, and share files with colleagues and friends.
Memeo Connect Free (iTunes Link)
Connects to your Google account and syncs files in popular formats like PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Jpg etc. No editing just yet unfortunately.
Taska $2.99 (iTunes Link)
Taska is an elegantly-designed GTD app with refined and easy-to-use features.
Multitask $2.99 (iTunes App)
App that slots a neat little rss reader in a sidebar of a browser so you can get your news fix while your browse the web. Of course you could probably use the first app in this list but there’s something about having an app built for a specific task that rubs me the right way.
ok, who's got more?
Will be interesting to see how much the iPad replaces the laptop as a business device.
Check out the Next Web's selection (http://bit.ly/ipad-productivity-apps) as a shareable, embeddable widget, from AppsFire.
Jonathan
AppsFire.com
We just launched CrowdMap, a real-time mindmapping app for iPad and iPhone. Check it out in the app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crowdmap/id368351155?mt=8#
If you’re trying Sugarsync, I suggest you also check out Fiabee.com.
We have an iPhone/iPad app that will allow you to access your backed-up files on the go as well. You can then share those without having to download them locally to your device.
The app is available here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fiabee/id369115252?mt=8
I’m looking for a productivity app for ipad that combines checklists with a timer… so that I can set recurrent (daily, some days, weekly, etc.) timers that open to specified checklists… For example: 20 minutes before it’s time to leave for work a timer goes off that opens a checklist (do i have briefcase, coffee, breakfast eaten, wallet/purse, house keys, glasses, etc.). Does this exist do you know?
I’ll add one to the list: LifeTopix. Best productivity app for the money and it’s a universal app. It’s got a great combination of features – does way more than Things and Toodledo for a lot less money.
I would like to shamefully plug my app: surfboard
http://surfboardapp.com
It combines web surfing with a pinch-zoom preview and slideshows. You can set up the sites you like to visit regularly and it will slideshow them in the dock and reload them occasionally.
thanks for this great list – I would just add: Facetasks,
that I use to plan and keep track of tasks of my team at work
and my family at home. Plus for my own todos as well :-)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facetasks/id414719161?mt=8
A must have, really.
My number one productivity tool so far is OmniOutliner.
It has a horrible name but it’s actually a very flexible tool for keeping lists, combining tables with bullets, excel style without the overkill of excel.
It’s great.
http://www.mobilespoon.net/2011/08/omnioutliner-best-productivity-app-for.html