Flow Your Work

In August 2012 Evernote and Moleskine announced their collaboration in a new product, that combines the advantages of both companies.

Together, we created a gorgeous notebook that includes a number of special features that allow you to take your ideas off the written page and place them right into Evernote, where they’ll be searchable, organized and available forever.

(via Evernote Blog)

As Moleskine is known for high quality paper products and elegant designs, the company is the perfect partner to produce a notebook like that. Through Evernote’s iOS App featuring the “Page Camera” you are able to scan the content of each page to archive, organize and search your notes by using the web service intelligently.

In the back pocket of the notebook you will find a stack of stickers showing different icons. By putting a sticker on an entry Evernote automatically integrates it into the appropriate notebook you set before. Consequently, there are possibilities to divide private and corporate notes, sign different types of content and mark ToDo lists as done, for instance.

The notebooks are available in two sizes: Pocket ($24.95) and large ($29.95). Both come with a code for three months free of Evernote’s Premium service.

A major update to your productivity

(via culturedcode.com)

After we’ve waited so many months, the second major release of the task managing software Things finally came out. Things 2 is a even cleaner and smarter version of my favorite ToDo app, which most importantly solves the problem of cloud synchronization. Since the private beta in May 2011 and the public beta in February 2012 Things Cloud managed to sync tasks for more than 30,000 users already. But on top of that Things 2 is full of other amazing new features, that make task management smarter than ever.

Things Cloud

Compared to the local network Bonjour Sync that Things had before version 2.0, Things Cloud is up to 4x faster for all the changes you make. According to Cultured Code’s press release Things Cloud operates securely and based on a SSL connection between your clients and Things’ servers.

Things Cloud is free and works fast and reliable. You only have to switch it on in Things’ preferences, create an account and it works all across your devices.

But frankly I hoped to see such a seamless experience like Cheddar provides, but with Things Cloud you definitely see pull requests with timestamps and sometimes you have to request the sync manually. I think the concept behind the sync is a push when you re-open the app. This implementation of cloud sync is definitely not the best but its great to work with.

Easy user interface

For those of you who didn’t know Things before this review it’s important to know that there are only a few apps that provide such a clean and intuitive to use UI. Everything is sorted by projects, tags and dates like today, next, scheduled and someday.

Let’s go on with the new features…

…Quick entry with Autofill

With a system wide shortcut the quick entry feature of Things is a great way to quickly add new ToDo’s to your inbox. And with Autofill it’s even more powerful to add meta information or longer text from e-mails, for example.

Daily Review

Daily Review is a great new feature of Things 2 which helps you to manage the tasks you want to do today. It’s often a problem to plan for many days or weeks but with Daily Review you have the ability to chose what you want to do today and what to move to another date in relation to your daily planning and the time you have. And it’s also great to not forget about tasks you didn’t have time to do the other day.

Apps

             Mac OS X ($49.95) | iPhone ($9.99) | iPad ($19.99)

Cultured Code did an amazing job with designing three gorgeous apps for Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad. All three apps have the same concept and utilize the different advantages of each platform. And as we have Things Cloud now, everything is in sync.

Summary

All in all I think that Things 2 is a great update of the most beautiful task magaging software for the Apple universe. Although Things Cloud isn’t that great as syncing services of other apps it is great to don’t have to worry about if everything is up to date. Together with Daily Review, Things 2 convinced me to switch back to it from Wunderkit I used full time before.

“Your Quick-Input Notepad”

(via GoKarbon.com)

Today I’d like to present you a well designed text editor for iOS with a huge diversity of writing features.

Scratch for iPhone is amazing to quickly take notes because it’s always ready for new input. After you opened the app there is a simple and clean text field and your keyboard. On top of this standard iOS keyboard there is a toolbar with a lot of useful special characters and symbols. Additionally to that there are buttons for your writing history, the export settings, the text formatting and markdown text editing. But you can simply customize this toolbar, too.

And to export is easy via:

• E-Mail
• Message
• Tweet
• or a “.txt” file for your Dropbox

This piece of software costs just $2.99 in the App Store! Check it out!

And if you like this app you should read my review of iA Writer, a clean text editor with iCloud integration, too.

Today I would like to show you an app to improve your operating speeds on iOS devices!

You have a lot of apps on your phone and they are categorized in folders or pages so you can’t open them quickly. That’s a speed problem for your daily use! Today’s app allows you to open these apps with one touch, but it goes one step further.

Lauch Center Pro by App Cubby isn’t only a fast way to open apps but to run different kinds of actions within the apps.

(Launch Center Pro | Video)

The revolution in Launch Center Pro is the possibility to trigger different actions!

Here are some examples:

• Call your Mom 
• Message a friend 
• Email your boss 
• Search Twitter using Tweetbot 
• Create a new item in Omnifocus 
• Search Yelp for nearby coffee shops 
• Fire up Instagram’s camera, instantly 
• Jump right to your favorite website 
• Use the iPhone as a flashlight 
• And so much more…

LCP costs $2.99 and it’s really worth the money. Check it out in the App-Store!

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Today I would like to focus on an iOS app and web service called “Cheddar”!

(Cheddar Promo | Video)

Cheddar is a simple and elegant app/service to manage all your ToDos, shopping lists, ideas etc. Like all ToDo apps I tested on FlowYourWork.com Cheddar is easy and fun to use, but it has two killer features that provide an amazing experience to work with it!

The fist one is….sync!

This is really the best syncing experience I’ve ever had! There are no syncing periods, no local “wifi-sync” and no painful connecting procedure. It just works. It instantly pushes the latest infos all across your devices. In my opinion this app has a much better implementation of syncing than Wunderkit or Evernote!

The second one is….markdown!

This is gorgeous for all of you, who are creative and want to collect their ideas together with links, tags, italic and bold test style, strikethrough writing, code and emojies! Here is the complete list of Cheddar’s possibilities!

So, where can you find it?

You can download the iOS app, sign up for the web interface and get more information, here!

Cheddar is free for everyone! But with the pro account (1.99$/month) it’s possible to create unlimited lists. Check it out!

Rule is all about Project Management and Cloud Collaboration.

Save Time. Get Organized. Stay on Task. Rule Work with One Application and Keep Your Team on the Same Page from the Smallest Task to the Biggest Deal.

Every work item has its own space for sharing, connecting & collaborating.

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When we think of today’s possibilities to work on the internet, it’s necessary collaborate with many people all around the globe. It’s very important to have one unified place where all the good and bad stuff of your work comes together, where you can share files, communicate with each other and organize your collaborative work.

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One of my very first articles centered around a social project planning platform called “Wunderkit” and today we’re talking about Rule! A really big advantage of Rule is its diversity of powerful features, such like…

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• User and WorkGroup Management
• Document Management
• Project Management
• Productivity Stream
• Private Messaging
• Permissions
• Drop Email
• Calendar
• Security
• Support
• Wikis

All in all, Rule.fm is an amazingly interesting service pointing to the innovative direction of collaborative work in the near future.

Rule costs about $49-199 per month and is available on www.rule.fm!