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Scanner Pro

A huge advantage for your workflow is paper free work. You can easily search, archive and share your documents! With Scanner Pro for iOS there is always a portable scanner in your pocket to scan any document, article, receipt, whiteboard or paper note you need. (img-source) Scanner Pro makes it simple to: Scan receipts to keep track of travel expenses Convert paper notes and sketches into...

Apr 28th

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Save Things for Later - pocket

Last Saturday I posted an article about my personal “News-Flow” in which the Web-/iOS-App “Instapaper” by Marco Arment played a large role in saving articles to read them later. But Instapaper isn’t the only service providing a feature like that. There are two other big services out there: Readability and Pocket (Formerly Read It Later). Today I want to give you a...

Apr 21st

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My Personal News-Flow

With this article I would like to describe my personal way to inform myself of what’s happening around the world. I think I found a very good solution to this problem and it’s probably worth explaining it to you! Disclaimer: There is no perfect way for everybody to consume the NEWS™ and I think you have to find your personal balance between “analog” (old) and...

Apr 14th

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Evernote

There are many services out there, that help you to keep your notes in order, sync and perfect for your personal workflow. I tested plenty of them and I think the best one is Evernote. Why Evernote? At first, the apps: Evernote is available on almost every platform you may use. You can go to every computer, every smartphone or even every browser you want to use it with and it just works,...

Apr 12th

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MindNode - Easy mind mapping

A very powerful tool for a great workflow is mind mapping. Not only on paper, but with your computer, tablet and smartphone. Welcome to the 21st century! The guys over at IdeasOnCanvas GmbH did an amazing job with their MindNode apps to provide a gorgeous mind mapping experience. (img-source) With its clean and elegant UI, MindNode offers nice working conditions, so you can use it...

Apr 12th

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Social Media Management - ifttt

“If this then that” (ifttt) is a beta project created in San Francisco that allows you to connect and automate nearly all social media services you can think of. (Screenshot from ifttt.com) For example:  Tweet, e-mail or save a new blog post from Wordpress to Instapaper Add a Instagram photo to my Dropbox Tweet “good morning” every day at 8 o’clock When...

Apr 10th

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Clear for iPhone + extra themes

There are so many ToDo apps in Apple’s App Store today and one of my favourites is Clear for iPhone from Realmac Software. Personally I use Clear to quickly create a list of things that have to be done or remembered without a certain due time or location (like geo fencing). “With its beautiful interface, and gestural interactions you already know how to use, it’s the future of...

Apr 9th

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How to organize your desk?

This is my desk in 2009 (left) and today (right): So, there are two kinds of people and desk styles. Kind one: “The chaos inspiration desk” Some people must have millions of things and tools on their desk to stay inspired and keep on working well. They love the chaos and know exactly where things are and why these things are at their particular place. For this kind of...

Apr 9th

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Focus on writing with iA Writer

When your are an ambitious student or journalist you often want to write long texts without any distraction of Microsoft Word’s terrible UI, for example. To stay focused on your creative writing you will need a different kind of text editor. That’s exactly what iA Writer is about! iA Writer is an extremely elegant editor to make you stay focused while writing with it’s clean...

Apr 6th

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Wunderkit

The first helpful new way to improve your workflow is Wunderkit! Known for cross-platform apps like Wunderlist the developers of 6Wunderkinder from Berlin did an amazing job with their new productivity platform. Wunderkit. (img-source) Wunderkit is all about working with the huge power of the community and a diversity of great designed apps that sync cross-platform wherever your are. The...

Apr 4th

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Hello World!

Hello! I’m Michael Heider and the founder of this project. ‘Flow Your Work’ is going to pivot on improving each other’s individual workflow for a better working experience and helping to work even more productive as you already do. I’m going to provide you with helpful articles about how to get an amazing day to day working experience. Including articles about...

Apr 3rd