5 Ways Your iPad Can Improve Your Time Management
TechnologyWant to miss fewer appointments, meet more deadlines, and generally be better organized?
Welcome to the era of the tablet. The handwritten journal is no longer the time management guru’s calling card, but rather the ubiquitous Ipad 2. Apple knows we want to be more organized, so it has optimized the iPad 2 to satisfy the doubts of the layman. time to get organized.
Here are 5 ways to make your iPad better at your time management.
1. Get Evernote
Evernote can be a very useful app, if you use it to the fullest. Unfortunately, I regularly find people using Evernote. They classify it as an “app” exclusively for iPad, when in fact it is an application that must be installed on your iPad, iPhone and desktop computer.
It’s a great platform to start and develop ideas, annotate important websites, and distribute them across your entire range of electronic devices. When you use Evernote the right way, you’ll find yourself saving time on a regular basis. For example, when you’re home and ready to work on a project already started, or when you have time on the train to analyze a website on your iPhone, your information is ready to go.
2. Use reminders
Reminders is a new app built into Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 5, and it’s a cracker. Apple has widely advertised that it’s used efficiently with Siri on the iPhone 4S, but it’s just as effective on the iPad 2.
When setting a reminder, be sure to enter the due date. Reminders will give you a reminder as your due date approaches (just like mom did with you in second grade). This is great for appointments and tasks you set up a long time ago. To optimize your use of this app, make sure you add every appointment you have and check all your reminders once a week, this will help you not be totally dependent on your iPad, but it will also exercise your gray matter.
3. Use a time clock
If you need to record clients’ time or tasks, not many applications have been developed, but there is a great solution online. This online time clock can be used on all your online devices.
Start the time on your iPad when you take a call at home, and then you can stop it when you get to work on your work PC. You can have multiple clients, start them and register them, which makes your organization much easier. Your data will be omnipresent, transcendent, wherever you need it. An essential way to improve your time management on iPad.
4. Daily sync via Wifi
If you’re running OS Lion on your Apple Mac and iOS 5 on your iPad 2, you need to sync your iPad every night. No cables needed, it will sync over Wifi. This will sync all your reminders and calendar entries, and will sync any email changes and safari sites. It doesn’t take long to set up and will simplify your time management system. If you haven’t set this up yet, please let me know, honestly, it’s great.
5. Don’t buy Angry Birds
Okay, I back off, I don’t understand addicted to Angry Birds. The iPad 2 is an excellent platform for gaming. It may be one of the main reasons why it has skyrocketed in popularity in the community as it has introduced a new way to play. Unfortunately, this can be incredibly detrimental to your time management. There are so many addictive games available on the app store. Personally my Kryptonite is Angry Birds, I just can’t stop. So how can you get past this entertaining hurdle?
You could be too tough and not download games on your iPad, but then you would be missing out on a lot of fun. Instead, install all your work and productivity apps on the first screen of your iPad, and then all your entertainment and games on subsequent screens. Be mindful not to switch screens during work time, and this will remove the temptation.
Apple says it right when it calls the iPad “magic.” Use it to its fullest, and it will help you improve your time management, use it recklessly and you will be known as a late and indolent disciple of the Angry birds.