Tools for Digital Executives (Spring 2014 app list)

This is the Spring 2014 list of what I consider to be the iPad/iPhone must-have digital tools.

Let’s face it: You are a busy executive; you might want to spend time trying out some of the myriad new apps, but time is a luxury you don’t have.

Here is the list of what I think are the best. It’s probably subjective & not scientifically proven. At the same time, it will save you time, and make you more productive.Over the past years I have used and assessed a lot of apps for personal use, and I thought that the results might be useful to others.

Please note that I do not have an interest in, nor am I connected to the companies producing these apps.

If you choose to use any of them, you do so at your own risk. Some of them are free, for others you have to pay, so make your own decision.

If you know of some other apps that you think are worth being included, please mention them in a comment, maybe they will be on the next list.

Calendar management

– Fantastical

Office suites:

– MS Office (if you have a 365 subscription it allows edits as well)

Presentations: Note – if you do a lot of presentations from your iPad, you might want to get the iPad to VGA or HDMI connector from Apple, so that you display content on larger screens/projectors)

– Keynote – if you install it both on iPad and iPhone, you link them together by Bluetooth and control the presentation from your iPhone;

– Powerpoint (part of the MS Office suite – see above)

Note taking:

– Evernote (main repository of info, quite a few other apps integrate with it)

– OneNote (in theory notes can be synced via Sharepoint but I did not managed yet to do this)

– Drafts (very good at integrating with other tools, “always ready” type of app)

ToDo/Action Tracking

– OmniFocus

– Beesy (good for note taking and action tracking with deadlines etc; syncs with beesy.me)

– Nozbe

Training slides/explaining:

– VideoScribe