Want to miss fewer appointments, meet more deadlines, and generally be better organized?
Welcome to the age of the tablet. The handwritten journal is no longer the calling card of the time management guru, but the ubiquitous iPad 2. Apple knows we want to be more organized, so it’s optimized iPad 2 to satisfy the doubts of the layman. time to get organized.
Here are 5 ways to make your iPad improve 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 iPad-exclusive “app”, when in reality it is an app that needs to be installed on your iPad, iPhone and desktop computer.
It’s a great platform for starting and developing ideas, annotating important websites, and distributing them across your 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 you’ve already started, or when you have time on the train to analyze a website on your iPhone, your data is ready to use.
2. Use reminders
Reminders is a new application 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 you set a reminder, be sure to enter the due date. Reminders will give you a reminder as the due date approaches (just like Mom did with you in second grade). This is great for appointments and tasks that you set a long time ago. To optimize the use of this app, make sure to 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 customer time or tasks, not many apps 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’re on 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 and register them, which makes your organization much easier. Your data will be omnipresent, transcendent, where 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 should sync your iPad every night. No wires needed, it will sync over WiFi. This will sync all your reminders and calendar entries, and sync any changes from email and safari sites. It doesn’t take long to set up and it will simplify your time management system. If you haven’t set this up yet, please let me know, honestly that’s great.
5. Don’t buy Angry Birds
Ok, 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 catapulted to popularity in the community, as it has introduced a new way of playing. 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 overcome this entertaining obstacle?
You could be very harsh and not download games on your iPad, but then you would be missing out on a lot of fun. Instead, install all your productivity and work 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 the fullest, and it will help you improve your time management, use it recklessly and you will be known as an indolent late disciple of Angry birds.