Evernote is constantly improving and it is one of the first things I recommend to anyone looking for a general capture tool. I use it enough that I’m always interested in making it do more. Here are some apps that add some unique features to the mix.
EverClip does one job: It runs in the background and grabs anything put on the pasteboard and uploads it to Evernote. Given that Evernote is available everywhere, EverClip actually makes a pretty good multi-platform clipboard tool.
As someone who organizes email by folders, the default mail app for iOS is awkward at best. Typically, I only read incoming and send outgoing message on iOS. I do all of my filing back on my Mac.
Enter eMailGanizer.1
I’ve been using eMailGanizer for about a month and it is a perfect companion to the dumbed down default iOS Mail app. It’s not an all-in-one replacement for the Mail app, but it fills in a lot of the gaps and it’s a powerhouse for message processing.
Popapp looks cool. It’s also a great gift for all of your friends and family that think they “have a great idea for an iPhone app”. They draw the various app views on paper, snap a photo and then wire up the controls. It’s simple but clever.
Checkout Brent Simmons talking about how to use Microsoft Sync Service for iOS. I think this is very cool. I hope Microsoft does more of this. We need better options for iOS data infrastructure than just iCloud and Dropbox.
Watch the videos. They’re endearing.
By way of Jeff LaMarche
The Axx.net action page collects links to inter-application URL actions for iOS. It reminds me of Veritrope.com but for iOS. The collection is still small, but it’s a good start. Impressively, there’s a form to request new solutions. Scary.
I really like my iTunes library. I really like my smart play lists. I really don’t care for the iOS music player so I play the field. I recently stumbled across Groove for iOS and I am thrilled with it.1
Tag Team The core of Groove is it’s tagging engine. When I first launched Groove there was a brief period of about five minutes while it performed a sync with my library, including iTunes Match.
The Ground Rules The bar is pretty high after the first round of evaluations.
There are a few areas that I have found most OmniFocus competitors fail hard and a few that make OmniFocus look like a LeapFrog application.
Sequential vs. Unordered Tasks
This is an odd omission. No system I have found has an option to indicate a sequential or unordered list of tasks for a project. Worse, some systems have almost no option for setting the order of tasks.
It’s become a thing for me that when I don’t have a weekly sponsor, I post Pinboard tips instead. Let’s continue the trend.
Pinboard is wonderful, but on iPad I really prefer a native app. The best app I’ve used is Pinbook. Here’s why:
Quick Add From Pasteboard Pinbook immediately detects a new URL on the iPad pasteboard when launched and then offers to add a new bookmark. But it’s smart about it.
Penultimate was acquired by Evernote back in May of 2012. Today they announced the biggest update to Penultimate in the nine months since the acquisition.
Penultimate is now free and sports the amazing handwriting recognition available with Evernote. Penultimate can now search sketches and display hits.
For more info and a nice video demo, check out the Evernote blog.
I keep most of my photos archived in an Aperture library. But I also have a good size collection in Dropbox. I’m not likely to move completely to Dropbox for my photo collection. It’s much too large and I really like the benefits I get with Aperture. Dropbox simply makes sharing and syncing easy though. I take a lot of photos of whiteboards, documents, and notes that I don’t want in my PhotoStream.
