Awesome Apps That Make Life Easy

If you're in need of some assistance to make your life more organised, these apps are here to get the job done for you.

Digital Filing Cabinet: doxo Mobile
If you still have a flesh and blood (or in this case, wood and steel) filing cabinet at home, you desperately need an upgrade. The doxo Mobile is a digital filing chest that is a one-stop shop storage unit where you can add all of your important stuff like your credit card statement, marriage certificate, and old tax filings. All you have to do is take a picture of the document you want to store, and file it into the proper place.

Your Together Calendar: SimplyUs
It can be tough for a married couple to find alone-time to spend with each other, in the midst of other priorities like work, kids, household chores etc. SimplyUs, also known as “the central hub for your relationship” coordinates the hectic lives of even the busiest couples into a master calendar. The app adjoins your shared schedules from Google or Outlook. You can share stuff like your grocery-lists, to-dos and more. It also allows private photos and messages.

Suitcase: Packing (+To Do!)
Everything you're packing for a business trip or a vacation, you're constantly worried about that one crucial item that you're probably going to leave behind. But thanks to Packing (+To Do!), you will never have to fret over missing items ever again! With the app, you can create packing lists from scratch or from a detailed sample checklist. By including an estimated weight of your packed belongings, it deters you from over-stuffing your suitcase , in the event that you might have to incur an additional baggage fee.

Closet: Cloth
This app turns your closet into a personalized look-book. All you have to do is click a picture of your favourite, compliment-worthy ensemble facing a mirror or use your phone’s front-facing camera, save it and share it with Cloth. You can file each of your pictures into a variety of categories such as Vacation or Everyday and store them for the future. You can then plug your look to your social networks or the ClothingApp.com. If the editors of the app like what they see, they might even feature you on the app’s website

Recipes: KeepRecipes
If your inbox is currently being flooded by all the recipe newsletters from all those cooking sites you've been visiting, then it’s time to use an app like KeepRecipes. This bookmarking app that is devoted only to food lets you organize your favourite meals in one place. It is rather similar to Pinterest, and features recipes that are trending as well as recipes from famous foodies form around the world. To save a recipe into your ‘My Recipes’ box, all you have to do is hit the “Keep it!” button. This means that you won’t have to spend quite as much time scouring your email for that recipe you once came across, and more time in the kitchen, whipping up a culinary storm.

Cork Board Ideas: Corkulous
Remember that exercise where you have to tack all if your wishes, dreams and desires to a corkboard, plaster or wall and revisit it every time to remind yourself the goal that you are working towards? Well now, you can minus the tape, glue and thumbtacks thanks to Corkulous, a portable vision board that puts all your dreams and aspirations in one place. To add contacts, sticky notes, index cards or photos, all you have to do is tap the icons and an organized map appears in front of you.

Travel Itineraries: Tripit
Whether you're travelling for business with your colleagues or for pleasure with your friends and family, Tripit is your go-to personal assistant to successfully organize any of your travel plans. All you have to do is email your hotel confirmations, flight itineraries, restaurant reservations, scheduled car rentals, and more to plans@tripit.com and it is instantly uploaded within seconds into the app. There is also an opt-in service that routinely scans your inbox for any new travel plans, so you will never need to forward anything ever again. If that wasn’t enough, the app ups the ante on your expectations by mapping out the directions between your destinations, just like a travel agent would.

Finances: Adaptu Wallet
Imagine if you could put your financial planner in your purse, wouldn’t that be awesome? Now with Adaptu Wallet, a money management tool linking credit cards, bank accounts, investments and more into one secure, organized place, you can do exactly that! If you are a stickler for setting predefined monthly budgets to rein in your spends, Adaptu Wallet tells you if you’re in the red, yellow or green. If you are the kind of person who likes to control every aspect of their finances, the app also provides you with a historical view of your spending complete with graphs. Who knows? You might even find yourself not needing the services of your financial planner, thanks to this handy little app!

Passwords: LastPass
If you have a bad memory when it comes to passwords, you aren’t alone. That is probably one of the reasons that LastPass has become so popular in the first place. Thanks to LastPass, no more hitting the “Forget Password?” button. You can use this single, secure, sign-on password management tool for all your online identities and for all the passwords you just can’t seem to remember. There is a yearly membership fee, so you might want to consider that. When you create your LastPass account, you have to input your original data and the app stores this info securely in the cloud. So the next time you launch iVillage or Pinterest, within LastPass, your password is inserted for an automatic sign-in. This means that you have only one password to remember and you're free from having to remember the tons and tons that you normally have to.

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