Which App do you appreciate the most?

Aren’t apps wonderful! There’s pretty much an app to monitor, remind and track every part of our lives.

Apart from the ‘normal’ ones that comes standard with smart phones these days, here’s a list of my four favourites:

1.     Todoist – as mentioned before, I love check lists and ticking things off them. This is a wonderful app to keep track of things that need to be actioned each day. You can also include recurring items. One of the features that I really like is the “karma” feature where you can set yourself daily goals and along the way you get points for reaching them. It also keeps track of how many days in a row you’ve managed to reach your daily target. As you accumulate points you move up the karma levels from “Beginner” all the way up to being “Enlightened” when you’ve completed 50k+ tasks. Currently I am a 'Grandmaster'. [Recently I had achieved a streak of 102 days of consecutively ticking ten things off daily – sadly and annoyingly, I forgot to update it at the end of the day, and I’m now back to three days.]

2.     SnapScan – after a morning networking session in Sea Point and having to track down an ATM to draw money for parking, a friend told me about SnapScan – no more having to scrounge around for loose change to pay for parking or having to walk blocks to draw money. It’s linked to your credit card, so your phone basically become the credit card; super convenient.  

3.     CamCard – this is a marvellous  timesaver. Instead of manually having to type in the details of someone’s business card, all you do is take a photo of it, and it converts the photo to text and automatically saves it into your list of contacts. It does not always pick up some of the colours and fonts so you do need to double check the details; it is however really easy to edit.

4.     Strava – it’s a bit of a toss-up between Strava and Runtastic; I’ve been using Runtastic a lot longer than Strava, however more of my friends are using Strava. The app tracks your activities such as running / walking / cycling; I have a friend that even tracks his kite surfing. It tracks your route on a map, distance completed and the speed. You can track your friends and see what they are doing and give each other ‘kudos’. There are also a number of challenges that you can sign up for (haven’t tried them yet).

What are some of your favourite apps and why?