How to Increase Productivity with iPhone

Smartphones have become critically necessary instrument in our daily lives. It is more than just a communicational instrument in the modern world. In an era where everyone works online, smartphones have become the driving force behind mobility and organization. Smartphones have replaced many devices such as cameras, PDAs and pagers.

The iPhone introduced by apple was the pioneer of making smartphones that replaced those devices people used to increase productivity. Suddenly mobile phones became more than something that is used to make calls. It became a handheld computer that used to communicate, organize and socialize. Apple introduced various applications to increase productivity in their flagship devices and later everything was centralized using cloud technology. Lets talk about these tools briefly.

Notes

The Notes app is the built specifically to take notes, draft memos, gather thoughts, and otherwise save text on your iPhone and other apple devices. Notes are simplified to the specific use, which is taking down notes and nothing else. You can enter and edit text, look for replacement words, and get definitions, sync between iOS, Mac, and iCloud.com, and even control Notes via Apple's virtual personal assistant, Siri. You can create folders for taking notes and manage them separately. This application will be improved with up coming version of iOS. You can use notes to increase you productivity by writing anything down at anytime. For an example, it doesn’t matter if you are at a lecture, meeting or watching a video tutorial. You can take notes where and later sync it to your MacBook, PC or iCloud.

Calendar

Calendar is the most elementary level organizational tool that any organized person would use. The iPhone calendars help you to keep track of what you're doing and when, which is why it's one of the core apps on all mobile devices. It was launched with the first iPhone in 2007 and it included a Calendar application. You can use Calendar by itself, sync it via iCloud, Google Calendar, Microsoft, or something else. No matter what service you use, it's the default way to add and find appointments and events. Whether you're just getting started with Calendar for iPhone or another apple device you can get all events on your phone to get organized and increase productivity. Appointments and events can be added and they will be reminded in a way you choose. The iPhone notifications play a clever role by notifying appointments and events to the phone.

Reminder

The Reminder app is the Apple task and to-do app. As with most built-in apps, the functionality is very specific to the use case. It won't be replacing high-end "getting things done" apps any time soon or any other task managing application in the market. Interestingly, you need to have either iCloud and/or Exchange sync setup to use Reminders. Once you've enabled sync in Settings, iCloud will create a Reminders list and Exchange will create a Task list and they you can create reminders for your business. This app replaces the old pager that was used to remind / buzz the users of meetings and events, which already papers on the lock screen of your iPhone.

iCloud

iCloud Drive is Apple's new solution to document and file management across iOS and OS X. If you are using an iPhone with iOS 5 or above and you have an iCloud account, you can use iCloud Drive. Subscriptions range from free 5GB space to $19.99 a month for extra space, depending on your storage needs.

There are several important features implemented in iCloud. You will get a free email address from apple to manage all your messaging in one place. You can even manage your contact from the cloud. Uploading and synchronization of contacts are allowed so you will never miss a contact again. You can export and send them as business cards as well.

iCloud doesn’t stop there, it allows you to save all your documents in the cloud at given space. This includes photos, videos, documents and music. You can access these using any smart device in the world. The services / apps that I mentioned earlier are synched and can be controlled via iCloud.

Other than that apple allows you to use cloud apps such as Keynote, Numbers and Pages online. These apps are valuable to be productive as you wont. You can create documents, presentation and spreadsheets as well. In other words its an online alternative for the office package.

You can use your iPhone device to increase your productivity using many other apps in the apps store as well. Apple has taken these initial steps correctly to make iPhone a one tool that you can use for everything. You can create mockups for above apps using iPhone mockup tool creately.