We live in the age of fast-paced convenience. We can order our food online, track it’s progress and watch the delivery guy at our front-door within minutes, we don’t have a need to carry around wallets, if we opt to use Google Wallet. Developers everywhere are working all over the world to make our lives easier. But we shouldn’t take for granted the apps that already make our lives easier, right? I’ve compiled a modest list of my favorite convenience apps on iPhone.
1. Instapaper
Walking down the street, dangerously scrolling your timeline and an interesting article catches your eye? Save it to Instapaper through the app’s bookmarklet or connect your account to your social networks and you can read it later like a breeze. You can organize your articles, webpages and videos by folder and can share them to Facebook, Twitter or email them to friends directly on the app.
Download Instapaper: Here
2. Wunderlist
I’m a to-do-list maniac, it’s the only way I can ever get anything done. Wunderlist helps keep my inner type A, task oriented beast in check. You can easily categorize your tasks, add notes and deadlines in a cinch. As you check off each task, the task disappears, but is saved to your Wunderlist account – keeping my blood pressure from boiling.
Download Wunderlist: Here
3. Springpad
Need a place to store those books you’ve been dying to read, exhibits you want to check out or those documentaries that your friend recommended to you last week? Springpad keeps ‘notebooks’ of your interests on a dashboard for you to add to and check off your list.
Download Springpad: Here
4. Flipboard
I feel like at least once a week, I have a conversation that starts with “Did you read that article in …” Just like we watched our parents read the New York Times in print with coffee in the morning as the school bus arrived, today as faux grown-ups we need our digital newspapers and morning joe, too. Flipboard is beautifully designed and gives you the latest and trending articles based on publications or topics of your choosing that are easy to share, read and categorize – making your daily media diet easily digestable.
Download Flipboard: Here
5. Path
A beautiful and innovatively designed social networking app that takes your photos (with filter options), status updates, geo-location check-ins, and music streams into a intimately, streamlined timeline of your life. It’s super personal and cozy, so your friends on Path get a good sense of exactly who you are, digitally speaking. The app is intuative and brilliant. Sign up and encourage your friends to do the same, it’ll heighten you’re Path experience.
Download Path: Here
6. Brewster
An new app launched on July 12th, 2012 that allows you to take all of your contacts from your address book, email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursqaure contacts into one place where you can categorize by smart lists. The smart lists breakdown your most mutual connections (the group that is most connected to one another), industry contacts, friends, city and even down to industry type. It’s quite intelligent. You can see who you’ve lost touch with and who’s in town. Brewster helps you efficently stay connected online and IRL.
Download Brewster: Here
7. Zite
Zite solves the same issue that Flipboard does but takes things a step further, including compelling content from smaller, higher quality outlets from academic journals and incredible, untapped blogs. You can refine your choice of content to precise niches of information like spirituality, women’s politics, writing + blogging. You get the picture. I’ve found some of the more compelling content and topics on Zite, than I have in all my years of scouring the web for a unique and insightful POV.
Download Zite: Here
So, what apps (iPhone or iPad) are you using for every day convenience and productivity that make your life a breeze?