I've seen a few posts up-thread about various apps. Things I use (that help productivity...also use a lot of games and other things that are just time sinks, lol):
AnyList. Allows you to create lists (Grocery lists, to-do lists, packing lists - you can have as many lists as you want, named as you want). Lists have categories - the default categories are grocery related, but you can define category sets for other types. These are check-list/mark-off-items list type lists. You can have favorites/predefined sets of list elements that you can add back to the list one at a time or en masse. So you can have, for example, a "standard" packing list plus a few things you sometimes need listed separately. Preparing for a trip? Bring up your packing list, tell it to add the entire "standard" list, and quickly browse the others (that you previously saved) and add the ones that you recognize as needed this time. Lists can be shared with other users of the app *on a per-list basis*. So my list of gifts to get people is mine alone (so I don't spoil surprises!), but the same grocery list appears in my AnyList and my husband's AnyList and we can each update it as needed. (We also have a shared Honey Do list, because Scott and I are bothered by different things around the house and one of us doesn't even always *notice* what bugs the other. Whoever gets to it first, great...but this way, one of us doesn't spend an hour and a half lovingly fixing something that's the eighth item on the other's priority list, when the top three all could have been addressed in that same time.)
Dropbox. Used to flip files from my computer to my phone, among other things. I use it for its intended purpose, but I take a lot of Coursera courses, and this gives me an easy mechanism to get the videos on to my phone, instead of all the dancing about with iTunes. I can even watch them in the app.
Kindle. I *have* a Kindle, and I prefer to read on it in general. But if it's low on charge, or if I'm in a space limited spot, or I can't carry it with me but have my phone in my pocket, the Kindle app is a *lovely* thing. I like having access to books on my phone. For a long time I didn't have a physical Kindle, and I was able to get by pretty well with just the app.
For a while I used TrackNShare to try to figure out what the patterns were in triggering flares of some of my health issues, but I, uh, sort of kept forgetting to enter data. So make of that what you will. The reporting isn't quite what I want yet either, though I think they're looking at it. There's no overlay of graphs for different things, you can look at them *next* to one another, but you have to mentally do the overlay yourself. But I mention it because I can see it being useful to someone whose brain works a little differently than mine.
iPhone apps
AnyList. Allows you to create lists (Grocery lists, to-do lists, packing lists - you can have as many lists as you want, named as you want). Lists have categories - the default categories are grocery related, but you can define category sets for other types. These are check-list/mark-off-items list type lists. You can have favorites/predefined sets of list elements that you can add back to the list one at a time or en masse. So you can have, for example, a "standard" packing list plus a few things you sometimes need listed separately. Preparing for a trip? Bring up your packing list, tell it to add the entire "standard" list, and quickly browse the others (that you previously saved) and add the ones that you recognize as needed this time. Lists can be shared with other users of the app *on a per-list basis*. So my list of gifts to get people is mine alone (so I don't spoil surprises!), but the same grocery list appears in my AnyList and my husband's AnyList and we can each update it as needed. (We also have a shared Honey Do list, because Scott and I are bothered by different things around the house and one of us doesn't even always *notice* what bugs the other. Whoever gets to it first, great...but this way, one of us doesn't spend an hour and a half lovingly fixing something that's the eighth item on the other's priority list, when the top three all could have been addressed in that same time.)
Dropbox. Used to flip files from my computer to my phone, among other things. I use it for its intended purpose, but I take a lot of Coursera courses, and this gives me an easy mechanism to get the videos on to my phone, instead of all the dancing about with iTunes. I can even watch them in the app.
Kindle. I *have* a Kindle, and I prefer to read on it in general. But if it's low on charge, or if I'm in a space limited spot, or I can't carry it with me but have my phone in my pocket, the Kindle app is a *lovely* thing. I like having access to books on my phone. For a long time I didn't have a physical Kindle, and I was able to get by pretty well with just the app.
For a while I used TrackNShare to try to figure out what the patterns were in triggering flares of some of my health issues, but I, uh, sort of kept forgetting to enter data. So make of that what you will. The reporting isn't quite what I want yet either, though I think they're looking at it. There's no overlay of graphs for different things, you can look at them *next* to one another, but you have to mentally do the overlay yourself. But I mention it because I can see it being useful to someone whose brain works a little differently than mine.