In this month’s edition we
look at some apps which are useful to us professionally.
McKINSEY INSIGHTS
The McKinsey Insights
app offers business insights and analysis on the biggest issues facing senior
executives today – from leadership and corporate strategy to the future of work
and AI’s impact on business and society. In addition, explore new articles on
digitisation, marketing and analytics across industries such as consumer goods,
financial services and tech. In fresh content updated daily, McKinsey
consultants and contributing experts look at the latest in climate change,
diversity and inclusion in the workplace, organisational restructuring,
bringing data to bear on business strategy and more. Content includes articles
from McKinsey Quarterly, reports from the McKinsey Global Institute, podcasts
and videos.
This app allows you to
view recent and most popular content, save articles for offline reading and
register to personalise your app experience.
The best part is that all
content is free. Go ahead, get insights into your business and professional
world today!
Android: https://bit.ly/2Q1Un4TiOS:
https://apple.co/3l2fylN
LINKEDIN – SLIDESHARE
LinkedIn SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing
presentations and professional content, with 60 million unique visitors a month
and more than 15 million uploads. It is much more than just slides. Find
infographics, videos, how-to guides, data and analytics reports, industry
research, thought-leadership articles, Q&As, DIY instructions, visual
guides and more. You can follow companies and organisations like Dell, Ogilvy,
the White House, Netflix, NASA and more, who share their expertise on
SlideShare.
Students can use
SlideShare for academic research, professionals can deepen their industry
knowledge and everyone can explore interesting topics to learn something new.
You can save your
favourites to read later (even offline) on your phone or Android tablet. And
now you can even clip the best content on SlideShare and organise your research
into Clipboards, all in one place.
Android: http://bit.ly/2GpTq1PiOS:
https://apple.co/2Z3fjet
LAYOUT FROM INSTAGRAM: COLLAGE
This is a simple app which
allows you to stitch up to nine images together and load them onto Instagram.
Instagram allows you to add only one image at a time. However, sometimes you
may wish to combine multiple similar selfies or landscape shots to fit into one
collage picture. This app lets you do just that.
It also helps you tweak many
parameters for each photo, including the size, border width or zoom. You are
the editor, so feel free to experiment and get creative – tell a story, show
off an outfit, or just splice, dice and change the look of your regular photos
to convey a mood or theme.
The app also has three
handy buttons at the bottom to replace an image, mirror it or flip it upside
down. The final product can be quite neat and impressive. It can be further
enhanced by using Instagram’s native filters.
Android:
http://bit.ly/2L5glDI iOS: https://apple.co/2L5ljAl
TICKTICK
TickTick is a simple and effective to-do list and task manager
app which helps you make schedules, manage time, remind about deadlines and
organise life at work, home and everywhere else. It is very easy to get started
with its intuitive design and personalised features. Add tasks and reminders in
mere seconds and then focus on important work. The app syncs across devices, so
you are always up to date.
You can add your tasks by
voice input or by typing. With Smart Date Parsing, the date info you enter into the new field will be automatically set as due date for task reminder with an
alarm. You can set multiple notifications for important tasks and notes to
never miss any deadline.
You can even get easy
access to your tasks and notes by adding a checklist widget to your home
screen. That is pretty neat.
Android: http://bit.ly/2KF9uAG iOS:
https://apple.co/2N9Tp7R
INSTAPAPER
Instapaper is the simplest way to save and store articles for
reading: offline, on-the-go, anytime, anywhere, perfectly formatted. It
provides a mobile and tablet-optimised text view that makes reading Internet
content a clean and uncluttered experience. Read offline, even on airplanes,
subways, on elevators, or on Wi-Fi-only devices away from Internet connections.
It saves most web pages as text-only, stripping away the full-sized layout to
optimise for tablet and phone screens with adjustable fonts, text sizes, line
spacing and margins.
You
have the option to sort and search downloadable files for easy access. You can
download up to 500 articles on your phone or tablet and store unlimited
articles on the Instapaper website. Dictionary and Wikipedia lookups, tilt
scrolling, page-flipping, preview links in the built-in browser without leaving
the app are all available, just like in Kindle.
A great app to consume
content at your own time and space.
Android:
http://bit.ly/2FxujtG iOS: https://apple.co/2FAjrv5
I hope you will be able to use these apps
effectively to become more productive in your professional life.
