6 Cutting-edge Personal Tasking Apps

A collection of the most recently released personal mobile tasking apps to date.

December 23, 2013 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Kennedy
Brendan Dawes
$1.99
Rating: 4+
Requirements: iOS 7.0 or later.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5

With a single tap Kennedy will capture your location, the date and time, the current weather conditions, the latest world news headlines together with what music you’re listening to at the time. Add a note or a photo and then save it to the archive of captured moments. Use the archive to relive past moments. Remember where you were when that big news event happened, or show all those moments when it was raining or when you were listening to that much loved song.

All the data that Kennedy captures can be easily exported as an industry standard JSON or CSV file so if you love to code you can create your own data visualisations or import them into online data viz tools.

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Orange Diary Pro
m-Surf Lab
$1.99
Rating: 4.5
Requirements: Android 2.3.3 and Up

Orange Diary is an easy-to-use daily journal app that helps you organize all your ideas and information in your phone. Orange Diary lets you take journal entries, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice, etc.

Key Features:

Manage entries using:

Multi level folders
Tags
Icons
Entry calendar
Trash bin
Reminder (Sound alarm, status notification)
Template
Attachment

Customize:

Background colors
Font
Date/time/currency format
Text color
Text size

Import & Export:

Import from File (Text and CSV format)
Import from Google Drive
Export to Email/Text/li>
Export to Google Drive (Spreadsheet and Document format)
Export to Google Calendar (individual entry)
Export to Google Blogger (individual entry)

Backup & Restore:

Scheduled backup
Online backup (Dropbox)
Data transfer

Others:

App widget (4x1)
Passcode lock
Simple task list
Simple expense list

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HeyDay
Hey, Inc
Free
Rating: 4+
Requirements: iOS 6.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5

Heyday transforms the photos and videos on your iPhone into a beautiful journal, presenting you with a delightful way to rediscover your most important memories. And since life happens when you least expect it, Heyday automatically chronicles the places you go and the things you see so you’ll never forget a meaningful place or moment again.

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Flava
Greenmonster, Inc.
Free
Rating: 4.4
Requirements: Varies with Device

Capture your moments with Flava. Flava is private note/journal application with personal timeline to seize your life by moments.

Key Features:

Text, photo, voice, video, location data, book/music/movie libraries, URL available for composition of a single page entry all at the same time
Thematic icon & text tagging for fast and easy organization of pages
Auto replay showing pictures from past moments with nice background music
Exportation of selected pages of pictures within Flava timeline via facebook and twitter.
In-app PIN lock and various sub features including photo geotagging & date stamping option

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Day One
Bloom Built, LLC
$2.99
Rating: 4+
Requirements: iOS 7.0 or later.
Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5

Record life as you live it. From once-in-a-lifetime events to everyday moments, Day One’s elegant interface makes journaling your life a simple pleasure.

Key Features:

Clean, distraction-free interface
Multi-Markdown text formatting
Full screen mode
Privacy passcode lock
Photographic entries
Each Day One entry automatically tracks:
- Photo EXIF data
- Temperature and weather data
- Locations (GPS and Foursquare Places)
- Time and date
- Activity data - Motion and step count (iPhone 5s)
- Music playing
Customized writing reminders
Inspirational quotes and questions (Mac version)
Search by keyword
Create tags and #hashtags
Star favorite entries

Browse past entries by calendar, timeline, maps, and more

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SomNote
Wizard Works
Free
Rating: 4.6
Requirements: Android 2.2 and Up

Somnote is a free, simple, and easy-to-use note taking app. With this app, you can instantly jot down and save all your ideas and tasks, and it will always be with you like your own shadow cloud. Somnote is designed to be simple yet powerful, acquiring only the features for note taking from home, work, or on the go.

Key Features:

Sketchbook: scribble, attach and share
The Look: A gorgeous user interface offering eye candy for your everyday note taking
Work effective: Organize your thoughts to customized folders and with supported diverse view mode
Can’t just have words in your book:Attach any files, documents, photos to your notes up to 100mb
Share with friends: save your notes and send via facebook, twitter, and email
Cost?: So demanding with all the features you need for a note and its FREE
Manage: create and edit your notes and update them mutually as your thoughts are updated
Safety is everything: Pin protection applicable to lock your SomNote app
Go green! Recycle: Find, restore your lost or old notes from the recycle bin
History tab: work off your previous notes saved by time and date
Timing: Keyword search to quickly find notes from your list, notes completely searchable
Print tab: You can print your note directly in SomNote

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As the mobile market moves swiftly towards personal networking as the focus of most apps regardless their purpose, it makes sense that the newest apps on any marketplace serve a more personal purpose than just simple mobile utilities.

Personal tasking apps offer a whole new take on the idea of a personal device. These apps organize your schedule and user experience based on your geo-location, personal entertainment and social trends as well as commerce decisions, to provide the user with a completely personal networked mobile utility.

The recently released Kennedy, is the quintessence of the robust personal tasking and organization apps. Kennedy captures your location, the date and time, the current weather conditions and the latest world news headlines. The app allows you to add personal notes and captured media along with the social indicators of your choice, and archive both inputs simultaneously so you can collect all of your important information in one place.

With precise tagging options, you can access any of your files within the archives at anytime—giving you the opportunity to share content with peers or maintain tabs on a personal or professional project.

Great tasking apps give you the tools you need to manage your busy schedule. Alongside there effective design, they also allow you to engage with the app in various ways, ensuring that the utilities hold up with the most social and serious users.

The following collection highlights some of the most robust personal tasking and organization apps on the market now. Released within the past month, these apps embrace the most cutting edge standards.

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