Productivity apps for non-productive devices
The iPad is perfect as a “non-productivity” productivity item. You buy it thinking it will make you more efficient, but you end up using it to read the news on the couch at night or Facetime with your family on the weekends. It’s worth the expense, right?
As an iPad owner myself, I have to admit that I’ve been fooled in the past. I used to get an older one, but the version of iOS it was running wouldn’t run many of the apps I had, so I ended up having to upgrade. This was a huge drawback for Duolingo users, which at the time was my favorite language learning app. Being able to access it was also very important as I had just moved to a new country. Now you have a great excuse to upgrade.
Initially, I was using my brand new iPad for its intended purpose: learning a new language. But as I used it more, I became curious about what my favorite productivity apps looked like on the iPad. All in all, it wasn’t great. Most of the time I didn’t like his UX/UI and didn’t even see the point of using the app on another device since I had already organized everything on my laptop using tools like It was.
One app, one device
What works best for me is to only use a particular suite of tools on one particular device and not mix them. I only use Ticktick (my favorite productivity app of all time) on my laptop, and that’s fine. You don’t need to do anything on your phone or iPad. I use Notion in Chrome on my MacBook, but I don’t need it anywhere else.
With that in mind, I’ve developed an “iPad Tools Suite” for use only on the iPad. This article will introduce it. These apps center around productivity, time management, but also personal finance and self-improvement.
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