7 iOS Organizational Apps I Love

Organizationally I'm at best mediocre. But getting an iPhone has been a huge step in getting my act together.

Here's 7 organizational apps I've been loving:

1. Google Drive

I love Google Drive... eat it Dropbox!

With it you can store any files on the cloud (basically a hard drive on the internet); videos, PDF’s, .exe files, Microsoft Word docs, etc… 15 gigs are free, you can access it with internet, it can sync with multiple computers, and there are free memory upgrades at times. Currently, I can access my high school senior project from 2005 anywhere I have an Internet connection with my phone. Is this necessary? Nope. But there are also a number of random files I can access if necessary, such as insurance info, notes I might need to share, etc.

Cost: 15 gigs free. 100 GB for $4.99/month (about half the cost of competitor Dropbox).

2. Turbo Scan

TurboScan interface, super easy!

Use this app to scan in printed documents with your iPhone camera, then it turns them into a PDF.

What’s best is that you can upload it to your Google Drive app so that you never have to keep a hard file ever again! I’m terrible about keeping a physical file, but with this app I’m storing all of my files digitally. The best part? Paired with Google Drive this syncs to my computer desktop automatically!

I’ve tried a number of these scanners with my iPhone, this one is by far the best.

Cost: $2.99, well worth it!

3. Audio Memos

I’ve used this app super regularly to record any audio stuff I might need to access later. This is especially helpful if you don’t have anything you can easily take notes on. College students, this works great for lectures. You can easily upload this to Google Drive from your phone, and share it with a friend, boss, or coworker.

Cost: There’s a free version, the .99 cent version is well worth it!

4. Go Tasks

This is a simple task list, which can sync up with Google Tasks. Google Tasks is a little known and used feature, which pops up in your Gmail online interface. To access a simple task interface in your Gmail you need to click on the Gmail icon in the top left corner in your Gmail account, this drops down and you can click on Tasks and up pops a task list!

If I don’t have an actual task list, things run through my head all day on my day off, making it hard to relax. As soon as I put work tasks on my task list, I can easily put off thinking about it until the next day.

Cost: Free!

5. Freaky Alarm

Here's what the alarm interface looks like.
My wife hates it when I use this, but it's
effective in waking you up!

I love sleep. I love sleep like the chubby kid loves chocolate cake. Also, I’m the chubby kid. Do you HAVE to wake up at a certain time but have a really hard time waking up? Get this app! Basically, the alarm is a series of terrible noises, and there are a series of complicated problems you must solve to turn the alarm off. There are also a number of levels you can set for this alarm; level one is fairly easy to turn off and level five will make you want to punch someone by the time you turn it off (but you are most definitely awake!).

Cost:$1.99.

6. Google Voice

I hate listening to voicemail messages. Many times I refuse to listen to voicemail messages and just call someone back (and leave them a long complicated voicemail message to return the favor!). You can setup Google Voice to be your voicemail client and it will transcribe voicemails so that you never have to listen to one ever again! It’s not always super accurate, but it’s easy to get the big idea for voicemail messages.

Also, you can utilize this account as a work voicemail, so that potential clients aren’t calling your personal cell number, but the free one that Google provides.

Cost: Free!

7. Apple Calendar

If someone isn’t reminding me about events, I basically just don’t show up. The calendar app has been a butt saver. A smart way to utilize this is as soon as a potential calendar item is proposed, instead of letting it run through your mind all day, just put it on the calendar so that you can easily forget about it and come back to the event later. What’s also great is that you can set multiple reminders up to a week in advance so that you don’t forget.

What’s also great about this, is that you can utilize a Google Calendar, which I think is way better, and sync it with the Apple Calendar on your iPhone.

Cost: It’s already on your iPhone. Just stinking use it!!!

What's your organizational apps of choice? Let me know!

Does God Exist? 4 Videos to Introduce You to This Important Question!

The first video is quite brief, and the following are long. It's easy to not be willing to do the work in watching these videos, but this topic is incredibly important, don't be lazy in dealing with this issue!

1. A brief breakdown of the Kalam Cosmological Argument for God's existence.

2. William Lane Craig and the late Christopher Hitchens debate on God's existence.

3. Tim Keller lectures on his book Reason for God at Google and then responds to questions.

4. Hasn't Stephen Hawking buried the need for God's existence in his book The Grand Design? See William Lane Craig respond to this book.