Lifehacker's Best Android Productivity Apps of 2017

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

New and improved old apps that simplify work tasks and help improve personal productivity.

Automate

Automate allows you to program the device to perform certain actions and thereby eliminates the need to waste time on the same routine things. Using the application, you can create complex chains of commands with different conditions and alternative tasks.

More than 300 actions are available in Automate, including opening and closing applications, playing music, activating vibration and adding events to the calendar.

Yandex Browser Lite

The minimalistic version of the browser from Yandex offers access to all the basic functions of its older brother. At the same time, it takes up a minimum of space in the smartphone's memory and works quickly even on old devices. On the home page, you get access to personalized articles from the Zen service. There is also a panel with bookmarks and the most necessary settings like clearing the cache and cookies.

Lanes

The service combines a task manager and a Pomodoro timer. They are closely related to each other: for example, when you add a task, you can immediately start the countdown of its completion. There is a section with data on your productivity from which you can find out which days and hours you work best. Lanes also has a convenient and even more functional web version.

Adobe Scan

The app doesn't just scan your documents - it does it neatly and quickly. It is possible to crop and rotate images and align colors. You can almost fully continue to work with the text through Adobe Acrobat: copy it, underline it, add notes. The only thing you can't do is edit.

1Password

1Password is a multi-platform program for storing passwords and other data like bank cards. The service creates unique passwords for reliable protection of different accounts and allows you to easily share them with friends, relatives and colleagues.

This year, 1Password introduced Travel Mode, designed to help protect information when traveling overseas. When enabled, all specially marked keystores are deleted from all devices. This way, law enforcement officers will not be able to view them. Later, passwords can be recovered through the browser.

Telegram

One of the fastest, safest and not overloaded with unnecessary messengers capabilities. Initially, only correspondences were protected in the service, but in 2017 voice calls with end-to-end encryption support also came.

Last year, the messenger developers did their best. The long list of innovations includes the reading mode, video messages, the ability to delete sent messages, official support for the Russian language and much more.

Day by Day

The application greatly simplifies the achievement of the set goals. You add an action that you want to perform at a certain frequency, and then each time you perform it, put a mark on a special scale. Over time, continuous chains begin to bring you pleasure, and the gaps in them only cause annoyance.

Day by Day can remind you of important things every day and allows you to add text marks to the days of the week.

Trello

Trello is a fast project management platform built on a board system and pinned cards. The service provides almost endless possibilities in the field of organizing work tasks due to the flexible configuration of elements. How you present your project to employees depends a lot on your imagination.

Trello launched desktop clients for macOS and Windows in September. This makes it even more convenient to control the execution of tasks from different devices.

Tinycards

Service for quickly memorizing foreign words from the developers of Duolingo. The application prompts you to select a set of cards on which different words appear. You have to memorize them, and the program will periodically ask for their meaning. Among the topics of the cards are both standard geography and history, as well as more specific ones like Game of Thrones.

Previously, Tinycards was available only on iOS and as a web version, but at the end of August it appeared on Android - with 200 thousand sets of cards at once.

Microsoft To-Do

A task manager that appeared as a result of Microsoft's purchase of the Wunderlist service. Microsoft To-Do has retained many of the features of its predecessor, and in addition acquired integration with many of the Redmond giant's products like Office 365 and Outlook.

In Microsoft To-Do, you create tasks, organize them into lists, and set due dates. There is also a unique intelligent function "Suggestions". She analyzes the calendar and suggests doing the most important things. The service is perfect for both home use and work projects.