Ever since smartphones hit the scene almost a decade ago, there is an app for almost anything. Journalists have so much they have to stay on top of especially when working from their homes. Freelance journalists have found it increasingly difficult to get everything done they need to in a certain amount of time. Now they can accomplish what they need to with these apps I have listed. According to Catalina Albeanu:
Journalism.co.uk have put together a list of apps you can take with you everywhere to help you out every step of the way, from planning a story and recording interviews more efficiently, to monitoring the total time spent on each project.
These apps are:
1. Cogi : this app is for interviews that all journalists must conduct in order to put together a story.
combines note-taking with voice recording, allow you to record only the most important parts of a conversation to make transcribing more time-efficient.
Cogi is a good way to take good and efficent notes during interviews. As a journalists you never know what is going to be said in an interview and you want to make sure you get every last detail.
2. Fetchnotes: this app allows journalists to take notes and make to-do lists
To do lists are always an important way to stay on track. With a to do list app on one's phone getting certain goals and tasks accomplished could be a lot easier.
3. Hashnotes:
You can password-protect either selected notes only, or set the app to request a password on start-up. Hashnotes also lets you email notes, use dates as hashtags, and set up reminders through hashtags.
4. Vocal XL: is a reminder app combining voice memos and alarms
VoCal can be used to set regular reminders and create an audio to-do list, or to record story ideas and thoughts on the move and set an alarm at a later time to remind you of them.
5. Jiffy : this app is for time management. It helps keep track of how long a journalists spends on an assignment, almost like a stop-watch.
Time management is everything when it comes to getting work done. But many people have trouble with time management. The app jiffy can help with time management by logging how much time one spends on a topic.
6. Sunrise Calendar: is used to store multiple to-do lists in one location
7. Timeful:
When you're deep in the work zone, Timeful is a good app for reminding yourself to take breaks. It syncs with other calendars such as Google Calendar or iCal, and its scheduling recommendations get better the more you use the app.
8. Trello: the app for project management, which allows one to create "boards" for different types of projects.
9. Evernote:
Evernote is a great tool for organising notes and contacts, syncing across devices so you can access files saved on desktop from your mobile devices. Similarly, you can import images taken with your smartphone and upload them to your laptop through Evernote without having to spend more time transferring files.
In my opinion, evernote is a great tool. I use it to take class notes. Instead of taking notes and just keeping every day of class notes in one file, evernote allows you to separate notes by course. This way files are more organized.
10. Pushbullet: is a file transfer tool and once you are done typing you can send the file to your phone without missing that important call you must take.
These apps are all easily accessible with any smartphone or tablet and are all ways to help organize a professional's day to day busy and time consuming schedule. In this age of technology, possibilities are endless. Journalists and other professionals can get work done a lot easier and more efficently now with all of these new inovations.