5 GREAT FREE APPS TO USE THE MOMENT YOU WAKE UP
TACKLE EMAIL, SCHEDULING, NEWS, COMMUTES, AND MORE.
Nowadays,
you can get a lot done before you’re even vertical in the morning. Here are a
handful of apps to thumb through while you’re shaking off sleep and getting
ready to start your day.
1. DOUSE THOSE OVERNIGHT
FIRES
You
sleep. The rest of the world doesn’t. Ergo, you’ll have a virtual truckload of
email waiting for you. CloudMagic (Android, iOS) makes short work
of it, piping into just about any mail service and featuring an interface built
to get things done. It’s a useful tool first thing in the morning, letting you
save messages as actionable items to services such as Evernote, OneNote, Salesforce.com,
Instapaper, and a bunch of other apps.
2. SHORE UP YOUR SCHEDULE
If
you use Google Calendar, CalenMob (Android, iOS) hooks into it
and serves as not only a fresh coat of paint, but as a feature-filled upgrade
to existing functionality. There are a handful of useful views to choose from,
offline caching, multiple reminder options, and several other extras. Event
creation is a snap as well.
3. FIND THE FORECAST
Sometimes
you just want the weather without a million other features. In that case, Yahoo
Weather (Android, iOS) is an easy
recommendation. The app itself is beautiful, pulling in condition-based photos
from Yahoo’s Flickr photo service and sporting a quick top-to-bottom scroll
that covers current conditions, the hourly forecast, multiday forecasts, maps,
and a few other items. Not too much, not too little, and all housed within a
slick interface.
You
can’t lay in bed all morning reading news, but you can get a good sense of
what’s going on in a minute or two. SmartNews (Android, iOS) crushes through
millions of articles from popular publishers and bubbles the most talked-about
ones to the front of the line. Articles are preloaded for instant access and
work offline in order to keep things moving along quickly.
The
Weather Channel’s Commuter Forecast (Web) is a dead-simple
Google Maps wrapper that lets you see how long you’ll be stuck in traffic.
Enter your starting and ending points, your departure time, and whether you
want to avoid highways or toll roads, and you’ll get a view showing the
quickest route and how long it’ll take, along with alternate routes.
Android
users should check out SolCalendar(Android), a multicalendar app with a gorgeous
interface that leverages unique stickers to denote various events.
BY DOUG AAMOTH
http://www.fastcompany.com/3053456/app-economy/5-great-free-apps-to-use-the-moment-you-wake-up?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fast-company-daily-newsletter&position=3&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=11132015
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