Small Business Tips
Best Organization Apps for Small Business Owners
Between managing staff and day-to-day operations, many small business owners lose track of important tasks or meetings, documents, and even their sanity! But you don't have to get comfortable with chaos in the office. In fact, you can download the solution to everyday disarray through one of many business organization apps on the market.
Read on for a list of the best organization apps for small business owners.
Microsoft To-Do
Swap out your complicated daily workflow for a trimmed-down to-do list with Microsoft To-Do (iOS, Android). The task management and note-taking app that integrates with Microsoft Outlook lets you create custom agenda items ranging from attending meetings to picking up the kids after school and will then help you remember, plan for and share your to-dos with family members or friends. Furthermore, smart features such as "Suggestions" help you prioritize must-dos over do-later tasks so that you can make the most of every hour of every day.
Evernote
One of the best organization apps for small business owners for ten years running, Evernote (iOS, Android) consolidates photos, web pages, notes, to-dos, audio snippets and other files you access the most into a convenient digital format. Best of all, endlessly scrolling for the file you want becomes history because the search feature finds your files instantly.
As a bonus for business owners that must stay on top of their records, you can use the camera of your smartphone to scan sensitive documents and then keep the digitized files open to your eyes only with the app's passcode lock feature.
Wunderlist
The ability to create and set due dates, times, and reminders for to-dos? Check. The option to sort your to-dos into lists based on their functional area? Check. An intuitive and aesthetically pleasing interface? Check.
Wunderlist (iOS, Android) does everything you could expect from a task management app plus a host of fancy features.
Business owners with complex to-dos, with interdependencies on others, will appreciate how everything gets coordinated. Add notes or to-dos, create subtasks or assign out to your teammates the tasks that you can't get to yourself. Wunderlist will help your whole organization get organized.
