I am not sure why Apple didn’t design a better way to deal with Contact Groups, File and Information Sharing, Calendar and ToDo apps in the iPhone OS. If you own an iPhone you may be wondering the same thing. The built-in apps fall short of providing stellar convenience, ease of use and technology. Apple may not have realized the potential the iPhone offers users when they designed apps for their OS. Either that or their designers are not as creative as the public sector.
If you came to this article hoping to find why Apple didn’t do a better job designing built-in apps, stop reading now. I do not know the answer. However, I do have an opinion on some apps that may help resolve issues where Apple failed in the Calendar, Note-taking and ToDo areas.
SaiSuke is about the best Calendar app out. It is as user-friendly as an app can get. It is straight forward, easy to use and gets the calendaring job done. It syncs with Google Calendar making it very convenient. The fact that you can copy events in your calendar and quickly paste them to future dates in just a few taps makes it even more convenient and user-friendly. The app provides users the ability to drag and move events in the daily view is extremely nice and saves time opening and editing. There are tons more features packed into this app that make it the best calendar app available so far.
As for Note-taking, Tanzaku, although not the best note-taking app, is the best one available that allows a user to use their finger or a specially designed iPhone pen to write notes and then store them in an endless hierarchy of folders that can be viewed in any position the user holds the iPhone. Users can also zoom in and out while viewing documents and folders using the same pinch finger-gesture. I love this app when taking notes because I can write faster than I can type on the iPhone.
Two other Note-taking apps are Awesome Note and Appigo Todo. They do an excellent job at recording Notes and ToDos allowing users to keep track of ideas, events and notes. However, none of them do a perfect job either. There are features that other apps have that, if available in these apps, they would be much better
One more very good app is called Organizer. It does a great job at what it was designed for. This app allows users to organize Calendar Events, Record Voice Memos, Draw, insert Photos, Contacts and Emoticons as well as cut, copy and paste. It is an amazing Calendar, Organizer and ToDo app, although, if previously mentioned features were built into this app, it would probably be the most sought after app in the iTunes store.
Apple needs to create a built-in app that has features from these five apps. If they did that, every iPhone user would have exactly what they need in their phone to create Calendar Events, ToDos and Notes, and keep themselves organized better than any other competition.
As for Contact Groups and File Sharing, there are apps out there that do a better job of organizing contact groups and sharing files, but they are not built into the iPhone so they only work well if other users have them pre-installed. Apple would do well to include apps like Bump and ABContacts and add functions that allow users to organize their groups and contacts from within the iPhone, not just off their desktop or mobile computers. Organizing groups is one of the most necessary features the iPhone is missing.
Sure there are tons of other apps available, but you and I have most likely downloaded them and already given them a try and found out that they lack even more features than the ones I’ve mentioned here today. For now, if you don’t already have these apps, download them and install them. You’ll be a much happier iPhone user once you do.
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