These 7 DLN-Recommended Productivity Tools Will Transform How You Work
Discover top productivity apps recommended by DLN members to enhance your efficiency and streamline your workflow.
Discover top productivity apps recommended by DLN members to enhance your efficiency and streamline your workflow.
We’ve all been there—you’re slogging through a supposedly simple task that takes a lifetime, and after you waste all those hours, a friend tells you, “there’s an app for that.” At the DLN, you have more than 500 friends and colleagues to help avoid those heart-wrenching time-sucks, whose tech hacks can enhance your firm’s overall productivity and efficiency. These future-forward apps promise to make your work smarter, from communicating with clients to selecting colors, managing your team to tracking how the sunlight falls in a client’s space. For more software and app ideas, head to the Insiders Guide.
Recommended by Catherine Kwong
Constant, low-priority emails get in the way of a productive work day. With Spark Mail, you can highlight important contacts, group emails by sender, and bundle non-priority emails to declutter your inbox, without missing an essential email.
Recommended by Donna Mondi
With Harvest, users track time across projects, so that you (and your clients) can see exactly how your time is spent. The app also allows you to track project spending and payments—as well as create and send invoices—seamlessly.
Recommended by Joy Moyler and Noz Nozawa
Asana is all about improving your team’s workflow, even as you navigate numerous complex projects. Organize project components and assign tasks to team members, who can communicate about assignments within specified threads. We even use it internally at Team DLN.
Recommended by Klaus Bauer
Many designers and architects are visual people—you like to see on paper how a project will come together, not just type it out in a document. Lucidchart allows you to map out projects and processes using visually compelling diagrams, bringing your ideas to life.
Recommended by Shannon Wollack
If you’re already a fan of the pen-and-paper to-do list, you might be ready to upgrade to the digital version. Using Todoist, you can schedule out tasks in advance within various folders and receive notifications when it’s time to tackle a particular assignment.
Recommended by Suzanne Tucker
Created by a person with color blindness, Cone relies on a user’s phone camera to capture and match colors in the real world to Pantone swatches. Once you identify colors, you can store them in a built-in library to employ in future projects.
Recommended by Janice Parker
If you need to know where sunlight will hit and when, download Sun Seeker. With the app, you can follow the sun’s hourly direction intervals and use 3D augmented reality to view the solar position and path.
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