Over the years I have curated a collection of apps living on my home page. I think about these things more than I should; probably a lot more than most of my readers, so I hope some of my time might help you.
The icons above are my most commonly used apps. They are the ones I use to manage life;: remind me of appointments, remember tasks, and store and recall information I need.
The icons on the right are two programs I have already written about : Evernote and Keep. They are my note takers. Keep for quick & dirty, only need short time like shopping lists, reminders what to get when I make a food run, etc. They are notes I won’t need ever again.
Evernote is for the ones I need, or might need in the future. Scans of lab orders, online payment receipts, notes about phone calls, important emails, that sort of thing.
The camera is a major component of my note gathering. I take photos of gas pumps when done. I might lose a receipt, probably will, but I will not lose my phone. And even if I did, when I take a photo and it flows into Evernote it goes to the cloud. The camera gives me a scan of any document. For that lab order from the doctor, I take a photo of it before I leave the office. Same with eyeglass prescriptions and so on.
I use Google Calendar to track all my appointments. I have the good habit of entering in a new doctor’s appointment while the still standing at the office in the counter. I do not bother with those little reminder cards, I would only lose them.
Do too many of my examples use doctors? I’m at that age. Twenty years ago I’d have been tracking business trips, parent/teacher conferences and Scout trips.
The nice thing I like about Google Calendar is the Schedule view. You have the traditional month, weekly and day view, but Schedule shows you a sequential list of all your appointments.
And finally, the icon with the checkbox, that is Google Tasks. Task management is probably one of the most personal processes we do on our phones. Each of us want to do it differently. That is why there are probably hundreds of task management apps in the phone app stores.
Task management will make its own separate newsletter; probably several.