Organization Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily iPad App: 2Do

by Mike Schramm (Oct 11th, 2011)

I'm not exactly the paradigm of organization -- it took me years to get a regular calendar set up and working, my email inbox is usually a mess of various reminders and things that need replying to, and my present to-do system is usually just whatever piece of paper I can grab in real life and ...

Video App Demo: VideoBot Camera

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 15th, 2011)

Do you find it hard to sort through the videos on your iOS device? Apple didn't give users any organizational tools to speak of, unless you count alphabetical sorting. The lack of folders or any method for making sense of your video library can be a pain, so VideoBot hopes to make it ...

Paperless: A solid, easily customizable document manager for OS X

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 5th, 2011)

There are several bloggers here at TUAW who are slowly moving toward a paperless office. Steve Sande has had the best success, sharing some of what he's learned about culling out the piles of paper in his freelance business. However, it doesn't stop reams of paper from entering your life, or ...

The paperless office: How to get there (and a discount e-book offer)

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2011)

Last Wednesday on TUAW TV Live, I discussed my success over the past year at moving towards the ultimate goal of a paperless office. I thought it would be a good idea for me to pass along some of the methods I've been using to accomplish this elusive goal, and also offer a deal to our readers for an ...

iCollect Movies HD catalogs your movie collection on your iPad

by David Quilty (Nov 15th, 2010)

MacMegasite reports that Hooked In Motion has released the iCollect Movies HD 1.0 app (US$4.99), which lets movie fanatics catalog their Blu-ray, DVD, HD DVD, UMD, VHS, Betamax, and Laserdisc collection right on their iPad. While the iPhone version, iCollect Movies Pro ($2.99), can use its camera to ...

iTunes bankruptcy, step one: The Great Purge

by TJ Luoma (Oct 8th, 2010)

I'll admit it was a problem that I had created myself: I had moved my iTunes library from one computer to another. Then I tried syncing it across two computers. Add in a bunch of music from SXSW, along with other music given to me along the way, and before I knew it, my iTunes library was a 160GB ...

Report: Foxconn making 1.5 iPhones per second

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2010)

137,000 iPhones per day. That's how many manufacturer Foxconn is reportedly making these days, its chairman tells the press. That's an amazing figure adding up to 50 million iPhones every single year, even as Apple struggles to keep enough hardware in stock. And the process isn't easy, either -- ...

Announcing Trunk, an app store for Evernote

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 14th, 2010)

Evernote announced a new extension to their platform today, Trunk. It's essentially an App Store for Evernote, highlighting applications, hardware and platforms created by third parties which integrate with Evernote in various ways. Trunk offers easy access to new tech for users, as well as a means ...

The iPhone app showdown

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2010)

This was an intriguing experiment undertaken over at Minimal Mac: Patrick decided to play a little Homescreen Survivor with his iPhone app icons -- he cleared everything off his homescreen, and then only let those apps back on which he used more than once throughout the course of a week. The result? ...

"Cinch" your desktop windows into place

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 18th, 2009)

Cinch is a new Mac utility from Irradiated Software. It helps keep your desktop windows organized by snapping them into predefined sizes and locations when you hold them near an edge of your screen. While its toolset is limited in comparison to its big sister, the keyboard-based SizeUp (which we ...

5 smart albums to help you organize your iPhoto library

by Sang Tang (Nov 6th, 2009)

Like smart playlists in iTunes, smart albums in iPhoto provide a way for you to better organize your photos. Whether it's a list of your most recent photos or photos with a specified aperture range, there are countless smart albums you could create to fit your needs. Here are a few of my ...

Friday Favorite: FolderGlance

by David Winograd (Oct 9th, 2009)

FolderGlance 2.55, for Snow Leopard only, is a very useful preference pane that adds a number of additions to the Finder. The simplest and most basic thing it does is to add an expanded contextual menu to any folder when the folder is right (or control, or two-finger) clicked. If there are ...

iTunes 9 Focus: Tips for editing your iPhone apps screens

by Erica Sadun (Sep 10th, 2009)

While of my colleagues are tremendously excited about Norah Jones and iTunes LP, I've got to say I was far happier to discover the new iTunes 9 iPhone application management screens that Brett touched on yesterday (Sorry, Dave!). Located in the Applications tab for each iPhone and iPod touch ...

Microsoft offers video tips on organizing with Office

by Michael Rose (Jul 9th, 2009)

Ah, summertime; the kids are out of school, the pace drops back from 'overdrive' to 'merely hectic,' and you finally have the opportunity to tackle the giant looming crisis that is your personal state of disorganization. Perhaps I'm projecting a little bit. Anyway, if you're looking for a bit of ...

Evernote meets Curio, you save some money

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 12th, 2009)

Right around Macworld-time, Zengobi released Curio 5.4, which included a healthy dose of Evernote integration. I had fallen for Evernote before I really figured out Curio, but lately I've found both to be key elements in my organization arsenal. I especially like Evernote's mobile capabilities and ...