Parker Planner
Who couldn’t use a little help staying organized? If “a little” help is all you need, Parker Planner for iPhone (99 cents) is a decent app to add to your daily routine. Parker Planner is a calendar, to-do list, and note-taking app all in one.
After spending a few days with it, I found it was too light for my needs, but I’m what you might call a hardcore list maker and scheduler—I even write a weekly column aboutgetting organized. Parker Planner gives you a centralized view on its home screen of your day, previewing your hourly calendar, five most recently added to-do tasks, and a small window for notes and ideas. My particular needs call for much more detail in all three of these areas, and a better representation of time in the calendar, but for less seriously organized people, the app does an acceptable job.
My preferred iPhone app for maintaining more advanced schedules, to-do lists, and notes is Awesome Note (+ToDo) ($3.99, 4 stars). Alternatively, you could use apps that come included with your iPhone, such as Calendar and Reminders (preinstalled with iOS 5). Both of those apps work well and are designed in a way that makes them simple to use. What you lose with Apple’s apps is centralization in a single app, although that might not be a concern for light list-makers and schedulers.
Who couldn’t use a little help staying organized? If “a little” help is all you need, Parker Planner for iPhone (99 cents) is a decent app to add to your daily routine. Parker Planner is a calendar, to-do list, and note-taking app all in one.
After spending a few days with it, I found it was too light for my needs, but I’m what you might call a hardcore list maker and scheduler—I even write a weekly column aboutgetting organized. Parker Planner gives you a centralized view on its home screen of your day, previewing your hourly calendar, five most recently added to-do tasks, and a small window for notes and ideas. My particular needs call for much more detail in all three of these areas, and a better representation of time in the calendar, but for less seriously organized people, the app does an acceptable job.
My preferred iPhone app for maintaining more advanced schedules, to-do lists, and notes is Awesome Note (+ToDo) ($3.99, 4 stars). Alternatively, you could use apps that come included with your iPhone, such as Calendar and Reminders (preinstalled with iOS 5). Both of those apps work well and are designed in a way that makes them simple to use. What you lose with Apple’s apps is centralization in a single app, although that might not be a concern for light list-makers and schedulers.
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