The Day Ahead: A Day in the Life Sunday

Popping Vitamin D with breakfast, I am looking forward to a day of nothing in particular.

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My nothings in particular include: coffee, Baileys and comfy socks, sappy Lifetime  movies, checking out Mike Henry's Lead Change Group, working on content and slides for a presentation, making Sesame-Ginger Chicken and a call with a friend. The kid has volleyball practice and if I play my car pool cards right, I may never even have to leave the house!

A Sunday with absolutely nothing to do doesn't exist in my life but it seems like a real day off if I do what I do in my yoga pants and fringe sweater robe.

What does the day ahead hold for you?

A Mish-Mash of Apps

One year ago today, give or take a few, the first major Apple product crossed the threshold of our home. Today, my iPad2 is competing for charging space with an iPhone, iPodTouch and a new iPad Mini.

We love the products but I know we are not using them to their full potential.  I appreciate the over 250,000 apps available but it's overwhelming. I am always on the look out for ways to increase my productivity.

Here are a few of the apps I am bouncing between. (Click app titles for links.)

• Reading: I am using Google Reader and Mr. Reader for RSS subscriptions. I like the Mr. Reader interface. When I find something on the web I want to read later, I am adding it to my iPad reading list.
  
• Writing: I am wandering amongst apps here - Moleskine and Evernote are downloaded but I still reach for pen and paper when I have thoughts to capture. I am not posting directly to the blogs and still use Word as my go to program but I am making the leap to Pages this weekend.
• Files: I am starting to work with Google Drive and Drop Box.
• Contacts: Between Verizon Backup Assist, Google Contacts, Google Contacts Sync and iCloud, I can't keep my lists straight to save my life.

I have yet to find my optimal grouping of apps for reading, writing and file storage. What works for you? What is one app you can't live without?