APPS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER IN 2020
A couple years ago, I shared a few apps that have made my life easier. Since then, I’ve been introduced to some other great apps. I hope they will make your life easier, too. SPLITWISE For those of you familiar with my wife, Caitlin, you know she loves to travel. Whenever she travels with her friends, they use the Splitwise app to sort out all of the communal costs of the group trip. I experienced the convenience of Splitwise when Caitlin and I traveled to Europe with our friends in September. Here’s how it works: Whenever someone pays for a trip cost (dinner, rental car, Airbnb reservation, etc.), they log the cost into the app. You can select the trip members for each cost. So, if half of you go to a nice dinner and the other half go to a show, you can log the dinner costs to only be split by the dinner attendees, and likewise for the show.
At the end of the trip, when all the costs are logged, you hit the “Settle Up” button. The app then calculates who owes who what. The app also works with many payment apps and sends a request to them to settle the costs. I definitely enjoyed the ease of not having to do any calculations and not having to constantly run to the ATM to square up with cash. SUMMIT: DAILY PLANNER To be the most efficient with my time away from work, I have found that I need to outline what tasks I have to do and when I will have time to do them. Recently, the Summit app has helped me stay on track with my nonwork things that I need to get done. The app is probably best described as a hybrid to-do list and calendar. Inside the app, I can lay out all of the things I need to get done in a given week (or month). Then, I look at my work calendar and assign each task for a particular day when it looks like I have enough time to get it done. So, if I know I will
be out of town for depositions on a Monday or Tuesday, I can assign workouts or grocery shopping to other days that week. For me, it keeps me honest. Plus, the app allows me to easily reassign tasks for a different day if life gets in the way of my plans. – Pat Cummings
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