2016 will be a year for driving productivity apps forward…

In 2015, productivity apps and tools have been starting to think more towards being “insightful” with the feedback and output of information. As well as forming collaborations with other tools on the productivity block.

To start with, here are few examples of intelligent activity in 2015:

Evernote’s contextual notes

Contextual notes allow you to go deeper when inside a note. The Evernote technology will scan over your note using AI (augmented intelligence) and feedback with related articles, LinkedIn accounts and relevant material across your Evernote account that matches your potential next actions after being within this note.

This was announced at November 2014’s Evernote conference and rolled out in December 2014 on Android, iOS, Mac and PC applications.

I’m not entirely sure how many people are using it however after chatting hours with people on social media. I’m not sure this is a very focal point for the service. If I’m asked “what’s the best feature in Evernote” and reply with “contextual” services… I actually tend to be forgetting about this one as it sits at the bottom of my notes.

Todoist & Wunderlist’s Intelligent Input

This “Intelligent Input” feature within Todoist & Wunderlist allow you to take advantage of your keyboard laziness and lack of time.

Essentially you can input activity by adding shortened versions of the task name, task dates and context (project priority, labels and more). It’ll instantly categorise this and put it into your feed of activities.

I’ve done a video on both of these and how they are used in practice - Todoist II and Wunderlist II.

Fantastical 2

Another service Fantastical (review attached), a calendar application for organising appointments and activities allows you to

In the same way you input short sharp inputs into Todoist, with Fantastical 2 you can add your events, it understands and blend them into your system. It’s very neat and such a time saver in the scheme of things…

https://flexibits.com/fantastical

Today I wanted to take a look at Trello.