App/Service | Category | Mobile | Desktop | Notes |
Cloud Service | √ | √ | One of the linchpins of going paperless. Probably best-supported cloud service among mobile apps; Tip: You don’t really need the Dropbox app for most purposes | |
Google Apps | Cloud Service | √ | √ | Could easily be used as the single cloud service for going paperless. |
Google Drive | Cloud Service | √ | √ | Google Drive has become ubiquitous and is an option supported by many mobile apps as a cloud storage location. |
√ | √ | Still the best for capturing, organizing and accessing your important information | ||
Scanner Pro | Document scanning w. your camera | √ | Improves on simply taking photos of a receipt or whiteboard by including tools to tweak the image; also allows capturing multi-page docs into a single file (PDF). | |
TinyScan | Similar to Scanner Pro | √ | Scans are saved to your phone as images or PDFs. Name and organize your scans into folders, or share them via Dropbox, Evernote, etc. | |
Password/security | √ | √ | Excellent solution to the catch-22 of choosing and using good passwords | |
Task manager | √ | √ | A nice middle ground between the relatively stark Google Tasks and a Cadillac offering like Omnifocus. | |
Task manager | √ | Free app brings your Google tasks to iOS | ||
Task manager | √ | √ | Supported on all platforms, including web. | |
PDF/document manager | √ | Good at handling a wide variety of doc formats, good large-document handling, connects to largest number of cloud services | ||
PDF/document manager, note-taking | √ | Remarks is remarkable for it’s freehand note-taking ability. If you have a stylus and prefer to write long-hand, take a look at Remarks. | ||
PDF/document manager, note-taking | √ | Excellent hybrid of free-hand notes/drawing, with PDF management. | ||
RSS reader | √ | Presents items in a visually appealing way. | ||
News, social media aggregator | √ | Flipboard stitches together a magazine from your various feeds. Great way to discover new things. | ||
Read later service | √ | √ | Look for Pocket integration in other apps for quick way to capture items you see that you want to read later | |
Read later service | √ | Very similar to Pocket. Send to Kindle option can be huge, if you’re a Kindle owner. |