Get Organized! 20 Apps for Simplifying Every Part of Your Life

Finally there’s an easy excuse for tossing that not-so-cute filing cabinet from your home office. It’s doxo Mobile, a digital filing chest. This one-stop shop storage unit is a centralized place for housing the usual suspects, like your marriage certificate, past Crate & Barrel credit card statements and decades-old tax filings. Snap a picture of the document, and file it into its proper place.

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Between his after-work meet-ups and your out-of-town conferences (oh, and let’s not forget the kids’ schedules), feeling in sync with your husband can be tough. Dubbed “the central hub for your relationship” app, SimplyUs coordinates the hectic lives of busy twosomes into one master calendar with one simple step: adjoining your shared schedules from Google or Outlook, for instance.

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Whether it’s a getaway to your folks’ house or an exotic excursion, we’ve all forgotten to pack a crucial item for an upcoming trip. Thanks to Packing (+To Do!), we may never make this misstep again. The app lets you create packing lists from a detailed sample checklist or from scratch. Plus, it deters you from over-packing by including an estimated weight of your packed belongings.

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Snap, save and share your favorite, compliment-worthy outfits with Cloth -- the app that turns your closet into a personalized look-book. Take a picture of your ensemble facing a mirror or use your phone’s front-facing camera, then upload. File each gem away into organized categories, like Everyday or Vacation, and use ‘em for the future.

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Has your in-box turned into a recipe box? Organize your favorite meals in one spot with KeepRecipes, the bookmarking app devoted only to food. Similar to Pinterest, this app features trending recipes near you and recipes from famous foodies, like Bobby Flay’s Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich and Giada De Laurentiis’ Olive Oil Muffins. Hit the “Keep it!” button and it saves the dish in your “My Recipes” box.

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We love coupons, except when they pile up on the kitchen table or mask the refrigerator door. SnipSnap transforms clippings into their mobile equivalent complete with a picture, the discount, retailer and expiration date, all with the simple snap of a photo. Averse to scissors and dotted lines? Discover and add available offers to your coupons list from the app.

Inspirational quotes, pictures of white sand beaches, the perfect house -- all those things Oprah encouraged you to write in a notebook, tack to the wall or plaster to a corkboard. Put your dreams in one spot -- minus the glue, tape and thumbtacks -- with Corkulous, a portable vision board. Tap the icons to add sticky notes, contacts, photos, index cards and voila!

Whether you’re going on a business trip or a vacation with the fam, Tripit is the go-to personal assistant for organizing travel plans. Email flight itineraries, hotel confirmations, scheduled car rentals, restaurant reservations and more to plans@tripit.com and they are instantly uploaded -- and we mean within seconds -- into the app.

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Receipts are a wallet’s worst enemy, especially if they keeping it from closing. Shoeboxed, the receipt-logging app, unloads the bulk with a quick snap of your camera. Sure, it helps track and manage your spending, but the real benefit? No-hassle returns or exchanges anymore (so long as you have your phone with you). 

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Forget emailing assigned tasks the next time you’re organizing a potluck, planning a joint kids’ birthday party or orchestrating a killer sweepstakes at work. Opt for Trello, a workflow app aimed at streamlining assigned tasks and to-dos on one board for a group of collaborators. Trello’s centralized board consists of project to-do lists, and within each list, double-sided cards.

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Hitting the “Forget Password?” button is a thing of the past with LastPass, the secure, single sign-on password management tool for all your online identities and I-can’t-remember passwords. (Note: Access to the app requires a premium $12 per year online membership). Once you create a LastPass account and input your original data, it stores the info securely in the cloud.

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Let’s face it -- organizing family activities on the wall calendar doesn’t cut it. The Cozi Family Organizer app provides a color-coded, shared calendar for each member of your brood complete with features like a to-do list, shopping list, family photo- and-text journal and more. Kids’ doctors’ appointments conflict with your big meeting? Designate the task to your hubs (or Grams, if she’s tech savvy!).

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Keeping track of the dosage, drug interactions and side effects of your prescriptions can be make your head spin. PocketPharmacist can help -- the pillbox app organizes multiple prescriptions, highlighting the strength, frequency and allergies assigned to each pillbox user (e.g.s you, hubby, the kids, maybe Gramps?).

Buying or renting a place is super exciting (think: decorating!), but when budget, location and conditions are factored in it can go from yay to nay pretty quickly. Trulia Real Estate organizes the house hunting for you. Simply input location, price range, square footage, number of bedrooms and property type, and the app plots out the available properties on a map.

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We’ve all experienced the dreaded feeling of missing a cousin’s birthday or friend’s anniversary. Enter Better Gift List, the ultimate gift-list manager that shops for special occasions for you. Insert the event, the date, gift and price and the app catalogs what purchases are coming up. Bonus: It lets you take a picture of the gift.

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Why you want it: One word: Folders! Control the organization and naming conventions of your pictures with Photo Manager Pro. The app eliminates the sloppy camera roll, making your photo library easily searchable thanks to customizable nested folders, photo captions and favorites features.

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Say goodbye to your standard A to Z address book! The newly launched app, Brewster, automatically organizes all of your contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Foursquare, Gmail and your address book into unique, easy-to-find profiles. Each profile displays the person’s contact information and social updates, giving you the low-down on birthdays, new jobs and relationships.

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