by Brittney Lee

Keeping it All Together

Like most of you, I have a love-hate relationship with technology.  I love it for all the useful things it can do, but I hate how attached we’ve become to it. While I do try to put down the phone and be present more, I’ve found a few apps that really help me keep my life in order.

For starters, I use the True Weight app each day. It’s a unique system of tracking your weight, whether you want to gain, lose, or maintain. It keeps a rolling average, so you can see beyond the daily fluctuations. It will chart your recorded weight and your “true weight” which is the average weight along with trend lines.

Another app I love is the eMeals app.  While it does come at a cost (I’ve previously been a part of a blogger promotion, so if you’re interested you should check that out), I pay for weekly meal plans and grocery lists. It’s awesome because when I’m at the store wondering what we need for dinner, I can pull up the recipes right there.

For my spiritual side, I love the Echo app.  Echo is a multi-use prayer app. It allows you to record anything you want to pray for (and also to mark when they’ve been answered!), but it also has a prayer mode. When you select “Pray now”, it will scroll you through your prayer requests and it will also block any disruptions from coming through on your phone. You can also set reminders to pray at certain times of the day.

When I travel, one app I love is TripCase. When you get itinerary emails, you just forward them to TripCase, and they keep it all together for you.  You can store hotel confirmations, flight plans, cruises, car rentals, restaurant reservations, concert tickets and more. It’s great because you can see all these plans together, get directions, check the weather, and countdown to your trip – all in one app.

Google Photos helps me streamline all of my digital images. I just take all the pictures and video I want, and then when I’m hooked up to wifi once a week, I open the Google Photos app.  It backs all my images up so that they are stored in the cloud.  Online, you can tag images, search through your images, and organize them, creating a great backlog of pictures without much work.

For my blogging, I use the WordPress app so I can create blog posts on the fly.  While I find it a little tedious to type an entire post on my phone, it’s great for starting posts and uploading photos from your phone. You can also approve comments, reply to comments, and check your stats.

So those are a few apps that help me keep it all together.  What apps do you use to stay organized and on track? I’d love to hear about them in the comments!

Brittney is a native Arkansan with a love for bright lights and big city. She often escapes her 20-acre home south of Fort Smith to shop, eat, and catch a concert in the big city. She blogs about her life, her faith, her adventures, her dogs, and her country home at Razorback Britt.