Apps To Help You Be Awesome

These handy smartphone apps are like having a personal assistant in your pocket!

- Lindsay De Freitas

LIFE is hectic. As you lie in bed at night, does your head spin as you try to figure out how you’re going to juggle all the demands of the next day: work, home, kids, exercise, friends, watering the garden, calling in a plumber, taking the cat to the vet?

Thank heavens for technology. These days there’s an app to help you organise and manage every aspect of your life – from plotting your route to work so you can miss that awful traffic snarl-up and creating to-do lists to filing vital information and fig ur ing out what you’re going to eat for dinner.

Play your cards right and it will feel as if you have a dedicated team of helpers at your beck and call. Here are three smartphone apps to help bring order and sanity to your life.

PERSONAL ORGANISER

Todoist 

Available on iOS and Android 

Cost: Free or R559,99 a year to upgrade to the premium version.