Previously on Lemmy: Emulators
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For the last couple of weeks, it was all fun and games. This week, we are going for a more generalized topic on how you use your Android devices for work.
I’m boring in regards to work apps, so I very much favor using Microsoft apps over Google apps for work, as overall I feel Google apps work better on iPhones than on Android (to my great frustration). Office and Teams work exactly how I expect them to, while their desktop version are a bit bloated, on Android they work super well, and there really is no replacement that’s as good as Microsoft Lens for scanning printed documents into PDFs.
But, I understand my use for Android for productivity is fairly limited, so, I’m interested to see if we can put our head together and find some interesting ways to use your Android devices to help us all be more productive.
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As a fully remote/flexible/async SW developer contractor paid by the hour, I have a different situation than most.
Personally I do not install any work apps on my phone because I could easily end up “doing work” that I don’t really get paid for.
When I work, I sit down at my actual PC intentionally, I start a timer, and I bill for my time that I take doing work only.
I avoid any work that I need to respond to outside of that and I make this fact known to anyone I work with.
Forgot to mention this one, and this will probably be the first non-free app I’ll be recommending, but Genius Scan is simply great for scanning documents with your phone. I paid like $10 for it in 2017 and I’ve been since then using it all the time to scan my receipts to claim my expenses whenever I go on a business trip as I sometimes end up losing them.
There probably might be a FOSS alternative for that one? On PC there’s ScanTailor (https://scantailor.org/ ) which is open-source, so maybe an app using the same libraries could be on Android too? But yeah you could also just take photos of your documents and wait until you get home to your PC to post-process them with ScanTailor.
To be honest, not.
- my employer gives apple mobiles out
- anything usefull can’t be done on those small screens
- screens that are large enough to show anything useful aren’t portable
- when I’m out of the office/not working from home, I’m not available for work, so I don’t need to use android for productivity
Privately, I have an email client for emergencies (used aqua, but with the subscription junk now introduced, looking for a good FOSS alternative) and a calendar which I need to check more. That’s about it peoductivity wise.
I personally don’t use it for my actual job at all, but a lot of productivity-focused tasks can be done through Termux.
I don’t really think phones have a real use (yet?) for productivity aside from as a marketing gimmick. Only for looking stuff up.
Well, there are people whose entire workflow can be and is done on a phone. It’s just not the best method for you and me.
Do you know what they do? I seriously cannot imagine anything where at least a tablet wouldn’t be much better and more efficient.
Low-budget vlog productions can be done completely on one device nowadays, and that’s very appealing for some, like tech illiterate people who want to post shit online. For others it just works better for them than taking it off the camera/phone and putting it on a traditional PC to edit.
is a good example of someone who uses this type of workflow.
CamScanner for scanning documents and straightening them/cleaning them up. It’s still the best tool (Microsoft Lens included) for that. Granted, the app got shittified at some point so I’m on an older version (5.9) which I keep without internet access.
Firefox for reading tech articles; it can send tabs to my PC and has a nice reader mode. Similar-purpose apps are Harmonic (HackerNews client) and Feeder (RSS reader).
DroidcamX for using my phone as a webcam.
Calengoo for calendar events and tasks (todos).
A small app called Agile (com.sauce.agile) for focused tasks with multiple steps. It’s simple but very efficient — you create a topic and tasks, then flick tasks from todo - doing - done. Sort of a very basic Kanban. Works for anything from learning to shopping.
