Apps for Academics: Productivity

Capture anything: photos, text, screenshots, and audio recordings. Tag your notes, organize them into notebooks, share them with others or keep them private. Syncs across computers and devices.

Create and edit documents online.

Keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Your notes stay in sync with all of your devices.

Powerful note-taking and organizer app, with colorful themes. Backs up your notes to Google Docs. Create folders, include calendar view in every folder, set up tasks lists, attach photos and maps to your notes, set alarms, set passcode lock for privacy, and many more "awesome" features.

Easy-to-use voice recognition app powered by Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Allows you to speak and instantly see your SMS, email or social networking updates on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Turns what you say into text and works surprisingly well. Fix any errors you see, then copy into other apps automatically. Great all-in-one voice input solution.

Use notes, photos and sketches to quickly capture your ideas.

Keep your lists in sync between your mobile devices and computers.

Manage your tasks anywhere.

Organize and share your to-do lists.

Password manager for generating secure passwords and storing all you passwords securely. Syncs in the background with your computers and devices.

Simplifies the process of scheduling events, meetings, and appointments.

Easy-to-make flashcards on your phone or online.

Get access to files anywhere through cloud storage for your photos, videos, files and more.

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network. Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device.

Save articles, videos, recipes, and webpages you find online or from apps, like Flipboard and Feedly.

Sync your files online and across your computers and devices automatically. Store up to 2 GB for free and up to 100 GB for paid accounts.