On BritMums we’re running a #BGSaveTime Linky, with bloggers sharing their favourite time-saving apps and sites. The Linky is sponsored by British Gas, which has a new online account management system and smartphone app that — among other things — lets you track the engineer coming for a home visit (at last!).
I’ve been meaning to blog about my favourite time-savers for ages. Ironically, trying to find the time to do it was the difficulty.
To speed things along, I asked my friend Jen Leo, a top-notch travel writer and blogger what she likes, and I’ve been trying out her suggestions (below). Along with that, here are my favourite time-saving online resources.
Sometimes text messages just aren’t fast enough. To help communicate with the BritMums team, we needed a way to group message that wasn’t quite so clunky. Someone suggested What’sApp – cross-platform mobile messaging that lets you exchange messages…without having to pay for SMS (bonus).
This isn’t a travel app but it’s invaluable for sharing hi-res pictures and documents with my fellow BritMums team as well as with my family. You can use the webapp or access it via an icon on your computer so you can drag and drop. No more emailing smaller versions to yourself to resave, then email again to the recipient, repeating ad nauseum. Easy.
“I love Cozi,” Jen Leo says. “It is our family calendar. My husbands updates from his computer, I update from my Android phone – it’s all in one spot. And it’s totally free! iOS, Android, Web – great for all. Especially since I never got the hang of Google calendars – which is weird because I use them for everything else. But Cozi interface is so easy to use.”
12 more kids’ travel apps, recommended by Jen Leo
Here are 12 more kids’ travel apps recommended by Jen that are a combination of time-saving and, er, time-spending for bored kids stuck in a car or on a plane. Download now, thank yourself forever.
What are your time-saving apps and sites?
Check out the #BGSaveTime Linky Challenge – there’s still time to share your favourite apps, add your link and possibly win prizes!
