App for journalists: Workflow, for optimising everyday tasks

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What is it? A powerful automation app that allows users to perform multiple processes in one action.

Cost: Free

Devices: iOS

How is it of use to journalists?

Journalists can make use of Workflow and its array of built-in sequences to process a number tasks on-the-go or tailor their own workflows for custom-made chains of command.

These workflows are assigned to the widget board or found in the Safari options, so users have a quick go-to option for the common tasks they run into every day.

Sure, there are some handy quotidian options inside the app such as teeth timers, caffeine logs and pizza dial-ups. However, the savvy journalist can make use of its processing power to shorten URLs, set deadline reminders, zip and e-mail files and even create your own gifs and memes — if that is your thing.

It couples well with other apps too. Here is the pick of the bunch:

With Bear: users can dictate notes straight into the app, then upload them into e-mail, forward onto Whattsapp or copy to your Google Drive or Dropbox.

With Pocket: users can stockpile articles into the app to read later and then pull up any amount when they have the opportunity to 'kick back'.

With social media: Users can jump onto trending Twitter stories, Medium’s ‘editor’s picked’ or ‘top hunts’ on Product Hunt.

If you are a bit more creative, you can edit these built-in processes or start building your own workflows. Mind, this can be a bit daunting at first. This is a simple demonstration of resizing your last four pictures and e-mailing them to yourself.

But the possibilities are almost endless, so give it a go yourself.

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