Are you a mobile worker? Here's our six favourite apps bound to make your life more easier, work more efficient and give you free time for the things you love. We'll cover remote storage, project management, productivity management, note taking, to-do lists, idea management, conference calls and screen sharing.

1. MUST HAVE TOOLS FOR
THE MOBILE WORKER

2. INTRO
Are you a mobile worker?
Most of us are these days, whether we realise it or not. The team at
HotDesk have compiled a list of some of the best remote working tools
around.
So without further adieu, here’s six tools to make you more efficient as a
mobile worker and give you more time for the most important things in
life…

3. STORAGE
Access Your Work Anywhere.
Dropbox is the web’s preferred platform for storing documents on the
cloud and ensuring availability from any location (so long as you’ve got
an internet connection that is (which is still only accounts for about 40%
of the world by the way).
A number of alternatives to Dropbox exist such as Google Docs,
Microsoft’s One Drive (formerly Sky Drive) and Kim Dotcom’s Box.net
which offers a whopping 50GB of free online storage to new users.

4. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Get Sh!t Done.
Billed as everyone’s favourite project
management app, Basecamp is used to
manage daily tasks and milestones for
your project across multiple,
geographically dispersed teams.
Deskaway and Join Contacts are viable
alternatives while Trello finds favour
amongst many a startup.

5. TASK & IDEA MANAGEMENT
Your ‘To Do’ List
Arguably, Evernote is the ultimate tool for task and thought management
across multiple devices. The app has gone from mere note taking to an
enterprise class knowledge management solution.
Rich with features such as PDF annotation, ample storage, an intelligent
search function (which allows you to search inside PDFs and find text in
images!), offline access and snazzy team sharing capabilities, it charts
near the summit on most ‘top apps’ lists and tops our list here at HotDesk.

6. CONFERENCE CALLS
Because Sometimes…You Need to Talk to People
When it comes to calling somebody online,
Skype is the default go-to option the world
over. But what if you need to speak to a
team of people at once – a team that
happens to be geographically dispersed?
Oovoo allows you to add up to eight
members on a single video or voice chat
across all devices. Problem solved.

7. PRODUCTIVITY MANAGEMENT
Measure, Track and Demonstrate Your Worth
Our favorite productivity management and benchmarking tool is
Rescue Time. Boasting a beautiful graphical presentation of your most
time consuming activities along with a recommendation of whether it is
good to proceed with them or not.
The goal dashboard possesses an intellectual algorithm, assessing the
time you spend on various tasks, suggesting goals to accomplish for the
upcoming working week.
For those who have have negotiated or are negotiating remote working
privileges, this is a great tool to demonstrate your productivity and output
to your boss.

8. SCREEN SHARING
For When You Need to Show and Tell
The best way to communicate something is often via visual
demonstration, yet as a mobile worker you don’t have the ability to sit
down with someone and point things out on your screen.
Actually you can, minus the sit down that is.
With tools such as Join.me and Zoom.us, you can seamlessly share your
screen with other people and use the built-in chat or call function to
support your demonstration. Too easy.

9. … AND
WE’RE
DONE!
Do these make your list
of top remote working
tools?
Which other tools do you
use?
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