Microsoft’s OneNote, which first landed on the iPhone, allows you to create and edit OneNote notes and notebooks and save them to the Cloud with Windows Live SkyDive account. While the iPhone version was compatible with the iPad, it wasn’t optimized for the larger screen on the tablet. However, Microsoft published on their blog that they’ve now made their popular note-taking app available in an iPad optimized version.

Schedule Planner Pro HD is basically a planner app, of which there are a fair amount in the App Store. The real question is what makes this app stand out from the crowd? The answer, sadly, is not much. The app allows you to enter information about your due dates as well as add some formulaic details to the listing. For people who work on a project basis with a lot of deadlines to manage, this may actually be what you need.

The Omni Group will tell you they’re passionate about productivity, and evidence can be found in their utilities such as OmniFocus, OmniGraffle and OmniOutliner, longtime favorites of Mac (and now iDevice) owners. Their latest update is OmniPlan 2.0, a professional-grade project management application which now includes powerful new features that specifically allow users to break down tasks, optimize project resources, control costs, and monitor their entire project at a glance.

When I looked at the icon for this software—a black hat—one thing come to mind; the sometimes ironic, but always prepared butler of the Caped Crusader. That analogy is accurate in a lot of ways, as much like the famed Alfred from the comic books, Running With Crayons’ free productivity app is a bit of a jack-of-all trades, with tools that are designed to make your life simpler.

The Mac App store puts software at the tips of your fingers, but how do you know what’s good and what is bad? Well, we at Appletell are here to help you make a decision. Today, we are going to take a look at some of the best software that you can use for work. Prices range from $10 to $80, but they’ll all helps save you time and keep you organized.

Even if you’re from outside of the productivity space, you’ve probably heard of The Omni Group. With applications like OmniGraffle and OmniFocus, The Omni Group offers software to suit almost every productivity need you may have. And this year at Macworld, they’ve shown up big. I had the opportunity to chat with Ken Case, CEO of the Omni Group, about some of the products they’ve launched recently and how they’re doing.

I don’t know about you, but age must be catching up on me fast, as I’ve I become more forgetful these past few days. Well, okay, that’s an overstatement. But if you do keep on forgetting to do things, you could use a little help from this useful timer alarm app called Nag. The app has been receiving raves from those who’ve used it, and the recent update has brought in some new features that you would surely love.

Things is a very easy-to-use task management tool that helps us approach the GTD (Getting Things Done) philosophy proposed by David Allen. The concept is very simple, and the application is neat, clean and powerful. The idea behind this article is not to explain or detail every single feature of the application, but instead, to share my personal experience using it and giving one more try to the art of organizing every activity I’m in charge of.