![]() ![]() Would my work actually be any good?Īside from seeing if I could actually do my day job, I was also intrigued to see how mobile might influence my work quality, my satisfaction at work, and collaboration with my team. The only thing I couldn’t do was place a redirect, which I was luckily able to lean on my colleagues for. But, I was pleasantly surprised to learn I could do 99% of what I do on WordPress desktop on the mobile app. Going into the experiment I was the most nervous about this one because WordPress has so many complex features (partly driven by the complex feature set of our particular design), so I was sure there’d be multiple points of failure when it came to the app. And they do use Face ID for log in, which was awesome. I was very impressed by everything I could do on the WordPress app, so I have to give it 5 stars. Maybe Duo should consider using Face ID □ WordPressĥ/5 stars. I gave it 4/5 stars though because nothing beats using my yubikey on my laptop to login to our internal applications. ![]() I thought it was very easy to use to login to applications. Atlassian uses Duo for Two Factor Authentication (and that’s one of the main reasons I can even work from my mobile!). I use it on both desktop and mobile, and the versions are exactly the same, which helps a ton with simplicity. Wunderlist is my personal productivity to-do list. My big reason for rating it so highly is that I depend on a power up on our team’s Editorial Calendar board called Calendar, which allows me to see a – surprise! – calendar view of all our upcoming stories.ĥ/5 stars. I know, I know, it seems like I’m giving all my company tools the best reviews, but truly I was very impressed by Trello. Lots of oohs and aahs from the audience on that one. Going into the week I was worried about a few meetings that I had to facilitate, but I was easily able to share my screen in only one click to everyone in the call. One of the best discoveries I made was screensharing from my mobile. Zoom on mobile was so fun, and in some ways, easier than dialing in from a room or a desktop. I did have to dock it one star though because Confluence mobile does not allow for in-line commenting, but I know the team is working on rolling it out soon, so stay tuned. I also used it during the week to create documents, and that was smooth and easy as well. It was such a clean, and uncluttered experience that really helped me focus. The page layout is easy for reading, and the navigation is great (perhaps better than on desktop). I am biased here, but I really enjoyed the Confluence app on my iPhone. Later on in the week I learned that if I x-ed out the notification of how many unread messages I had (see below), it would stop alerting me of unreads in that channel. My only critique of the app is that it was harder to catch up on threads than on desktop, simply because I didn’t know how far to scroll until I had “seen” everything. Slack is very mobile-friendly and I enjoyed using it during my experiment. Just click to the right of the text to have it auto-fill for you. My favorite feature of the app is the new predictive responses. ![]() I love Gmail on mobile, and I use it a lot to check in on work email, even on a normal day. Here’s how all my apps stacked up (iPhone): Gmailĥ/5 stars. I used ten apps during the course of the week, and found very few hiccups in my daily operations. How would it affect the quality of my work? Would I be more or less productive? Collaborative? Would I just be on Instagram all day?ġ.Could I do my day-to-day job just on apps? Was it technically possible?.Over the course of the week I wanted to answer two basic questions: I felt like I’d be a good candidate for mobile-only work, so I downloaded all the apps I use (truth be told: I already had many of them), and then committed to working for one week using exclusively my iPhone. Basically, lots of reading, giving feedback, chatting over Slack and email, and yes, publishing in WordPress. Seemed like a good experiment for me to tackle.Īs an editor, I spend most of my time reviewing article drafts, brainstorming with writers, assigning stories, and publishing content. I mean, did you know your smartphone is more powerful than your PC? It’s also more waterproof. Management consultancy Deloitte expects that mobile-only work will be the majority across the global workforce in just five to ten years. Thanks to recent advances in mobile computing technology, mobile productivity is higher than ever before. Mobile devices are the most accessible piece of technology to workers worldwide. ![]()
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