Top iPhone Applications for Attorneys

My good friend, David Swanner, recently published the following list of the top five free iPhone applications for lawyers:

1. Jott for iPhone :: Use this application to turn you iPhone into a powerful voice recorder that turns whatever you say into written notes. Perfect for on-the-go note taking, or transcribing conversations. Simply touch anywhere on the record screen, then tap again to stop recording. Use Jott for iPhone to create to-do lists that can be crossed out with the swipe of a finger and back up your notes on the Jott server for free. Jott is constantly being revised and via your Jott account you can now send hands-free texts and emails as well.
2. Air Sharing for iPhone :: This application allows you to take any of your documents with you on the go. View Word, Excel, jpegs, and much more at the touch of a button. Air Sharing for iPhone makes flash drives a thing of the past—and you get to view to the document on demand. The application is compatible with Mac, Windows, and Linux, and uses included software to transfer files straight to your phone without having to connect your iPhone to your computer at all, hence the Air Sharing name. Upload files quickly and easily to your iPhone for fast and easy access.
3. Remote Desktop Lite :: Especially convenient for users of Microsoft XP Professional, Remote Desktop Lite allows you to access your work computer from your iPhone. The application runs off of wiFi, or the phone’s network, and is fully secure. With this and other applications, the need to lug your laptop around is virtually eliminated. Set up your iPhone to use your remote desktop and see everything on your computer, just on a smaller screen. The setup and use of the program is simple and quick, and keeps you in touch with everything you need from your home or office computer.
4. Evernote :: Now you can take your note taking to a new level with Evernote for iPhone. Type in text, take a snapshot, or record your voice to add to your notes. This excellent tool ensures that you get the most amount of information recorded as possible, so you have everything you need when you return to the application. The best thing about this application is that once you set up your free Evernote account, you can access the pictures, text, and sound recordings from any computer or web-enabled mobile device, in addition to your iPhone. Since it is web-based, you never have to worry about losing your notes again—they’ll always be backed up.
5. iProcrastinate :: Don’t let the name fool you. This software is an excellent task management tool for people who are constantly moving. Let the application keep you on track and manage your time more wisely with iProcrastinate. Rather than having a whole lot of fluffed-up features, iProcrastinate is intuitively written and is extremely easy to use. You can use it for the simplest to the most daunting of scheduling tasks with the greatest of ease. Color-code your schedule for ease of locating what you need, when you need it. This is an amazing tool that will help keep your mind at ease when you need to know what’s coming next.

Of course, you can find out more about these applications at the links above or by visiting the Apple App Store.  My readers are also invited to submit comments with their own favorite iPhone apps.

Source:  "Top 5 iPhone G3 Applications for Lawyers" by Kelly Kilpatrick, published at David Swanner's South Carolina Trial Law Blog.

Comments

[Ware Cornell]

Evernote is an incredibly important web-based application. I first used it on my old Windows Mobile T-Mobil MDA. The iPhone application is nice but it needs to be installed on all your computers.

Jott has recently gone out of beta, but it is not terribly expensive. It freaks people out when I dictate short emails to clients, or my assistant or myself.

I am thinking of buying an expense tracker program called Jet Stream. Anyone know anything about it?

[Ware Cornell]

The iPhone expense tracking program I asked about is JetSet not Jet Stream. I downloaded it yesterday.

The really cool thing about it is it uploads the report to Google Documents where you can save it as an Excel spreadsheet (fully importable to Pages and Quickbooks). You can also email it to yourself or your assistant.

It provides for photo capturing of receipts, something you can do in Evernote, but Evernote is not a dedicated expense tracking program

Lawyers tend not to be road warriors like sales representatives but we do incur expenses and the option of saving it on your iPhone.

At $9.99 it is at the top end of what I will pay for an iPhone application, but I expect it to pay for itself quickly.

[Gustavo Justus]

It looks like Air Sharing is not a free app anymore.