Here’s to 2014!

Happy new year! Every new year seems to fly by faster than the previous – I can’t believe that I’m already almost four years out of school. While 2013 was a fantastic music-filled year for me, I’m very much looking forward to what 2014 will bring. Here’s to a year filled with pushing myself outside of my comfort zone and fun experiences.

In the meantime, a few of my favorite phone apps from 2013, to help with daily organization and information intake:

1. Feedly – Home

When Google announced the sunsetting of Google Reader at the start of the year, I immediately began searching for alternatives so I could slowly wean myself off Reader. There were quite a few on the market, including feedly, The Old Reader (which had to rollback its userbase, due to overloading from the influx of ex-Google Reader users) and Digg’s anticipated reader. In the end, Feedly won me over with its clean, simple design and cross-device compatibility. An added bonus is that it works nicely with…

2. Pocket – Home

From my RSS feed to friends, I find a lot of articles that I want to save for later reading. Pocket makes it easy to bookmark articles no matter your device, and an added bonus is that lets you read the content directly on Pocket, rather than needing to navigate to the full NYTimes website, etc. Kudos to Shannon for recommending this to me, and Chin for featuring it in her recent Refinery29 article.

3. Yahoo! Weather – via iTunes

One of the most pleasant surprises of the year – a clean, beautiful and useful weather app from Yahoo! of all companies. In addition to the usual weather metrics, Y!Weather also includes wind, pressure, precipitation and sun/moon position information – all displayed on a backdrop of gorgeous photos (from Flickr, of course) aligned with the current time of day and weather forecast.

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