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Do you have a stack of books to read, but can’t find the motivation? Or you want to dig into that classic novel you tell everyone you want to read but are afraid you won’t finish?

Just as athletes or apprentices crave feedback on the way to mastery, ReadMore helps you understand your reading habits and encourages you to keep reading. Previously featured on the front page of the iOS App Store, ReadMore tracks your reading sessions, holds notes, predicts, gently prods, and more! Check out the demo video of this great app.

Read more, and read smart!

Master productivity with the power and finesse of OmniFocus using Creating Flow with OmniFocus. Kourosh Dini makes the daunting seem simple and helps you gain control from the smallest routines to the bigger goals of life using one of the most powerful productivity tools available today.

TrackTime enables Creatives and Web Professionals to identify and track lost billable hours. Unlike other timers TrackTime enables you to retrospectively assign billable hours from app usage, web history or iTunes history. TrackTime easily identifies ‘lost’ time by visualizing where you spend your time, allowing users to easily see for who and how their time is spent.

See how much time is really spent tweaking, updating or just doing that tiny quick fix, then bill for it.

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Midori is a Japanese dictionary app for iPad and iPhone. It is simple, easy-to-use, and yet strikingly powerful. Midori includes over 146,000 entries and 150,000 example sentences. There are multiple ways to look up words, including handwriting recognition where you can actually write down Japanese characters and it will recognize them.

Midori also comes with thousands of kanji stroke order animations, kanji lists, flashcards, and text translation. Making it the perfect app for those who want to become a master in Japanese language

Midori is a universal app available on the App Store.

Agendas lets you create an interactive agenda to be shared with other iPads on the network. It’s designed to keep meetings productive, on time, and enjoyable. Featured by Apple on the App Store homepage.

NoteTask is a fast, clean, and simple note taking application that presents your text as tasks, completed tasks, and sections. By default it recognizes lines starting with hyphen and spacebar as tasks, and lines starting with exclamation mark as completed tasks. (You can customize this behavior.)

You can think of NoteTask as a simplified version of the popular Mac app (and iOS app), “TaskPaper” by Hog Bay Software, plus Simplenote syncing. We position NoteTask not as a complicated task management system to replace famous Things or OmniFocus but as a simple note app plus simpler task solution.

Fruit is good for your brain and so is Fruit Memory HD for the iPad. This fun, well-designed, memory-matching app is a great huddle game built to play solo or in groups of up to 4 players.

An educational and entertaining memory game that is loved by people of all ages, Fruit Memory was built by the father of 3 toddlers, who grew tired of shuffling and dealing cards on the living room floor. With the added characters, sounds and great design, the Fruit Memory HD experience is well worth the $.99 in the iPad app store. Enjoy!

Curator is a great new tool that helps designers and illustrators create nice presentations of their work for client review.

Often overlooked, presenting work in a professional manner (even in the early stages of review) can have a serious effect on a client’s perceived value of the services, and often times even their feedback.

So for those of you still emailing your clients jpegs or spending your time laying things out in Illustrator, give Curator a try and see if it can’t speed up your workflow and/or improve your image. At only 99¢, there’s not much to lose.

MarkdownNote makes it really easy to create notes using John Gruber’s popular Markdown markup language in your iPad. Using live preview feature, you can preview your Markdown markup syntax to HTML on writing. MarkdownNote allows you to create and organize your notes in folders with Dropbox.

HiTask is a friendly and easy-to-use task management tool that anyone can start using right away. HiTask combines simplicity with powerful enterprise features such as task sharing, assignment, reporting, and time tracking. You can organize tasks by project, then share them with or assign them to co-workers, family and friends. Get reminders sent to your phone, and even synchronize your tasks and projects between your desktop browser and iPhone/iPad app. Shared tasks and projects seamlessly synchronize between team members.

Jot down a task and set up a reminder alert really, really fast? A companion to your GTD manager where all your mundane but important reminders can go? Now you have it.

Pear Note helps you create more complete, understandable notes on your Mac. Typed notes are blended with recorded audio, video, and slides to create notes that make more sense when you need them most. Think of it as augmented note-taking, with your typed notes being improved by other inputs such as audio or video. For instance, if a piece of your typed notes is incomplete, just click on that text to jump straight to that point in the audio recording.

Pear Note is available in or out of the Mac App Store.

In the 1800’s the QWERTY keyboard was developed to make mechanical typewriters more reliable. By moving letters that commonly followed each other further apart, there was less chance of the swing-arm typebars colliding and jamming. In effect it slowed down typists.

In 1936 August Dvorak patented the “Simplified Keyboard” which did away with historical clunky skeuomorphism. Rather than comfort, Dvorak was interested in productivity.

Despite QWERTY’s dominance today, people like W.P.M. Guinness record holder Barbara Blackburn see a dramatic improvement in speed and accuracy after switching to DVORAK.

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