Remote team - mobile tools

When working remotely and/or asynchronously you may be often in situations where a mobile access to the team/project data is very useful. See my previous blog post on desktop tools for remote teams.

Here is a list of tools I often use in the context of the Arkency team. I use all of them from my iPhone 5s. I think most of them have their Android versions.

• Team/project
• Slack
• our IM tool of choice, good UX, easy to use, even with a 20+ team
• the nice thing is that it caches all the history of our channels, so I can sync with them whenever I want
• Hackpad
• accessing offline and creating hackpads offline is the killer feature
• Trello
• iOctocat
• This app pushes me a notification whenever any new commit appears in any of my github repos. I can easily review the diff, comment on the changes or just browse through the code - highly recommended!
• basic version is free. it's worth upgrading to receive notifications ($12.99)
• Mumble
• the voice communication tool of our choice, push to talk, multiple rooms
• Social
• Twitter
• Facebook
• AlienBlue
• a Reddit client - useful if you often post your blog posts to Reddits
• free, but worth upgrading for $1.99
• Getting Things Done
• MindNode
• $9.99
• it's the mind mapping tool, that I was looking for a long time
• it has a Mac version (paid separately) and integrates/syncs via iCloud
• Evernote
• Quick to find important information, even from a mobile.
• Geo
• Foursquare
• Even though, we are a remote team, many of us live in the Wroclaw area. When people are in the habit of checking in, you can easily see if anyone is close to you right now. I'm a strong believer of async/remote work but when there's a chance to meet face to face, that's always a good idea!

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