Need a productivity boost? Try these essential tools for getting things done. Use them on their own, or create the perfect workspace by using them side by side.
See what’s urgent
Apple Design Award–winning to-do app Things 3 helps you focus on tasks you need to complete now and hide tasks that can wait. Add a start date to a to-do to have it automatically pop up on the right day (or even later in the evening). Need to track a multistep task? Embed a checklist in a task’s Notes section.
Manage your meetings
Fantastical is an elegant and superpowered way to organize your sea of appointments. Enter events as you would say them (“Dinner with Aaron at 8 pm”), and set up recurring plans with ease (“Date night every first Friday of the month”). Templates make it a snap to add repeated baseball practices, lunch meetings, or book club nights.
Be ready when inspiration strikes
MindNode has long been our go-to brainstorming tool, and on Apple Vision Pro it’s even more helpful for outside-the-box thinking. Expand your virtual mind-mapping canvas to fill your view (and limit distractions!), or fire up Brainstorming mode to capture and organize complex ideas in a delightful cloud of words, stickers, and links.
Take better notes
Engineered from the ground up to keep your writing flow going, App Store Award winner Craft makes wrangling text, images, videos, and code as easy as dragging and dropping. Keep it side by side with your other apps to create formatted wikis (with nested notes), quickly grab text and images, and more.
Control your computers remotely
The beloved remote desktop app Screens 5 is even better on Vision Pro. Access Mac, Windows, Linux, or Raspberry Pi devices from afar (or across the room), run multiple connections at once, and use Curtain mode to hide your Mac’s display so others can’t see what you’re working on.