Big Discounts on Productivity Apps at the App Store

Apple has launched a three week sale on productivity apps on the Mac App Store, with a nice binder theme to navigate through their app offerings to match the theme.

The sale includes things from the Get Stuff Done section, as Mac Rumors originally reported. The sale will go from week to week, through three categories - including Prioritize, Organize, and Utilize - with apps for various needs.

The first week's category is Prioritize, and it includes Clear, Things, 2Do, Due, Todo, TaskPaper, the Hit List, and BreakTime. These apps all have deep discounts, some around 50 percent. For example, Todo is down from $14.99 to $6.99 and Things used to cost you $49.99, right now it costs $24.99.

The sale on the Prioritize Apps goes form January 24th to January 31st, when the next category goes on sale. 

If you don't even want to pay sale prices for payed apps to "Prioritize, Organize, and Utilize" here are three suggestions of free mobile apps that do the same:

Pocket (Prioritize) - Earlier known as Read It Later, this will prioritize your reading by leting you save interesting web pages, news articles, videos and other web content offline,  you can check them out when you have the time. The app is pretty simple and bug-free, and it's great for getting some needed reading done while you're waiting on line somewhere where there's no wireless signal or commuting in the subway.

Evernote (Organize) - Quite simply, this fee app will turn into your second brain. Evernote is a notetaking web service, a Mac or Windows software program, and an app all rolled and interconnected, into one. It's super easy to use. Just add a new notebook, and add notes inside that, and before you know it, you're organized. Evernote syncs your notes from the web, your home computer, and your mobile device so that you're always up to speed with yourself. And you can even add plug-ins to most web browsers to save a page to your notebook at the click of a button. Finally, both the app and the desktop software lets you save audio notes, so when you're on the go you can remind your future self about your fleeting thoughts quickly and painlessly.

Dolphin Browser (Utilize) - Nothing ruins productivity and generally frustrates like waiting for what seems like hours for a simple web page to load. Use Dolphin Browser instead, and you'll be cruising through quickly rendered webpages in no time. Some additional features like the voice controls are a little gimmicky, but Dolphin also has myriad plug-ins to customize your browser including tabbed browsing, thumb-nailed favorites, ad-blocker, and screenshots.