The Daily App: Visionboard for iPad

If nothing else, the iPad has produced entirely new methods of staying organized, completing projects and reaching goals. From Apple’s own Reminders app to thousands of other productivity apps by third-party developers, for many the iPad isn’t just about “usage models,” but about “personal organization models.”

Which leads us to Visionboard for iPad. A $1.99 download from the Apple iTunes App Store by developer Robb Research, Visionboard provides you with a graphical organization capability for what are seemingly any and all of your life’s goals.

Graphically, Visionboard is presented as a digital cork board, where you’re permitted to post “sticky note”-like reminders as well as more in-depth goal-trackers (depicted like postcards or photographs) that you can pin to the cork board, and tap to update and track your progress.

This was developed and is sold as a “lifestyle” app, but don’t let that stop you from using it for business. The same model and features that allow you to put up visual goal-trackers for weight loss or bank savings accounts can also be used to track progress toward a work project, sales goal or product development.

Beyond the graphic capability, Visionboard doesn’t provide much in the way of sophisticated note-writing or automated alerts or reminders - the kind of which you’d get from other apps. But for those among us who prefer to organize their goals visually, this is a nice app to have on your iPad to do just that.