home_MyndFor people who are constantly jetting from one meeting to another, figuring out the landscape of a day can be difficult to navigate. Spending excess time determining where to be, when to be there and who else will be there can add needless overhead to a day and put a crimp on productivity.

While some folks are lucky enough to have assistants to manage their days for them, not everyone has the luxury of leaving their scheduling up to someone else. Mynd aims to solve that problem by turning a user’s iPhone into an intelligent assistant.

Mynd’s main screen is incredibly straightforward: in a set of six tiles that are reminiscent of Microsoft’s Metro interface, the app provides users with an easy look at their day at a glance. One tile shows the weather, while others track where and when users need to be to meet their schedule.

That hooks up with one of Mynd’s marquee features: using a combination of mapping and traffic data, it can figure out how far ahead a user needs to leave for an appointment, and then notify them when they need to go, and when they’re running late. If they’re not going to make it, users can tap a button to send a message to other attendees to let them know that they won’t be around.

Detail_MyndEvernote users will appreciate Mynd’s integration with the note-taking service, which allows them to associate certain notes with certain events. That way, they can quickly pull up reference material without having to go crawling through all their notebooks.

One of the great annoyances of conference calls is having to manage a different number and oasscode for every call, and then needing to have them on hand in order to get in. Mynd bypasses that by getting users into their conference call with the press of a button, and automatically entering the call using the passcode.

Another killer feature of Mynd is the ability to schedule meetings right from your phone. Using the app’s meeting scheduler, users can set the title of a meeting, choose times they’re available, and then send the possibilities off to a list of other invitees. Once they’ve heard back, users can then pick the time that works best for everyone, and Mynd will automatically generate a meeting invite for everyone involved.

For people who don’t usually have thick appointment books, Mynd may not be the best calendar app. While it’s really great at handling the day-to-day, Mynd isn’t as good for giving people a look at the long view of their calendars, compared to other offerings.

My one tiny gripe with the app’s design is that while most of the functionality included in Mynd is custom-designed, adding a new event uses the built-in iOS calendar entry screen. While it works fine, it just feels a bit out of place given how nice the rest of the app looks.

If a long list of daily appointments is a constant in your life, definitely check out Mynd.

Mynd is available for free from the App Store.

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