tech, simplified.

It's so easy to write about tech that solves tech teams problems—thus the focus on so many blogs (including ones I've directed) on writing tools, code editors, team chat apps, and other similar things. You write what you know, and so the tools that help you with your work in the office are the most obvious things to write about.

But there's an entire other world of software that's aimed at more traditional businesses, those with brick-and-mortar stores and inventory to audit and remote locations that don't have consistent internet connections: mechanics and doctor's offices and utilities and farms and more. It's businesses like these that find it the most difficult to go paperless—and that stand to gain the most benefit from switching away from paper and clipboards.

That's what my latest app roundup at Zapier is focused on: apps that make it easy to replace paper forms and gather data remotely, even when there's no internet connection. They might not be the form apps your average tech business needs, but they're perfect to replace paper and clipboards in the rest of the businesses that keep the world running.

Continue reading at https://zapier.com/blog/best-data-collection-apps/

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