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This week Fraser and Federico take another pass at managing tasks on iOS, this time looking at implementing Getting Things Done with OmniFocus on iOS.

OmniFocus is one of the big beasts of the task management arena on iOS. OmniFocus of course started as a Mac app in 2008 and has migrated onto iOS as time has gone by.

Omnifocus on iOS is one part of a whole system that includes OmniFocus on the Mac, Apple Watch and Omni's syncing service. All of these parts work together but you don't need the Mac app to get the best out of your OmniFocus system. We show you how to live the iOS lifestyle with a full-power GTD system.

Apple Notes is our 'lightweight' task manager of the week. There's so much to like about Apple Notes since iOS 9. As any reader of Getting Things Done will tell you, you don't need a super-powered task manager to implement the process - even plain old paper would do.

This week Fraser and Federico take a pass at task management on iOS. This is another area of productivity where iOS is very well served for options.

There are thousands of to do list applications on the App Store, but we take a look at one heavyweight app and one lighter app this week. Our heavyweight app is Federico's task manager of choice, Todoist.

For our lighter, simpler, option we also take a look at Apple reminders which, despite its simplicity, still has a level of integration with iOS that no other task manager can match.

This week Fraser and Federico dive into managing your calendar on iOS.

Many of us live and die by our calendars. Having a digital calendar in your pocket has been an important use case for mobile professionals since the early days of Psion organisers and Palm Pilots. Today, we have a huge range of options for calendaring on iOS. Let's look at some of them.

This week Fraser is joined by writer David Chartier to explore some of the stranger things you can do with iOS.

David Chartier

Canvas listeners are used to discussions of email clients, file management and ways to handle the web. Have you thought about turning iOS devices into baby monitors, music stands, DIY tools and display screens? We'll get into all of that this week.

This week Fraser and Federico dig into how to program on iOS.

The mission of Canvas has always been to illuminate the parts of iOS that people think can't be done. In that spirit, this week Fraser and Federico dig into how to program on iOS.

We take a look at both traditional Integrated Development Environment tools such as Pythonista and Codea and block-based programming tools like Editorial, Workflow and Hopscotch.

This week Fraser and Federico discuss travelling with iOS devices.

With summer - and WWDC - coming up, Fraser and Federico bring you advice on the equipment, apps and tweaks for your iOS devices that you need when travelling with your iOS devices.

The the travel bags are opened to reveal the essentials within. Fraser and Federico share their favourite travel accessories, techniques for getting online abroad and their preferred iOS settings tweaks and Apple Watch complications for having fun and staying safe abroad.

This week Fraser and Federico (particularly Federico) drop serious knowledge on 3rd party iOS mail clients.

What are they good for? Where do they have hard limitations? Which ones are the best? Federico makes his picks and explains how these clients can hook into other parts of your workflow to really enhance your mail processing on iOS.

This week Fraser flies the show solo to talk about his experience in creating, delivering and sharing presentations with iOS.

Travelling with such light and simple devices is a dream come true for many road warriors, but can iOS truly deliver the power required to be an end-to-end presentation platform?

This week Fraser and Federico tackle email on iOS using everyone's default client Apple Mail.

You might think of Apple Mail as being a slightly weak client but, as we shall see, it's more powerful than you think. We tackle some of the special smart mailboxes that exist in Apple Mail, look at notifications and composing mail.

This week, it's Federico's turn to confess something.

This week Fraser and Federico investigate the rich world of camera-based scanners on iOS.

Scanning with just the camera on the back of the device is an area of iOS that has been around for many years and has matured significantly over that time. The latest generation of iOS scanner apps, coupled with ever-better cameras on our devices are really very usable scanners indeed. Couple that with increasingly sophisticated post-scan workflows and you have a tool that James Bond could only dream of.