To get the most out of Dropbox, try some of the specific suggestions below, or let us know how you use this app in the comment box at the bottom of the page.

Organization Activity

With your child, use Dropbox to create a variety separate folders. Folders should then be labelled, with titles such as "chores," "media" and "school." Using these three simple categories, you and your child can fashion a mobile organizational list for day-to-day activities. It is a strategy that can be particularly effective for those who are often careless or absent minded. While an organizational app like Astrid can help to issue reminders, Dropbox's ability to access files from anywhere allows for document related to tasks to be more accessible. Especially concerning schoolwork, Dropbox is the best way of compiling word processed or scanned content in a systematic and manageable format.

Planning Activity

Using a desktop or laptop computer, create a weekly list of chores for your child to do. Allow your child to sync the word-processed list to Dropbox, so the list can be viewed at any time. Instead of reminding your child directly to carry out specific tasks, you can simply recommend your child to refer to a Dropbox folder entitled, "chores." Your child should make it a habit of checking the list periodically to manage and plan out the day around these household obligations.

Dropbox & ADHD

Children with ADHD sometimes let distraction or a lack of focus result in forgetful actions, like failing to bring homework assignments to class, an oversight that results in low scores in school, and a perception of being unreliable and unprepared. Children can use Dropbox as a way to combat their spells of absent mindedness, as long as they sync all their work to the app. In the event that they forget the physical copy of an assignment, its digital files sitting Dropbox can be accessed.

How to Use Dropbox for Children with ADHD:

• For children with ADHD who sometimes forget their homework, a regimented use of Dropbox should be employed. Parents may have to get involved at the beginning of the process. By scanning handwritten documents into a desktop, then syncing them as a PDF to Dropbox, parents are affording their children with the opportunity to retrieve all schoolwork at any moment. It is a process that will make studying easier and mobile, and will be a handy option for a forgotten homework assignment.

• Encourage children with ADHD to familiarize themselves with the syncing process. By selecting the "enable camera upload" function, photographs and videos will immediately sync to Dropbox into an existing folder. Understanding how to upload photos, will introduce children to the way in which Dropbox organizes content, allowing them to prioritize their most important files.

• Children will find it beneficial to create subject-related folders that feature all of their schoolwork. Doing so will allow them to access their schoolwork from any location. With schoolwork constantly at their fingertips, children will be capable of studying more frequently on their mobile devices.

The Dropbox app is just one option for cloud based storage apps. Explore the tools below, and let us know which resource you enjoy in the comment box at the bottom of the page.

iCloud

A product of Apple, iCloud offers subscription based cloud space to users who wish to share content across platforms. Read our iCloud review to learn more.

Cubby

Cubby is another cloud-based storage app, that offers up to 5 GB of space for free. Be sure to look at out our Cubby review for more information.