If you've ever had to write a reference paper, essay or lab report, you know what it means to struggle with an overwhelming amount of information to organise, or a blank page looking back at you. WriteWell helps you organise that information easily, and offers writing templates to help you get started with your paper.

Each year's federal budget contains a heck of a lot of information that typically runs for hundred upon hundreds of pages. Here's a cheat guide to finding everything you need to know.

Google Drive has a handy "Shared with me" tab for finding the documents you have access to, but don't own. However, there are also several hidden search operators to help you narrow down your documents by collaborator.

Google Docs works really well for writing and creating documents, however, when you try to publish, the formatting can get kind of garbled. Google Doc Publisher fixes this problem.

WhatsApp is still one of the most popular alternative messaging apps, and now it's getting a little better. The company is rolling out a feature that allows document sharing, starting with PDFs.

iOS: Outlook is our favourite email app for iOS, and today it gets better integration with the other Office apps to make editing a breeze. Provided you have other Office apps installed (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), you can now open attachments directly from Outlook, edit the attachment, then attach it back into the reply email in a snap.

When you're writing a long research paper or article, chances are, you'll need to rearrange some paragraphs during the editing process. There's a simple way to do this in Microsoft Word: number your paragraphs, then sort them by number.

Google Docs for Android has always been a decent stand-in when you need to edit on mobile, but it's hardly the full experience. For example, even changing the name of the file you're editing has been buried. Now, that changes with the app finally allowing you to edit a file's name in the slide-out option menu.

Collaboration is a key element of good document creation in most workplaces. Like most features in Microsoft Word, the collaboration tools are powerful, but they can be frustrating to use until you learn how they work and how to make the best of them.

You have a lot of different options for saving your Gmail messages to Evernote, but most of them require that you give a third-party access to your Google account. That should be fine enough, but if you'd prefer not to do that, Digital Inspiration shows you how to roll your own forwarding service.

Android: LibreOffice is one of our favourite office alternatives, and it stands up well to the competition. If you need to read your documents when you're away from the computer, LibreOffice Viewer Beta can help.

iOS: Taking a picture of a document or a business card is easy with the Camera app. However, it takes time to focus, and it is tedious to photograph a whole bunch of documents. Evernote's new Scannable quickly takes pictures of anything it sees and lets you use the results anywhere on your iPhone -- not just Evernote.

It looks like there's another bug in iOS 8. This one was found by MacRumors forum members and causes you to lose all your documents in iCloud Drive.

Clutter can do a number on your brain, so it's best to organise and sort it all. The StoneGable Blog recommends a 10-folder system that gets all your papers in order so that you're never left wondering where you put that piece of paper.

If you want to display a range of data by region, you need a GeoMap. You may not have known this, but it's quite easy to create your own in Google Sheets after entering your data.

iPad: The export feature in Office for iPad is buried away and only lets you export a PDF as an email attachment. That means you can't save it locally anywhere (or in the cloud). Macworld figured out a way around this using If This Then That.

Android: What's taking up all the space in your Dropbox? Are there multiple copies of the same file in your Google Drive? Get control of your cloud storage with Unclouded for Android.

Chrome: When you collaborate on a project, you may need to have documents approved by other team members. Workflows is an add-on for Google Docs that brings this feature to Google's online office suite.

Icebergs is a web app that lets you clip text, images or entire pages from the web, upload and save files, and make and organise notes. If you're the visual type, and you like your organisational tools to come with thumbnails and beautiful interfaces, it's worth a look.