Baggage. What a heavy word itself. Be it emotional or physical, we all carry some kind of baggage with us. Furthermore, we could even dare to say that our baggage define us, to some extent. The personal experiences we enjoyed…
When the year draws to a close, there it comes the old-time classic of making New year’s resolutions. I was never particularly inclined to those but at the point I am in my life, I felt like…
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My dear Naím, I began drafting this post on the eve of your fourth birthday. Since then, my sole attempts to continue writing were intermittent and sporadic, slightly chaotic, similar to the routine I live, we live in. Because…
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Seldom does a day go by without a new app, plug-in or browser extension entering the scene, and if you are anything like me, let’s be honest, getting to trial every single one of them and decide whether they make it into our winners list or discard them can get a bit challenging, to say the least. There are just too many of them. I used to be that type of person who always strived for finding new ones to add to my list but have come to the conclusion that keeping everything under your radar is in itself too much of a mammoth task and ends up being counterproductive.
The plethora of apps is way too vast to sum them up in one post so I decided to give you a roundup of the browser plug-ins which have proved to be time-saving and have helped me to keep my distractions at bay and hone in my organisation skills. If Chrome is your browser of choice, read on. You never know, if you have not used these extensions yet, you might end up loving these too 🙂
10 Chrome plug-ins I use for my day-to-day tasks
This app is great for taking notes, make to-do lists and save information ( pages, text or images) and append notes to them. I have used – and still do- other tools such as Evernote, but, I find that Google Keep does the trick and on the plus side, makes me save more time so it is a win-win to me.
If you are anything like me and sign up for tons of tools and apps – and, ahem, end up using only a fraction of these – you will find this plug-in very useful. It allows you to access several pages without entering your username and password every time you sign in and enables you to share secure passwords with other users. It comes in free and pay-per-use versions.
Another biggie for me. I am guilty of ending up with loads of tabs open which results in my laptop slowing-down. Since discovering this plug-in I have never looked back. This extension enables you to group all the tabs in one without having to close them all down and, more importantly, can save up to 95% of your computer’s memory.
Building upon the previous paragraph, if you are –also – guilty of having loads of tabs open at the same time, aside from OneTab, you might find this tool very useful. You can set the tool to automatically shut-down any tabs within a specific time frame, for instance, 40 minutes. The upside or using this app is that it also helps save your computer’s memory so you will probably notice it will go faster.
This Chrome extension creates a 100% customisable interface which shows different elements and links to help you plan your day and accomplish whatever tasks sit on your to-do list for the day.
There is quite a vast array of task scheduling and to-do list manager apps out there but I do find that this app offers some good bonuses such as the ability to sync across different devices and tools such as Slack. I have started using it at the very beginner’s level by simply adding items and task to my to-do list and link it to other apps when I got the hang of it.
If you happen to work remotely and have to liaise with people who are based in a different time-zone you will find this app very convenient. I recall how I had to do a search whenever I wanted to verify what time it was a given area, so this plug-in came handy. You can add different countries and
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