What are your favourite browser extensions for productiveness, readers? Which of them do you utilize personally or for work — and the way do you utilize them?
(Which ARE your favourite browsers? I take advantage of Chrome about 90% of the time, however typically Microsoft Edge…)
I’ve talked about a number of my favorites earlier than…
My Favourite Browser Extensions
One Tab
I’m a type of individuals who steadily has too many tabs open, and OneTab is a extremely useful extension that closes ALL of them directly, however retains a listing of the place you’ve been. So once I’m overwhelmed, attempting to close down rapidly, or some mixture thereof, I simply click on the little OneTab funnel and all the pieces in that browser condenses down to 1 tab with a listing (and hyperlinks) to the URLs I used to be on.
One necessary factor to notice: it solely works per browser display screen, so when you’ve got a number of browser screens open with a number of tabs, then it’s a must to click on the OneTab funnel on every browser display screen. (Yeah… don’t ask me how I do know this.)
Do I’m going again to my previous hyperlinks? No, nearly by no means. Would I’ve saved all of them open if I hadn’t used OneTab, out of concern that I’d lose one thing necessary and irretrievable? Yup.
You may get OneTab right here. (I take advantage of the free model, however I feel there’s a paid one additionally. You too can use OneTab to import or export a listing of hyperlinks, which I additionally do (see my notes on LinkGrabber, beneath).
Evernote
As I wrote in my submit with tips about utilizing Evernote as an internet planner, I actually like to make use of Evernote to clip articles and in any other case use it as a “digital mind.” I shared extra Evernote ideas for mothers over on CorporetteMoms — I discover it actually useful for retaining observe of all kinds of data for my children, from the place they’re at present to issues that will likely be far sooner or later.
I take advantage of it for articles (resembling health-related analysis), useful Fb remark threads, notes from conversations/appointments, for paperwork that I wish to preserve digitized, and extra.
(I really HAVE been in the midst of a dialog with somebody and stated OH, wait, let me examine these take a look at outcomes (or no matter) that I do know I’ve uploaded to the Evernote cloud. Even when it’s in low WiFi I’ve had higher luck utilizing Evernote for this form of fast recall than the overall medical well being app or one thing else. (You possibly can additionally use the iCloud Notes app for this, however I discover Evernote to be much more sturdy.)
Morphine
I discovered Morphine once I switched to Chrome, as a result of I had used one thing known as Leechblock when Firefox was my most popular extension. I nonetheless use it, largely to restrict my time on websites the place I get sucked in (cough, Fb)…
As I wrote in my overview of Morphine up to now:
The thought is that you just solely “earn” time with the URLs you place in Morphine after you’ve been utilizing the pc for extra productive functions for a sure period of time. Good.
I used to have it set to 1 minute of play time for each 10 minutes of labor time, however that left me with far too many minutes in my financial institution — so I switched it to 1 minute of play time for each 60 minutes of labor time.
That was a bit too little (I’ve determined I would like a minimum of 3 minutes to have a look at Fb, even utilizing the Social Fixer plugin, as a result of when I attempt to sneak a peek for one minute, and inevitably attempt to refresh it for one more minute extra, it could take me a minimum of 30 seconds to seek out my place scrolling down the web page.
(Huh – I completely forgot in regards to the Social Fixer plugin, which hides sponsored posts and extra from FB… it appears prefer it was not too long ago up to date so I’ll have to present that each other attempt since my Fb feed is chock stuffed with completely random “steered for you” posts. I get sufficient memes by myself, thankyouverymuch… )
You’ll find out extra about it right here.
Library Extension
I turned Kate on to this one, so she wrote a Library Extension overview — I find it irresistible as a simple solution to remind myself to make use of my library. If there’s a e-book I need, it’s nearly sure one in every of my libraries has the e-book or audiobook.
1Password
I simply switched to this one after my longtime password program/browser extension, LastPass, had a zillion knowledge breaches. After some comparatively lazy analysis, I made a decision to present 1Password a attempt.
I do like 1Password however a few of the additional safety is a bit annoying, like having to log in steadily by myself desktop, and the way troublesome it’s to set this system up on a brand new machine.
(I may change to a grasp password that solely makes use of my left hand so I don’t need to take my proper hand off the mouse… for some motive that’s all the time what annoys me most when I attempt to open it up.)
You’ll be able to be taught extra about it right here.
LinkGrabber
That is in all probability solely helpful for me, however this extension can extract the entire URLs from an online web page so that you simply have a protracted record of them. I then use OneTab to import the URLs and do blog-related duties, like checking hyperlinks once I’m updating posts.
(I used to have a VA do that, however on the time my VA was based mostly within the Philippines and a number of the hyperlinks that weren’t working for her had been simply advantageous for me.) You may get LinkGrabber right here.
Browser Extensions I’ve Used and Preferred within the Previous…
I’ve simply type of gotten out of the behavior of utilizing these browser extensions, however I nonetheless like them…
- Forrest – nice in case you get pleasure from gamifying your focus… for me as a result of a number of the websites I legitimately go to for work (Nordstrom, Amazon, and so forth) are additionally usually distractions for me, it simply didn’t work the most effective for me.
- Momentum – nice in case you like retaining to-dos proper in entrance of you as a result of they open in new browser tabs! I in some way was unintentionally paying for 2 subscriptions, which they had been very good to refund me the second once I realized, after which I hadn’t been utilizing both of them so I simply stopped. I’ll return ultimately. Right here was Kate’s Momentum overview.
Readers, what are a few of your favourite browsers — and that are the most effective browser extensions for productiveness and focus?
