Staying productive is a challenge these days. Especially when most of us are still working from home. In this post-pandemic period when there are loads of physical and mental distractions all around you, there are many apps that can boost your productivity tremendously. These apps will not only help you lead the best work-life, but they will also actually help you create a work-life balance.
Here are some of the handpicked apps which will certainly make your day!
1. Evernote
Evernote is a premier cross-platform app and notes organizer. One of the most popular apps for productivity, it gathers all your notes in multiple formats such as audio, PDFs, photos, digital sketches, and more, organizes them into the cloud, and makes them searchable instantly! Most importantly, it syncs across multiple devices so you can access it from anywhere.
2. Trello
Growing popular these days, Trello is one of the best apps to manage your workflow. It is like a bulletin board wherein you can set up to-do lists, notes, meetings, tasks, and more. Best for the people whose work entails collaborating with other members and sharing details with them. They can create new cards (tasks, pictures, notes, ideas), add their comments, assign tasks, and do a lot more. Basically, it provides you an easy-to-use layout to organize your projects.
3. Missed
Missed is a scheduling software for small businesses. It provides free video conferencing, appointment scheduling, payment gateway, and a lot more. It truly transforms your digital workplace with its intelligent products that are Calendar Dashboard (manages all your appointments visually), Booking Software for Small Business (makes online booking easy), Video Calls Scheduling (share your meeting link via the app of your choice), and Virtual Streaming Events (stream anything virtually).
4. IFTTT
IFTTT stands for ‘If this, then that’. It is basically a web and mobile app that allows you to automate your most monotonous tasks between the internet and devices.
If you spend a lot of time doing redundant tasks online, this is the best app for you. Similar to the Apple shortcuts, it allows you to create workflows on preset conditions. For example, ‘turn all the smart lights home when I enter the home’ or ‘when someone tags me on Facebook, save that photo’
5. Scanbot
Scanbot is truly a modern way of scanning. Bringing digitization to scanning, it scans and fax documents from your mobiles and tablets. It scans everything, understands it, and extracts the relevant for you. It integrates document detection, capture, and intelligence technology into one. A fast approach to paperless workflow into businesses, it creates editable PDF of the documents, scans QR and barcodes, verifies international ID documents, and a lot more.
6. Toggl
Nowadays, time is of the essence and one needs to do everything to save every minute of their day. Toggl helps you do just that. It is a time tracking app that keeps tabs on where you are spending your time.
To put it simply, it records how much time you are spending on what so that you can keep a tab on it and balance it according to your productivity. It helps you schedule your appointments well, manage your tasks efficiently, and plan your day lucratively.
7. Slack
A renowned group messaging app, Slack nowadays is used in most organizations as a community. It has taken the group messaging and coordination tool to the next level.
It allows teams to have group discussions, video calls, one-on-one messaging, and audio calls and archives them for future reference. It can easily be integrated with multiple other apps such as Zendesk and Asana. Also, with instant messaging synced across devices, it allows you to set instant notifications on triggers.
8. Be Focused
Are you someone who easily gets distracted? Then this app is for you. Be Focused is a productivity app for iOS and Mac. It uses Pomodoro Technique. Basically, it breaks your day into 25 minutes sessions to get your work done and boost your productivity. It enables you to manage your tasks such that you can work them in the sessions and break durations. It is highly customizable and gives you the full ability to create your sessions and breaks as you see fit.
9. Asana
Asana makes communication easy. It is a workplace tool that empowers you with easy collaboration and communication within your organization. It eliminates the cumbersome task of managing multiple email threads with projects. It allows you to create projects, give ownership, comments, set deadlines, requests, and a lot more.
10. 1Password
Too many accounts, too many passwords. Everyone wastes a lot of their time remembering and setting up their forgotten password. 1Password comes to rescue. It is a password management app that keeps all your passwords safe in one place. Saving you the energy of recalling every password, it allows you to access your accounts anywhere by remembering just one master password. And yes, it is end-to-end encrypted.
