Pocket (Freemium): Ever find or get sent a super cool article but don’t have time to read it right now? Enter Pocket: a cross-platform tool to save your favourite reads for later and categorise them with custom tags (whether it be investing, technology, psychology, politics or music). Essentially, it’s like a CRM for friends: an app that allows you to organise your friends & family into a hierarchy of social circles (based on your frequency of interaction) and get automatic reminders to catch up with people you haven’t seen in a while. ![]() Fabriq is less so a traditional ‘productivity’ tool but it tackles a super valuable problem of time in the COVID age: regularly staying in touch with the people you care about. I’ve also included Taskboard, a great Chrome extension for a fullscreen kanban view of all your task lists in-browser in a desktop format.įabriq (Freemium): Probably a tool you’re less familiar with than some of the others on here. Direct integration with Gmail and Google Calendar means you automatically see your tasks alongside these tools. Google Tasks + Taskboard ( Free): One of Google’s smaller products, I find Google Tasks to be a super clean, minimalist tool to create task lists flexibly for both mobile and desktop usage. I have two separate boards set up for tracking my personal Habits and Goals on a monthly basis. Trello (Freemium): Often used as a collaborative workflow tool, Trello is a super simple yet flexible task management solution, across browser, desktop and mobile formats, that can be configured to just about whatever you want, both for work and personal life. At the time of writing this, I technically have 3997 tabs, but only two of those are actually open. You can even save a certain subset of tabs as a named collection to be reopened later. Compress some or all of your browser tabs into a list on a single tab to reduce memory & battery usage, and declutter your browser. OneTab (Free): If you’re currently reading this email and have 20+ tabs open, you have a problem, and OneTab has the solution. ![]() You can even set 'locked' notes or notebooks that require biometric or password unlock. ![]() Notes can be sorted into custom notebooks with your own naming system and cover art, and you can view & search notes by notebook, or view & search your whole collection of notes together. Completely free multimedia notetaking app that syncs across mobile, desktop, browser, allowing you to combine text, photos, audio, checklists, sketching, and file attachments into clean notes with basic markup. Zoho Notebook ( Free): My absolute favourite notetaking app. You can do a bunch of cool things like customise the work and break lengths, set a cadence for longer breaks after a few work blocks, create tasks and track the number of pomodoros it takes to get them done, but my favourite neat design choice is that by turning your phone sideways, the standard circular countdown morphs into a classic digital alarm clock view. There's a ton of Pomodoro apps out there, but focus To-Do is an awesome freemium Pomodoro timer app with a slick UI, available on desktop & mobile. ![]() This is my secret sauce for LinkedIn reachouts to startups & VCs.įocus To-Do (Freemium) : For those unfamiliar with it, the Pomodoro technique is a time management technique consisting of repeated blocks of 25 mins work, 5 mins break (or some other numerical variation). Never again! aText is a text expansion tool that allows you to create shortcuts for snippets of texts, message templates, dates, times & more. I find myself sharing these funky tools so frequently that hecc, why not curate a list of my 10 favourite tools* and share ‘em with you cool humans.ĪText ($7) : Think about how many times you’ve written out the same email template or greeting. There’s so much free/freemium/low-cost software out there that can save you so much time on unnecessary tasks with so little set-up effort. For those who know me well, you’re probably used to putting up with my constant blabbing about some niche app or Chrome Extension to make something more efficient or reduce distractions.
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