Now that we are on the information and digital advancement era, all that we do are associated with technologies. Hence, the convenience brought by our smartphones and laptops had compromised our focus due to social media interacts.
In the past few days, are you bothered because your productivity is diminishing? Always feeling distracted and habitually procrastinates? Hmmm.. I have list of not-so underrated apps that will surely increase your productivity. These are mostly applicable to students and also, to working people.
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1Evernote
Evernote is a digital journal where you can write your notes and attach photos for convenience. I also use this app for studying because I can access and highlight my PDF files. Also, it has a to-do list which guides in your deadlines and day-to-day errands. The strength of this app is to organize your files and enable quick searches of your notes.
Its premium version offers a lot more convenient features like all your devices are synched. -
2Google Drive
Google image Google drive can replace your 1TB external hard drives. Some institutions provide unlimited cloud space where you can store documents, presentations, movies, videos, and photos. Best thing about Google drive it is on the internet which means its cloud storage is very convenient. Very useful for businesses and for group projects because it allows file sharing.
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3Expense Tracker
Financially literacy in today's generation is a must. Expense Tracker enables to track your expenses and will help you realize where your allowance or salary is being spent. Respectively, this will help you manage your savings as well.
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4Canva
Canva is more on a third party website yet there is an app available for this. This useful for presentations and graphic designs for various academics and business requirements such as brochure, business cards and even resumes.
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5Grammarly
Credit Grammarly makes your work free from grammar errors. Just drag your work and it explains the corrections the app made for your works. Of course, you still need to double check your work because human as we are, we are more capable of thinking than the apps. Also, this app adjusts your grammar or writing skill depending on your format, audience ,and purpose of the write-up.
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6Mendeley
Mendeley is the best app for research. This saves your time in creating bibliographies for references and even citations. I am currently using this for my thesis and I tell you it really saves time.
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7Forest
Forest app is more on anti-distraction app. It is a game where you can't touch your phone or gadgets ( to refrain you from scrolling on social media during study or work hours). If you exit the app while it is planting trees during your allotted time for work, the planting tree will eventually die.
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8Google Calendar
Google Calendar reminds you ahead of time the deadlines and activities your up to. Allow this app to be synched on your different gadgets using Gmail account so that you will not forget your schedules.
There are more apps that can surely increase productivity and concentration. However, aforementioned apps are free for both iOs and Android users, and also to Windows for PCs. I hope this article helps you and share this to save some hardworking souls as well. Happy working!
