Use These Tools To Help Reach and Maintain Peak Productivity All Year Long
We all strive to be more productive. It's a never-ending chase that becomes ever-elusive year after year. With endless distractions and stubborn anxieties, our productivity goals can seem almost impossible to reach. This year, let's aim to be as productive as possible while keeping in mind that the best way to stay productive to take care of our mental and physical health. Here are some tools to help us reach and maintain peak levels of productivity.
When it comes to productivity, we all wish for one thing: more time. While we cannot add more hours to the day, keeping track of the time we spend on tasks and projects can give us insight into our performance in terms of productivity. Clockify is a web-based time tracking software that helps you track your time to see if you're productive or if you spend too much time on time-consuming yet trivial activities that could be outsourced or delegated to someone else on your team. The free version is perfect for any group, big or small, but for those who require a more robust time tracker that offers things like branded reports, you can upgrade to the paid versions. While Clockify is primarily a browser app, you can also install it on your Mac OS X as a desktop app to make your time tracking more convenient.
Tracking time is one thing, but staying on top of meetings and conference calls is a whole other story. Enter Google Calendar. With this time-management and scheduling calendar service, you can schedule appointments, organize events, add attachments, and make Hangout video calls. Google Calendar both web-based and available as an iOS and Android app.
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service, with which many of us are very familiar. It is one of the most effective tools for collaboration, and it's super easy to use! Create documents, edit and share them with your team members and clients, and receive real-time feedback and suggestions. Google accounts get 15 GB of storage free, shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Photos. For additional storage, you can upgrade to a premium subscription plan. It is the ultimate tool for seamless collaboration. And with better collaboration comes more productivity. It's a win-win!
As storytellers, nothing hinders our productivity more than revising copy for spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. With Grammarly, we can feel confident in the content we draft. The software tracks writing issues and make context-specific suggestions to help with grammar, spelling, wordiness, style, punctuation, and plagiarism. You can try Grammarly for free by copying and pasting text into a box on the website and adding the Grammarly plugin to Chrome. We invested in the premium version, which offers the full range of features, including checking for tone and clarity improvements.
Whether you fly solo or are part of a larger team, these days, managing and sharing content on your social media platforms are one of our most important tasks. Hootsuite helps you save time by allowing you to create, schedule, plan, publish, monitor, and engage with your audience on multiple platforms, all in one place. There are various plans to choose from, starting with the free version. Paid plans start at $29 per month for a Professional plan and range up to $599 per month for a Business plan.
You've worked hard to define and establish a professional and beautiful brand identity, so you must maintain it when creating your traditional and digital marketing assets. Save time and money with Canva, a powerful, user-friendly graphic design platform that allows users to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, and other content. Access Canva via its website or mobile app. It is also available as a desktop download. The free version offers but plenty, but you can upgrade to the Canva Pro, which includes more fonts, stock photos, and templates if you need a bit more.
As we grow our business, we must keep tabs on brand mentions, track competitors, and stay updated on industry-relevant news. But with everything on our plates, even for PR professionals whose job includes monitoring the news, manually tracking the news is time-consuming and leaves open the possibility of missing important items. With Talkwalker Alerts, you can monitor every mention of your brand and keywords across the internet. Talkwalker Alerts monitors news platforms, blogs, forums, websites, and Twitter. Every new mention of your keyword is captured and sent to your inbox.