If you are using Google Chrome. And if you want to improve your productivity, then you are at the right place. I n this article about the Top 10 productivity extensions for google chrome.
Google translate
Google translate extension is very useful when you regularly read pages that are in different languages. This extension translates the whole page into your desired language in which you are comfortable to read.
When You are reading in your language, It decreases your reading time and you understand things better. Google Translate supports more than 100 types of language.
This extension translates in 2 ways either it translates the selected word or the whole page.
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Save to google drive
Save to google drive extension is very helpful when you want to save images, web content, links, video, and pdf directly to your google drive account from the web.
You can also take screenshots of a web page by clicking on extensions in multiple ways i.e. image of the entire page, image of the visible page, HTML source, web archive, and Google document.
This extension allows you to save links, images, and other media with a left mouse click. And it shows the option of saving to drive and by clicking on that option it saves links and images directly to your drive.
When your file is saved, this extension also shows the option to open, rename and view the file.
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Todoist
Todoist extension help in organizing and maintaining a to-do list. This extension is also available on different devices like on the web, Android and ios devices, and even on apple watch.
To use this extension, first you need to sign up on its official website. And then login into your account. And it started to sync your all task you created through other platforms.
This extension allows you to add a website as a task or blog post to your reading list. And you can Check them off your task when completed directly from your extension.
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Note Board
Note Board extension allows you to take sticky notes easily. This extension is very easy to use and has a lot of features. And by creating an account and logging in, you can save your notes for future use.
This extension also has backup and restore features. This extension has some stickers that you can use to decorate or relate notes.
This extension doesn’t need an active internet connection for its functioning. The note board allows you to take notes directly when you are reading an article by clicking ctrl+shift+1.
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Forest
Forest is a very simple extension used to stay focused. In this extension, you create two lists of websites one is allowed and the other is block one. It helps in beating internet addiction.
This extension starts a timer for 10 minutes and it is called a planting session. During the planting session, you have two options to choose from for accessing the website either choose the allowed website or the blocklist website option.
The allowed list has a list of website which is allowed during the planting session. And the blocked list has a list of website which is blocked during the planting session.
Forest extension even allows you to write and save quick notes and offers some categories for notes also.
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Swift Read
Swift read extension read the content for you. To use swift read, just press alt+v, and it opens the media player type window and starts reading content. It can also read the selected text.
This extension can also read pasted content into it. For this, you have to copy a text then paste it into the swift read extension, and press shift+enter. And swift Read starts reading it for you.
Using Swift read, you can train yourself to read up to 400 words per minute. This extension not help only to read content from the web but it can read pdf, epub, and kindle books available on the kindle cloud reader.
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Grammarly
Grammarly extension help in writing better content. This extension helps in correcting words and grammatical errors.
Grammarly can work without a login. But if log in it provides some extra features like in the Free version, a tone detector, and auto-citation. And in the premium version, clarity-focused sentence rewriting, tone adjustments, vocabulary improvement, fluency suggestions, and additional advanced suggestions.
Sometimes, When you write something you press the wrong key and your words miss spelled and maybe form grammatical errors. So in this case this extension is very helpful. It highlights the word and suggests the right words or missing words.
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Picture in Picture
Picture in Picture extension is developed by google itself. This extension allows you to watch videos in floating windows. It is very useful when you want to keep an eye on video while working on another tab or another application.
The keyboard shortcut key for this extension is Alt+P. This extension has also a feature to resize the floating window of video. Picture in Picture is helpful for students in taking notes while watching lectures.
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Time notes
Time notes extension is an easy-to-use activity tracker. This extension support other applications like Asana, Basecamp, ToDoist, Trello, and manual tracking.
To use this extension, you need to log in with your times notes account. If you don’t have an account with time notes, you have to create one.
The main demerit of this extension is that it won’t track your work automatically. You have to manually start the timer for the task. And you can not add projects or tasks using extensions. For this, you need to go to the official website and their create a project and task and only then you can use them in an extension.
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Docs Creator
Docs Creator helps in creating new docs, sheets, slides, and viewing google drive directly from the chrome browser menu.
To use this extension, you need to sign in using your Google account.
Google Drive is a very good app but it is too heavy. Docs creators solve this problem by removing unused features and focusing on usability.
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