HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Marketers: Reclaim Your Time With These Productivity Tips, Tools, and Templates Personal apps and tools (I have found Gmail plug-ins to be the buggiest of all, including those sanctioned by Google and accessible in your Gmail settings menu.) Always add apps one at a time to your toolkit, particularly plug-ins or add-ons designed to function as an appendage to existing apps like Drive, or says Click To Tweet If you add more than one at a time and there’s a problem, you may not understand which one it is. TIP: Always add apps one at a time to your toolkit, particularly plug-ins or add-ons designed to function as an appendage to existing apps like Chrome, Google Drive, or Gmail. (To be fair, I took some vacation time the week prior.) Even better, you can dive into analytics and see where you’re blowing your time. (And it can get ugly.) Look at my screen cap and you’ll see that the week in question was much more productive than the one before it. But the one saving quality of this app is my weekly email that tells me how well I behaved while sitting at my computer. RescueTime has a lot of features I don’t use because they overlap with other apps I prefer. And I’ve noticed the difference in the intervening time. I resubscribed after missing the flow state helps me achieve. (I wish I could remember who recommended it.) I stopped paying the monthly subscription about two years ago when I thought I had found a few similar channels on Pandora. offers “scientifically engineered music proven to increase focus and reduce distractions.” It’s a tool written about in Chief Content Officer magazine years ago. The problem is it somehow linked me to a bunch of people on Messenger that I don’t need to connect with. Yes, Contacts Sync for Gmail does merge all your contacts across multiple platforms and devices so that you can see them all in G-contacts. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 17 IFTTT Recipes to Help Every Content Marketer Work Better Contacts Sync for GmailĬontacts Sync for Gmail (for iPhones) is a tool with which I have a love-hate relationship. Browse the IFTTT library to use applets others have already made. And you don’t have to be a programming whiz to figure it out. For example, I use it to save the receipts received in my Gmail into a folder without having to manually tag them. IFTTT, or If This Then That, helps you align different apps to automate key tasks. (For example, when I type “#FCC,” it populates dial-in instructions and when I type #Yo, it drops in a short paragraph about the details of my business.) (Free) Each blurb of text has a matching abbreviation you choose type that abbreviation into Gmail and the app auto-populates your prepackaged text. Describing what I’m looking for in a freelance writer. Use it to auto-populate text you write repeatedly. Use #EmergentTaskPlanner #tool to write your daily plan BEFORE you open emails, advises #productivity Click To Tweet Auto Text ExpanderĪuto Text Expander is one of those tools I never knew I needed until I got into the swing of it. I like to start with a blank sheet of paper (ETP) rather than staring at a cluttered online to-do list. TIP: Writing my daily plan before I open email helps me focus on what is realistic and necessary. I’ve been using it for years.) (Free and paid I use paid.) The ETP forces you to think clearly about what is realistically possible in one day and to map out how you plan to accomplish each task. I order the ETP pads, which are made with a nice, thick paper and custom inks, from Amazon and use one page per day to organize myself when I arrive at my desk. (Free and paid I use paid) Use to keep track of articles and links for upcoming #content or projects, says #tools #productivity Click To Tweet Emergent Task PlannerĮmergent Task Planner is my favorite low-tech tool from the suite put together by my friend Dave Seah that I cannot live without. Setting up a reasonable folder system is essential to make Evernote work well. On a tip from journalist-turned-marketer Cameron Conaway, I’ve started using it to keep track of articles and links useful for upcoming content or projects. Want Better Content Marketing Management? Try One of These ToolsĮvernote is an oldie but goodie.Helpful Tools to Streamline Your Content Production Process.
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