How to Boost Your Productivity?

If you are as well-familiar with procrastination and over-multitasking as I am, check out RescueTime. The app enables me to set my daily or weekly goals and receive an email with a final report on my performance and productivity score. It also enables blocking distracting websites and notifications, getting reminders about goals and deadlines, or setting an alarm to control the time I spend scrolling Facebook. RescueTime gives me a broader perspective on how I use my precious time and helps to boost productivity. There is also a corporate version of the app available.

I have been looking for something super simple but effective to motivate me to become more self-disciplined and organized, and MyMinutes has become the optimal solution! Its functionality is limited to setting the minimum and maximum time I want to spend on a certain task, choosing days on which I want to repeat it, and sending timely notifications. Having achieved a goal, I build a motivational streak, so I am eager to take up the next day challenge to keep the streak going. The design is ultra simplistic not to distract me from the main goal ― to have the things done.

CommitTo3 helps managers and leaders boost productivity and accountability of the team. This app enables us to connect a team of users, each of whom makes a daily commitment to complete three major tasks. When someone finishes all the three objectives, all the team members receive an email alert. We log our own progress and observe the one of our colleagues. In these circumstances, there is no room left for procrastination and laziness.

Tracking project time and expenses, scheduling meetings and events, and paying our team members on merit became easier with Harvest. It is a project management app that works across various platforms and unites the team around a mutual goal. Looking back at our experiences, we are able to optimize future projects, to prevent people from burning out, to identify the most devoted employees to reward, and to find those who may take more work on their plate.

Creating effective visuals used to be difficult for my colleagues as they had neither skills nor tools. They would approach me with those tasks, but at some point, I realized that I could not manage all the workload. This is when I came across Canva ― a web-based platform with a variety of templates and embedded functions for the creative minds to implement their ideas. I shared this discovery with my colleagues, and my life became so much easier. Making a diagram, a chart, a mind map, or a poster, illustrating a process flow or SWOT analysis findings, creating banners, book covers, or comic strips has never been that simple even for a person with no skills in design.

The marketing process is easy and free of mess with CoSchedule. The app facilitates business communication, social media management, and project planning, so you can leave behind numerous spreadsheets and calendars. The major features include Marketing Calendar, Social Media Scheduling, Marketing Campaigns, Email Marketing, Analytics, tools for Project Workflow and Team Management, and other ways to increase productivity.

I love Basecamp because it enables me to create a task, assign responsible people and a deadline, notify them with a Basecamp reminder, and monitor the real-time progress. It helps to reduce the time spent on meetings and to organize work more efficiently. Communication with a client or an external partner also becomes easier through automatic notifications, embedded emails, and shared file storage.

Slack is a trusted business communication platform, which unites millions of daily users. Communication in Slack is organized in channels by projects, topics, teams, or whatever criteria you choose. It can be integrated with other tools and services used on a daily basis. File exchange, voice calls, video conferences, and screen sharing are also supported to increase your productivity.

Trello is a renowned platform for teamwork organization and for personal planning. We create a dashboard with a few sections featuring cards organized in thematic columns. For instance, we may organize our tasks in “To Do”, “Doing”, and “Done” or “Low priority”, “Medium priority”, and “High priority” sections; analyze “Pros” and “Cons” of a certain decision; or divide the assignments between “Bohdana”, “Iryna”, and “Ilona”. Trello also has noteworthy alternatives: a reputable Asana and a super-simplified Kanban Flow.

I am keen to discover new facts and ideas, but a tough schedule does not let me read as much as I would like. Blinkist is the solution I was looking for. It enables me to listen to books or podcasts while on the go. The Blinkist library contains over 2,500 samples, and it is updated on a monthly basis. My favorite categories are Communication Skills and Personal Growth although such sections as History, Psychology, or Management also contain a lot of interesting podcasts to listen to. What I also enjoy about the tool is that it synchronizes across various devices so that I am always able to access it regardless of where I am.

If you like the features offered by all the aforementioned apps but want to see them together in one place ― try out ProofHub. Here, you may find dashboards and workflow charts, file review and feedback sharing features, resources and projects reports. You create tasks, assign responsible people, set deadlines, and define the level of privacy for each entry. Time tracker is also integrated to increase your productivity. As the platform is multilingual, it became an indispensable business tool for more than 85 thousand companies across the globe.

My greatest compliments go to Notion for its elegance, simplicity, and multifunctionality. The idea of this web platform is to spare a user the headache of switching between innumerable tabs in the browser and to integrate all the key business tools in one application. Notion can replace Google Docs, Evernote, Confluence, GitHub, Trello, Asana, Jira, or Google Sheets. If you are not ready to let your favorite apps and platforms go or the synchronization process seems pretty daunting, Notion enables you to integrate your current tools, including Slack, Google Drive, Maps, GitHub, and Twitter. This app is the best way to let the entire team see the whole picture and understand the work-flow of a project.

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