Chrome is known for it’s simplicity and easy to use interface. The browser can do much more than just internet browsing. The robust platform supports numerous plugins and extensions. You can check your internet banking and even shop online while surfing the web. Today we have listed top 5 Chrome Extensions to boost your work productivity.
1. Grammarly
Grammarly is a spell and plagiarism checker tool. The Chrome extension will help you with your grammatical and spelling errors as you are typing. The extension is smart enough to give relevant suggestions as well.
2. Pocket
The popular read-it-later tool, Pocket has their own extension for Google Chrome. You can bookmark the links and read them later. It is as easy as bookmarking a webpage. The best part is, it can be accessed from anywhere. Pocket has cross-platform presence. You can clip the link on Chrome extension and read it from Android or iOS app.
3. Mail Checker Extension
Google’s Mail Checker extension is a smart tool that alerts you when you receive an email. You need to configure your Gmail account with the extension. It is a great way to get notified about your emails.
4. Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus is a life-saver tool that blocks pop ups and ads. The extension adds a small button next to the URL bar which reads the count of how many ads you have blocked. An interesting feature is, it also blocks annoying ads on YouTube. You can flawlessly enjoy the video content without ads.
5. OneTab
OneTab extension replaces your existing tabs in Chrome. It is a great way to deal with multiple tabs in Chrome. The single OneTab shows a table of content for your open Chrome tabs. You can even open all the tabs at once. The extension intelligently saves the cached data of the tabs, you can select ‘Restore All’ to take yourself back to where you were. OneTab reduces the amount of system memory that Chrome consumes.
Great article, thanks. I didn't know about Pocket, I will definitely try it out. As an entrepreneur i'm always trying to manage my time in the best way possible. What I have found to be the ultimate productivity hack is to setup a personalized browser start page with all the links and RSS feeds I frequently use. I'm using https://start.me for this and it saves me a few hours per week easily.
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