7 Excellent Chrome Tools to Enhance Teachers Productivity
December 7, 2016
While the digital world provides us with immense opportunities to enhance our learning and hone in our intellectual skills but it does also pose some serious challenges that can severely undermine our overall productivity. Procrastination and distractions are two of the social ills, among many others, that have been amply aggravated with the growing use of web technologies. To this end, the purpose of our post today is share with you this selection of excellent Chrome extensions that you can use to help you focus and be more productive while browsing the net. We have included add-ons that touch on different areas from time and task management to note taking. Check them out and share with us your feedback. Enjoy
1- Prioritab
‘A new tab page that emphasizes setting priorities. Set your priorities for the day, week and month, and be reminded about them every time you open a new tab!’
2- Google Keep
‘Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things you care about to Keep and have them synced across all of the platforms that you use — including web, Android, iOS, and Wear. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your note for later retrieval.’
3- Add Tasks to Do It (Tomorrow)
‘Using this extension makes it way faster to add simple tasks to your Do it (Tomorrow) todo list. This simple extension adds a button to your browser to quickly jot down a task to do.’
4- Wunderlust New Tab
‘Ideas can strike like lightning. Now when they come to mind, you can instantly capture them just by opening a new tab. The Wunderlist New Tab extension replaces your stock “New Tab” page, so you can easily create and check-off a to-do from your Wunderlist Inbox.’
5- OneTab
“Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.”
6- Save to Google Drive
‘This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action. The directory location and format of saved HTML pages can be controlled with the extension's options page (Choice of Entire image (default), Visible image, Raw HTML, MHTML, or Google Doc). You can automatically convert Microsoft Office files or comma separated files to Google Docs format.’
7- Print Friendly
‘Print Friendly removes ads, navigation and junk before your print. Pages are optimized for the ultimate print reading experience…Click-to-delete any content before printing; remove images or individual images; change the text size from larger to smaller; and generate PDFs for archiving, sharing,’
While the digital world provides us with immense opportunities to enhance our learning and hone in our intellectual skills but it does also pose some serious challenges that can severely undermine our overall productivity. Procrastination and distractions are two of the social ills, among many others, that have been amply aggravated with the growing use of web technologies. To this end, the purpose of our post today is share with you this selection of excellent Chrome extensions that you can use to help you focus and be more productive while browsing the net. We have included add-ons that touch on different areas from time and task management to note taking. Check them out and share with us your feedback. Enjoy
1- Prioritab
‘A new tab page that emphasizes setting priorities. Set your priorities for the day, week and month, and be reminded about them every time you open a new tab!’
2- Google Keep
‘Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things you care about to Keep and have them synced across all of the platforms that you use — including web, Android, iOS, and Wear. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your note for later retrieval.’
3- Add Tasks to Do It (Tomorrow)
‘Using this extension makes it way faster to add simple tasks to your Do it (Tomorrow) todo list. This simple extension adds a button to your browser to quickly jot down a task to do.’
4- Wunderlust New Tab
‘Ideas can strike like lightning. Now when they come to mind, you can instantly capture them just by opening a new tab. The Wunderlist New Tab extension replaces your stock “New Tab” page, so you can easily create and check-off a to-do from your Wunderlist Inbox.’
5- OneTab
“Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.”
6- Save to Google Drive
‘This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting 'Save to Google Drive'. You can save the currently viewed page using the 'Save to Google Drive' browser action. The directory location and format of saved HTML pages can be controlled with the extension's options page (Choice of Entire image (default), Visible image, Raw HTML, MHTML, or Google Doc). You can automatically convert Microsoft Office files or comma separated files to Google Docs format.’
7- Print Friendly
‘Print Friendly removes ads, navigation and junk before your print. Pages are optimized for the ultimate print reading experience…Click-to-delete any content before printing; remove images or individual images; change the text size from larger to smaller; and generate PDFs for archiving, sharing,’
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