Why the Chrome to Kindle plugin is my best productivity hack in 2016
Ahhh productivity, one of the biggest buzzword in the last years, especially as people struggle to get things done and get more and more distracted. A lot of articles will tell you to wake up at 5am to clear your mind, walk in the park or organize your to-dos - but sometimes little tricks make all the difference!
If you haven’t done it already, turn off all your Facebook and Twitter notifications, that would be a good start :-)
But my biggest pain until recently was the amount of articles I had open in my browser. I realized I never read them or when I tried to it was never the right moment. It felt very frustrating as I found more and more good stuff to read from GrowthHackers.com, Medium and others.
But during your day, you need to ship, deliver or hustle — as Gary Vaynerchuk likes to say.
Let’s get into it: Amazon released their Google Chrome plugin to send any article you’re reading in 1 click to your Kindle account. Sounds trivial? Well, it changed my productivity and the numbers of articles I actually read, as well as decluttering my Chrome tabs.
Install the Chrome to Amazon plugin by clicking here
Now the rule is simple: everything that is more than 2 screens high to read, I send to my Kindle in 1 click. Then I read them either during my commute or at night before actually reading a book (yes books are still interesting :-))
Also, think about the reading efficiency on your Kindle; you’ll get through these articles much faster as you’ll have no ads, no cross-links and no notifications around your content.
You can use the specific email address that Amazon is offering to send those PDFs, Guides and similar long reads to your Kindle as well — instead of building the biggest collection of business PDFs on your hard drive. You know those files you actually give your email for but never really read them.
Enjoy and please comment if you have more advice to share. Picking the right moment to do the right stuff is key — and sometimes tools can help, but it’s up to you to define the what/when/how.
