How to get productive @ your work | Top 5 Useful Google Chrome Extensions | Self-Improvement | Productivity

Rohit Sharma
ReaderLeader
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4 min readNov 22, 2019
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Everyone is running behind the one motto, getting better at what they are doing.

Everyone has different reasons to become better, some like competing with their own self. Treating themselves as competition.

Winning their game, Getting attention, money, promotion, rewards etc.

Showing people off about their betterment.

Look better in front of other gender, their crushes, to probably convert.

But sometimes we miss on some very small and important tricks or tech solutions that can make our lives easy.

Let us quickly get started and solve small daily encountering problems for everyone of you.

#1 Grammarly

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Problems it targets

Does your boss asks you to review your emails before sending to senior management?

Do people point the spelling mistakes in your status updates or emails?

Do you miss out on very important and small prepositions, punctuation, grammatical errors.

We offer a very effective solution.

How it solves the problem

This works along with your typing and construction of emails, status updates, articles, blog posts etc.
It will highlight the mistakes on the go and will give you one click suggestions to rectify them, just like below:

Below YouTube video explains it very well.

Install Grammarly now at

Grammarly for Chrome
Enhance your written communication everywhere you type!chrome.google.com

#2 Todoist

Problems it targets

Do you always forget your tasks?
Do you miss out on timelines?
Are you not able to keep track of priority tasks?
Are you not able to plan your days to come?

How it solves the problem

  1. You can add your tasks and mark them complete when done.
  2. You can prioritize tasks and set reminders to never miss the task.
  3. You can track your performance and the tasks you did in past. This will help you analyze your performance.
  4. It stays synced on all platforms/devices. So you can keep track of all tasks on the go as well.

Below official YouTube video explains it all.

Install it here:

Todoist: To-Do list and Task Manager
Todoist is the beautifully simple to-do list designed to help you do more and stress less.chrome.google.com

#3 The Great Suspender

Problems it targets

Do you always open so many tabs in your browser?
Does it slow down your browser?

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How it solves the problem

  1. This extension will suspend the tabs which are not in use and will reduce the RAM usage and hence your browser and system will stop hanging.
  2. You can set the idle time after which the tabs will get suspended.
  3. You can also white-list the domains for which you do not want suspend feature.
  4. The audio/video playing tabs are not suspended.
    Moreover, you can customize it to your needs and yup you are good to go!

Below are the results:

You can see it reduced memory footprint of all the other apps (shown as faded in the Afterimage)

Install from here

The Great Suspender
Automatically suspends unused tabs to free up system resourceschrome.google.com

#4 OneTab

Problems it targets

Do you always open so many tabs in your browser?
Do you find it difficult to find tabs you want to switch to?

How it solves the problem

  1. 95% memory reduction.
  2. Easy management of tabs, organize your tabs better and clear.

Install it here:

OneTab
Save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutterchrome.google.com
Install it here:

#5 Save to Pocket

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Problems it targets

Do you fall short of reading articles on the go and wanting to read it later?
Do you want to keep any article on web for future reference?
Do you want to ready any article you found on mobile on a different screen, say your big screen Laptop?

How it solves the problem

  1. One-click save any article on the web.
  2. Quickly add tags to saved posts and categorize for later reading.
  3. Sync and access it on any device/platform.
  4. Find pocket recommendations according to your taste.

Install it here:

Save to Pocket
Pocket Extension for Chrome — The best way to save articles, videos and morechrome.google.com

I hope the above extensions will help you achieve productivity and you become better in your work or anything you like to do.

I will share more extensions related for socially active people, writers, developers, designers etc in the near future.

Hit claps and share to your friends and network, if you find any of the meaningful chrome app.

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Rohit Sharma
ReaderLeader

Author at ReaderLeader | Engineering leader at Amazon Go | 10+ years if industry experience