Best Chrome Extensions for Professionals + Power Users
It’s 5pm and you’re squinting at your monitor’s screen — opening up yet another Chrome tab whilst simultaneously trying to keep track of your notes, emails, and notifications that never seem to stop piling up. Wait, it’s already 5pm?! Where did the day go? Didn’t you just get here?
We know that feeling all too well. So, we set out to find the solution…and found it in these Google Chrome extensions. Here are the best Chrome extensions for powering through your work day.
st-tech Guide to Chrome Browser Extensions
Toby Tab Manager
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One of the best Chrome extensions for enhancing productivity while you browse the web is Toby Tab Manager.
With Toby, you can create lists of tabs and organize them by label (i.e. client, meeting, topic, etc). This ultimately helps you keep track of your Chrome browser activity. Other notable features can be found in the Toby icon in the Google extension bar. The most useful Toby Tabs features for power users include:
Adding your current webpage to a Toby list
Saving all your open tabs as a session and closing them
Deep search your browser and tab history
If your Chrome browser is usually filled with more than a few tabs try Toby. This Google Chrome extension is a winner when it comes to enhancing productivity while you browse the web hitting the Open In A New Tab key.
Kami PDF + Document Markup
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Chrome extension PDF viewers are rarely as efficient and navigable as Kami. Kami is a relatively new addition to the Chrome Web Store that lets you view, annotate, and share PDFs on Chrome. Kami is a HUGE productivity booster for those receiving, managing, and sending documents everyday. This PDF Google Chrome extension has a beautifully straightforward interface that’s easy and quick to explore. Kami is packed with tons of markup features including:
Add, highlight, underline, and strike-through text
Add comments and collaborate in real-time
Insert e-signatures, images, and shapes
Freehand drawing and voice annotation
If you’re *really* sick of downloading PDFs to your work computer just to mark them up in Adobe and re-upload the annotations — download Kami.
Gorgias Email Templates + Shortcuts
Gorgias is a Google Chrome Extension to create text templates and insert them into your emails via shortcut keys. Gorgias is for those who find themselves writing the same emails over and over again. Gorgias’ email templates allow you to respond in seconds while still making the message personalized.
How? The magic is in custom variables — such as {{to.0.first_name}} for using your recipient’s first name as a greeting. You’ll end up saving time writing emails after creating your own snippets and templates. Gorgias email extension works with the following clients: Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Inbox by Google, SalesForce Service Cloud, Zendesk, Freshdesk, and more. With Gorgias, your templates are accessible by typing your shortcut and pressing TAB. Download this Chrome email extension to get that much closer to achieving Inbox Zero.
Bonus Extension: Data Saver
Data Saver is a Google Chrome extension that can actually help lower your phone bill by loading webpages faster if you’re dealing with a slow connection. Data Saver is definitely one of the most useful Chrome extensions for professionals and power users. When you use Data Saver, Google takes the load off your device’s data consumption. How? Google filters your browsing traffic through its servers so data gets downloaded to your device after it’s been compressed.
Add this extension to your Google extension bar to optimize your time at work with faster browsing speeds and less accumulated data.
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