17 Best Chrome extension you need to have for 10x productivity

When you buy a new smartphone. What you do first?

You install all the apps you want.

Just as different apps enhances the functionalities of your smartphone.

Similarly, extensions are small apps that does same for your web browser.

Chrome is no doubt the best web browser in the market.

Just as a smartphone feels empty without the important apps. Chrome without good extensions are no good.

So, have you ever thought how to enhance your chrome capabilities for better productivity?

If YES.

Then, here’s the list of best chrome extension that will boost your productivity 10 times.

Let’s start.

1. Evernote

Evernote is a feature-rich collaboration and document organization tool used by over 150 million people.

It excels at organizing large amount of notes, articles, and files of all types, allowing you to access them from multiple devices and share them with team members.

It’s a must have tool for anyone who spends a lot of time online. Best part it’s free and you can optimize it according to your needs.

The Web Clipper allows you to clip full webpage, or simplified text only version of the webpage.

You can also add annotations with text, arrows, highlight a part, add tags before saving it.

The notes can be organized into stacks too. So, you can organize notes based on topics and its subtopics.

For instance, I have a stack called “Swipe File” and inside it I have several notebooks like Headlines, opening paragraphs, closing paragraphs, metaphors etc.

2. Pocket

At times, we are in hurry and don't have time to read articles at the moment. And we don't want to miss on to those articles.

Well, Pocket simplifies this task by saving all the articles at one place, so that you can read it later.

You can access it from multiple devices, so from now on you won't miss on something important.

It formats the saved article in easy to read form. You can add tags for organizing the articles and easy searching.

It helps a lot in research. You can save all the important articles at one place, on the go. And review it later.

3. Grammarly

Writing an article, message, mails or post. Be it anything. It gives a very bad impression of you, if there's grammatical or spelling mistake.

Grammarly is one such tool that saves a ton of effort while editing and correcting your language.

It's quite simple to use. Just type as you do and grammarly will take care of the rest.

Once done typing, it will highlight all the typos in red and provide you the suggestions to correct it.

It gets integrated with multiple platform. It also provides you with synonyms and meaning of the words on the go.

4. Feedly

Now don’t get lost while surfing the internet. With feedly you can access all your favourite blogs at one place.

Feedly Mini is a Chrome browser extension that keeps you connected to your feedly, allowing you to easily save, tag, share or subscribe to the great content you find each day.

Feedly is the world’s most popular RSS and blog reader with more than 15 millions users. RSS re-invented.

Select the blogs you want to read. Define the category for grouping the channels. That’s it.

Its available for multiple platform so no worries. If you are on your smartphone or PC.

It will provide you with all the latest post from the selected blogs on the go.

You can create different feeds and boards to organise the feed from different source.

5. Buffer

If you are into Social media marketing and still posting posts manually across the different platforms, then it's time to stop wasting your time and efforts.

Buffer is here to help.

Buffer is a better way to publish your updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and more. It also tracks results and analyzes everything you share for you.

It’s quite powerful multi-platform post scheduling application. Once you connect different social media platform to it. All you need to do is, just buffer it.

The post are automatically scheduled to all the linked social media platform with just one click.

Apart from that it has its own analytics that will provide you with the performance data of the posts.

Based on the data, it also suggest you the perfect time to post for maximum engagement.

6. Session Box

Now if you have multiple accounts then you must have faced the problem of logging in and logging out all the time.

Session Box solves this problem in seconds. Just one click and it creates a new session for the site you want.

Use one browser with multiple active sessions per site. Log into multiple accounts on the same site simultaneously. No more need for secondary browsers, private sessions, let SessionBox handle these for you.

Your sessions are securely synchronised between your devices by using your SessionBox account. Start a session here and continue it in any other chrome browser.

All your sessions are saved automatically so from next time just click on the saved session. What a relief.

7. Trello

Now planning is the key to proper implementation of goals you want to achieve.

Trello is the visual collaboration platform that gives teams perspective on projects. It helps to collaborate, communicate and coordinate on all of your projects.

It gives you the birds eye view of your entire project. It's just like a visual version of the project boards.

The lists are laid out horizontally and the items called cards can be dragged and dropped onto other lists or reordered within lists.

Trello cards are like sticky notes you arrange on a cork board — that is, digital sticky notes that are searchable, shareable, and come with reminders.

Create Trello cards directly from Chrome without ever going to Trello and hunting down the board and the list.

8. Google Calendar

Now to keep up to the tasks Google calendar is really helpful as it integrates with all the devices.

Its really really easy to use you can easily create events and get reminder and organize your publishing or meetings.

You can easily check Google Calendar and add new events from websites you visit.

You will get a button on your browser toolbar that you can easily click to see upcoming events from Google Calendar, without ever leaving your page.

And if you’re on sites that have special events encoded, you can click the button to instantly add events to your calendar. The button shows an orange plus sign whenever there are events on the page you’re viewing that can be added to your calendar.

With its material UI you will and smooth flow you will just love it.

9. Ghostery

Now in the digital world privacy is utmost important. So, if you want to surf the web as a ghost, use ghostery.

Ghostery, is really powerful tool to prevent all the trackers on any webpage. It's really easy and simple to use. You can customise what trackers you want to block and what not to block.

DETECT

Ghostery sees the ‘invisible’ web, detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by Facebook, Google, and over 500 other ad networks, behavioural data providers, web publishers — all companies interested in your activity.

CONTROL

Ghostery allows you to block scripts, images, objects and framed documents from companies that you don’t trust.

PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY

Ghostery is built and maintained for users that care about their online privacy, and is engineered with privacy as a primary goal.

Ghostery use is anonymous. No registrations or sign-ups are required. The Ghostery plug-in does not place cookies on your browser.

Ghostery never receives any data from Ghostery users unless the user opts-in to participate in Ghostrank.

10. Discoverly

Are you searching for people profile across the different social media platform manually.

Wait, here an amazing solution by Discoverly that will automatically do that for you.

Its great for a job hunter, sales, recruiting, entrepreneurs and anyone looking to find an email address.

It saves a lot of time and effort. It automatically scans your mail, facebook or twitter profiles and suggests you the links to profile on other social networks.

11. Momentum

Now if you are bored with seeing the same new tab on chrome then it's time to try Momentum.

Momentum adds a bunch of useful widgets to your new tab that should help you plan your day easily and reach your immediate goals.

You’ll find a clock, the local weather, a to-do list and a customizable shortcut menu of links hovering above a beautiful background image that changes every so often.

The new tab page gives you a moment of calm and inspires you to be more productive.

Set a daily focus, track your to dos, and get inspired with a daily photo and quote.

Eliminate distractions and beat procrastination with a reminder of your focus for the day on every new tab load. Join over 2.5 million users and get inspired to create the life you want to live.

So, keep you mind fresh everyday with this extension.

12. Screencastify

Screen recording is a must when you are into creating how to contents for youtube and other channels.

Screencastify makes this task simple and user friendly.

LITE VERSION (FREE FOREVER)
▸ 10 minute recording limit per video
▸ 50 videos per month
▸ Screencastify watermark

PREMIUM FEATURES
▸ Unlimited recording time and videos
▸ No watermark
▸ Export as MP4 and GIF
▸ Crop / trim video
▸ Priority support

🎥 Record
▸ Desktop, browser tab or webcam capture
▸ Narrate with your microphone’s audio
▸ Customize your resolution and FPS
▸ Embed your webcam into the screencast

✄ Edit
▸ Annotate your screen with a pen tool
▸ Focus a spotlight on your mouse
▸ Crop your recording (Premium)
▸ Trim your recording (Premium)

🚀 Share
▸ Videos automatically save to Google Drive
▸ Publish directly to YouTube
▸ Save and manage videos locally
▸ Export as .mp4 or animated gif (Premium)

How do people use Screencastify for screen recording and capture?

📈 Marketers:
▸ Users prefer video over any other medium
▸ Create how to’s, presentations, demos, etc
▸ Share an engaging brand message

👥 Account Managers:
▸ Speed up communication and save money
▸ Create 30 second demos for clients
▸ No more repetitive explanatory emails

13. Google Input Tools

Want to type in different language no problem with Google Input Tool integration that’s just so simple.

Choose the language of your choice.

Now type the words of that language in english. That's it. Google will take care of the rest.

Switch to typing in a different language with the click of the mouse, and switch back just as easily.

The Google Input Tools extension provides virtual keyboards for over 90 languages, full IMEs or direct transliteration for over 30 different scripts, and handwriting input for over 40 languages.

14. Google Translate

Don’t know the language. No worries. Just install Google Translate extension. You can read most of the languages of the world.

Just choose the language in which you want to convert. Simple.

This extension adds a button to your browser toolbar. Click the translate icon whenever you want to translate the page you’re visiting.

The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you’re on is different from the language you’re using for your Google Chrome interface.

If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. Click the Translate button in the banner to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.

15. AdBlock

AdBlock may be the most popular Google Chrome extension out there.

Too many ads while surfing the net can be annoying. So here’s a simple and effective solution.

With AdBlock extension you can break through all the unwanted noise and focus on the content.

It has options to enable or disable on particular sites or domain. So you can easily set it according to your preference.

AdBlock also works with Safari, Opera, and Firefox if you don’t have Chrome.

16. Mighty Text

While on PC nobody wants to switch over to their smartphones for replying to text messages.

Mightytext saves you by providing an interface between your PC and android device so that you can send and receive messages from your PC.

Apart from that you can see the battery left, dial any no from PC. You Sync photos and video too.

All you need to do is to install the app on your smartphone and install the extension on chrome.

You can even text a lot of people at once from one screen.

17. Google Keep

All though, Evernote does all the advance note taking job for you.

Still sometimes, all you need to do is quickly jot down something, without much distraction.

So, Google keep is simple and clutter free, to take down notes.

Apart from that you can also save links, list, reminders. You can also tag the notes for better search and organization.

Hope the aboves list help you save time and become more productive.

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