Top 10 tools that will make you more productive today
Jill Taylor at 12:34 GMT on 28 June 2010
Our CEO’s been busy thinking about what makes him productive in the office. What sparked it off is that it’s evident that as a result of the recession businesses are looking for different, smarter ways to do things. Here’s his list of top ten productivity applications for use in the workplace. But what do you think?
1. Mindjet – A personal productivity and collaboration solution that is great for aiding the generation and management of ideas by visually connecting information and people to solve business issues. Most importantly it enables engagement and the chance to see the bigger picture.
2. Hootsuite – For both personal and business use, social networks are becoming increasingly hard to track – no more so than Twitter. Hootsuite allows you to track multiple twitter accounts, as well as keyword mentions, track statistics, and search through the twittersphere. On top of this, you can also update numerous social media platforms, such as LinkedIn and Facebook at the same time.
3. gDoc Fusion 2.5 – gDoc Fusion is a quick and easy to use desktop software application that allows multiple incompatible files to be merged into a single document through a simple drag and drop action. Users simply drag files into gDoc Fusion, pick the pages they want and press save – no extra formatting or conversion is required. Of course, it is our software, so I would use it! If you work with documents made from a variety of programs, such as Power Point, Excel, PDFs and other file formats, you might wish you could integrate them into one document. gDoc Fusion might be what you need.
4. The iPad – Having sold 3 million in its first 80 days on the market, the iPad has been heralded as the best way to experience web, email, photos and videos on the move – a significant development to enhance mobile productivity.
5. Mozy – Probably the best online backup tool, works quietly in the background, so no need to be constantly saving extra copies to server or CD.
6. KeePass – The list of passwords you need to remember sometimes seems endless. KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords with a single master key – so no need to remember all those passwords anymore!
7. Pen and Paper – There’s a reason why over 14 million Bic biros are manufactured every single day. One of the greatest tools for tracking goals, or even monitoring your daily to-do list is using a pen and paper. Besides, you can’t beat the feel of a moleskin notebook.
8. Texter – Texter is another very powerful tool that lets you type a few characters and expand it into a full word, sentence or whatever you want. You can type “RAM” and have that expand into “Ramon Ray” saving you hours of typing per week.
9. TaskCoach - Task Coach is a simple open source to-do manager to help keep track of personal tasks and to-do lists. Plus, it works across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, as well as iPhones and the iPod Touch – making your to-do list accessible anywhere!
10. Lifehacker – Not necessarily a tool, but one of the best places online to find ways to improve your productivity, looking at everything from software, right down to how you lay out your desk.
