10 apps that will boost your productivity

There is no denyng that technology has indeed made life a whole easier, especially with the advent of smartphones and apps that can track almost anything from how much time you spend on Facebook, to the amount of times your heart beats per second.

However, not all that technology offers is particularly useful so here are 10 app that will help you maximize your productivity:

1. Freedom: This is an app that shuts down websites and apps that may be distracting you for a certain period of time. Users can select which sites are to be allowed, which sites are to be blocked, and can also shut down their browser if they can’t stop surfing.

2. Headspace: Research shows that that the more mindful techniques you apply, the better your productivity. The Headspace app provides you with guided meditation that teaches you how to achieve clarity and calmness in just 10 minutes each day.

3. Metal Workout: This is an app that has 5 different functions aimed at helping you improve a part of your mental fitness. Each of these are developed with the help of specialist, like the ‘Good Night’ function which was developed by a clinical psychologist and fellow at the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

4. Rescue Time: Most times when we look back on our day, we find it hard to pin point the particular task that took so long or what distracted us the most. This app allows users track their daily activities and generates reports to help you analyze weaknesses and set goals to improve them. It then adapts to track users progress according to the set goals.

5. Trello: Assigning, tracking and organizing tasks for a team can be time consuming. Trello brings more productivity to both individual and team projects, making it easy to assign, monitor and discard projects once completed.

6. Google Docs: This apps let teams create online spreadsheets, presentations, or documents together.

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7. Yammer: It is very tough to communicate with a distributed workforce. This app brings teams together so they can collaborate efficiently and communicate. Team members can also easily switch between projects and share what they have learned.

8. FullContact: Contact management is a time consuming endeavor and the old way of remembering and organizing contacts is totally out of fashion. This app lets you scan or take a picture of a business card and it automatically uploads the contact to your database in about fifteen minutes.

9. Weave: In spite of the fact that we have LinkedIn and Facebook now, expanding your professional network can still be challenging. This app lets you first expand your network online, then meet your new contacts in real life.

10. Meetup: This app makes it easier to start a group or connect with a new or existing group by connecting members with shared interests to events that fit their schedules. It helps improve your network outreach efforts.