This tool is a simple tool that can help you organize yourself when you start your computer. It may even actually help your computer run faster when you’re using it. It’s called OneTab. It can be found here: one-tab.com

Decluttering your computer websites can help not only your computer’s memory and speed but yours too - it can help you forget about other sites open and feel more organized and focused on the task at hand.

See how you can use OneTab by going to a list of tools that were covered in the productivity tools series of episodes: bit.ly/digtools-onetab

Toggl is excellent for tracking time but it can be a little difficult to add a lot of information to tasks or collaborate on projects there and set goals. 

Trello is great for tracking all of this and helping you organize your time but it doesn’t do a great job of keeping you on task, tracking the time you spent and analyzing that time so precisely in and of itself.

These tools really do compliment each other nicely when you want to be more productive with your time.

Check out trello.com and toggl.com to learn more about these tools.

As the name implies this tool aims to help you focus when you want to zone in on a project.

They have used neuroscience to develop music that you can play to enhance your focus. 

If you struggle to quickly get into a productive state of mind then this tool is well worth trying.

You can learn more at focusatwill.com.

Sometimes it just never seems like there is enough time. Other times it may feel like you just can’t focus with the time that you do have.

The Pomodoro Technique and the tools to help you use it can tackle both problems. 

It can prevent you from being too perfectionist and also give you the drive and focus to spend enough time to get something done.

Related to Parkinson’s Law - the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion this technique gets you productively working for blocks of time, traditionally 25 minutes, and then taking a break.

Tools mentioned:

toggl.com

tomato-timer.com

marinaratimer.com

tomato.es

This series of episodes are about productivity tools and on this episode we talk through a productivity tool to try.

You can find it at toggl.com.

It’s an incredibly easy tool that you can use to track your time.

There are a number of other great tools that can do this as well, but if you want something easy to use that can be extensible later, Toggl is a great choice.

You can accurately invoice clients and give them reports. It’s also an excellent way to ensure you are doing what you want to be doing. There are many more ways you can use it that we cover on the podcast.

IFTTT and Zapier are very powerful tools that can play similar but also complementary roles in helping you automate parts of your business.

They can help you save time and take care of repetitive tasks for you.

There is too much potential for using both of them for a showdown episode and why choose just one as the productivity tool of the week.

There are literally millions of ways that these tools can be used.

You can go to ifttt.com/discover and zapier.com to see more examples than are covered in this podcast.

This is productivity tool week and in this episode we cover a set of tools that can help you be more productive reading. This podcast covers a few tools but centers around spritz - a tool that could help you read faster and with better focus.  Last episode we covered a great automation using trello, pocket and zapier so that you can share articles or for example the websites digital tools with colleagues in an organized way. Once you have this set up, you might want a faster way to read these articles.

This is where a tool such as spritz can be a game changer.

Links to tools:

Spritz.com

Spritz.com/get-spritz - a list of tools using spritz.

Readsy.co - the free reading tool using spritz that was highlighted.

Spreeder.com - another speed reading tool.

Sick of getting articles or links to competitors shared at random times of the day via email? And you then feel social pressure to respond at 9PM and then worse that whole conversation chain eventually gets lost in the email shuffle.

This automation hack is for you and your team.

It lets you share articles with your team in an organized way via saving and tagging them on pocket - a tool for sharing articles - and then, thanks to an integration of the tool zapier, tagging people and saving it on trello an organization tool that we covered in the last tool of the week episode.

For this automation hack you’ll need:

Getpocket.com

Zapier.com

Trello.com

Trello is the first tool of the week. It is a highly visual and team-oriented organization tool.

On these tools of week episodes, we will talk through a tool that has the potential to transform your business. We’ll walk through the basics and then dig deeper into the tool and how you use it to make a powerful impact.

Trello doesn’t have to completely change the way you go about your business to make an impact. It could be a great once-in-a-while tool for you. If you have a project or task at a standstill, it is a great for breaking it down into smaller, more manageable pieces that you can chip away at and streamline. But it also has the power to really transform the way you go about your business.

On this show we talk through 3 free and easy to use tools to check in on the speed of a web page.  Your website is the digital window into your business. If your window is taking a long time to open up, you should know about it. These tools can help. 

The tools discussed in this podcast: 

Google PageSpeed Insights 

Pingdom 

GTmetrix