what's up you guys adrienne finch here and in today's video i'm showing you
five chrome extensions you need to be using i have been using each one of these for years
now and they have truly made my life so much easier they make web browsing more
fun they've made me way more productive and some of them have even earned me money yeah
so let's get into them the first extension i want to talk about is called momentum this is
a new tab extension which means that anytime you open chrome for the first time or open a new tab
this is the landing page that you will see so as you'll notice when i first open chrome this
beautiful image pops up with a big clock and a greeting to me and a place for me to write
what my focus for the day is now the photo and the mantra will change every single day which is cool
keeps things interesting and i also get this motivational quote at the bottom which i love
you can change any of these settings by clicking on this little gear icon in the bottom left
and you can really change what you view on here whether you want mantras or not the greeting
all the weather like you can toggle on and off pretty much any of these things
i'm using the free version but if you decided to upgrade to a paid version you can actually add
your own mantras and i think you can add your own photos as well so that's pretty cool i'm good with
just the free version but it's very customizable however you want it one of my favorite features of
momentum is if you click to do in the bottom right hand corner this little list pops up where you can
pretty much write any task and then push return it'll show up on your to-do list
then you can just tick it off when you are done this is nice because if you ever think
of something randomly during the day and you're already web browsing you can just open a new
tab and kind of put it here so if you're someone that just wants everything sort of in one place
i think that's really nice now i quickly want to mention that you probably noticed the appearance
of my chrome browser being this peachy pink color and i just want to let you know really quick how
you can actually customize your browser as well if you go to the three dots in the upper right
hand corner and click on settings then on the left click on appearance under theme is where i found
this rose-colored one so if you just click on that you'll be able to go to the chrome web store and
browse through a bunch of themes they have so many different colors and different images and things
like that they've got some minimal stuff so if you really want to customize your chrome i recommend
adding a theme okay moving on the next extension is called text blaze this is a typing shortcut
tool and it is so handy i use it all the time it's especially handy if you have some repetitive thing
you have to type like responding to a bunch of emails every day or things like that then this
will literally cut the time it takes you to write things in half so here's how it works if you click
on the extension and then hit go to dashboard this will kind of take you to the overall text blaze
site now to make a new shortcut you're going to click on the plus button in the upper left corner
you can choose a folder that it's going to go into and then hit create snippet a snippet is
what they call the typing shortcut so first you're going to just label it this is whatever you want
it to be called so this will be my youtube channel link okay and then this is the shortcut so you're
going to decide what do you want to actually type in order for this shortcut to be used so i'm just
going to say forward slash yt this will all make sense in a second by the way so then in this box
you literally can write whatever text you want to be replaced when you use that shortcut so for me
i'm just going to want to type youtube channel and then i'm actually going to add the link
so i just type the link here after i clicked on this little hyperlink button click save then as
you can see this is hyperlinked and it will bring people to my youtube channel you can style these
shortcuts however you want so you can make it bold or italicized you can even add a dynamic
shortcut which would be like inserting the date or time i'm not gonna do that but you could then
basically you can type the shortcut in any text box on the internet and it'll replace itself
with whatever you said so here i am in a blank email and i'm just gonna type forward slash yt
and then immediately it just replaces it with the shortcut that i created another one of mine is bye
and it says let me know your thoughts look forward to chatting soon so instead of typing that out
every single time i just can be like bye and i know that it's gonna say what i want now i will
say the one thing that stopped me from using this a lot at the beginning was that i frankly just had
too many shortcuts that i forgot what they were so i personally recommend starting with just a
few and really remembering that you have them and using them and then adding more or you can always
just click on the extension button and you'll see all of your shortcuts right there to remind
yourself what they are that totally works too this extension is so handy i love that you can
organize your snippets into folders and seriously it saves you so much time next up is rakuten i've
earned over a thousand dollars in cash back from this app doing something that i already do
online shopping all you have to do is create a free account i will leave a link down below and
then you can just start earning cashback whenever you shop online it is literally that easy so there
are two ways to start online shopping trips to ensure that it actually registers with rakuten
number one is just going to racketin.com and here you can browse through several different retailers
you can search for the one you're looking for you can also see some other deals and offers but let's
just say i'm looking for nordstrom you would just click on the page and it'll automatically
take you to nordstrom's landing page but now it knows that you are doing it through rakuten so
anything that you buy here will register there and you will earn that cash back now the second
way is much easier and that is of course to just install the extension i found myself constantly
forgetting to actually go through rakuten before i started online shopping so the extension obviously
makes it so much easier to remember so for example here i am on the nike website and
i should see a little pop-up come down any minute now there we go here's the pop-up it just comes
down it says activate eight percent cashback and if i click on it it'll just redirect me to the
exact same page that i just was at but this time the cashback will be activated so whatever i buy
right now i will earn eight percent cashback which is so nice if you ask me it is pretty much free
money back on the rakuten website and you hover over your name at the top you can actually click
on shopping trips and that's where you can track all of the shopping trips that you've
done through rakuten so as you can see right here these are the two that i just started during this
video that's really all i've done this month good job your cash back will always show up here as
well as your overall balance and the payouts that you've received it's a very easy to use interface
which i appreciate now there's also one more way to earn money through rakuten that i find
is worth mentioning for every person who signs up for rakuten using your referral link you will earn
30 there's no cash they sign up the exact same way you did and you will earn 30 bucks if you click on
the button up here you'll not only see some deals but you also can click on this get 30 plus tab
and you'll find your link right there and this is something that doesn't take much convincing i mean
who doesn't want to earn cashback while purchasing things they'd already be buying sounds like free
money to me so i've definitely made a lot of referral money with this app which is really
nice the next extension is another deal saving money earning app called capital one shopping
i love this app if you've heard of honey it's very similar to honey but i think it works a lot better
and it's just a lot smoother so i'm definitely a fan of this one there's two main functions number
one as your online shopping the app will work to find offers and coupon codes available which
can save you money if i were to be on nordstrom looking at this item it shows me right here that
it found five codes you can click show available codes and copy any of these to test them out
during checkout i mostly use capital one shopping as a price comparison tool though on amazon for
example it'll let you know if you found the best price on something or if the item is offered
anywhere else for less so here is this camera for example and as you can see capital one shopping is
searching right now to to let you know if this is the best price or if there's anything better
and it looks like there's a better deal so if you click on the save 639 dollars it'll bring you to
the capital one shopping page where it'll show you all of these other offers i have actually found
several times in the past that this really has found me a better price and directed me somewhere
else so it's very nice last but not least is one of my favorite tools for productivity it's called
toggle track and it's basically a timer you can turn on and off when you start or end a task
to help you keep on track which i definitely need so you'll just click on the extension button and
then type out what you're working on filming youtube video and then hit the play button
it'll then start basically timing you so that you can track how long you've spent on something when
you're done with the task you would just click the stop button and as you can see it logs everything
that you've done which is super nice you can also click on this button right here in order to go to
your dashboard and have this really pretty kind of overall view of like your calendar and
how you have spent your time in any given day or week i obviously didn't use this very
much this week but anything you do will show up right here which is really cool
if you freelance and you need to track your hours this is honestly perfect for something like that
if you want to use this a little bit more for productivity and staying on track then you can
actually go to the gear icon right here to go to the settings click on pomodoro
and then enable pomodoro so now when you start a time entry a pomodoro clock will
start and at the end of the interval you'll get a notification that it's time to take a break so
this time it'll actually kind of tell you to take the break instead of you setting the timer and
forgetting about it and getting off track anyway which is kind of what i do i personally suck at
knowing how long things take me i can almost never estimate how long a task will be so keeping track
here has really helped me better understand how i spend my time and where i'm getting off track
and i love how it shows up on that grander calendar so i can just easily sort of see it
all in one place so those are the five chrome extensions that i actually use every single day
and i think you need to be using too if you want to make your life easier be more productive and
even earn some money while browsing the web leave comments below if you have any video requests or
things you want to see and thank you guys so much for watching i'll see you in the next video bye
you