Looking to save time in your browser?
Lucky for you, I’ve got 5 Chrome Browser extensions to save you time.
The best part?
They’re all free!
Hey Friends, I’m Tasia Custode and welcome back to my YouTube Channel where I share tech
tips, app reviews, and a ton of Google goodness.
In the spirit of saving your time, let’s not waste anymore of it, and jump right into
some time-saving Chrome browser extensions.
So let’s dive in with number 1: AudiBlogs.
Ohhhh this is a good one.
So some of you may be familiar with some of my other Chrome extension videos, where I’ve
mentioned Pocket - a great extension for when you come across a blog or article that you
want to save to read it later.
Well, AudiBlogs takes that article and converts it into a podcast for you to listen to.
Ya!
So from the article that you don’t have time to read and want to take with you on
the go say when you’re commuting to work or going for your walk or what have you, you
just hit the AudiBlogs extension, and initially you’ll have to set up your podcast app of
choice.
But AudiBlogs uses really good AI narration that sounds pretty good actually, considering
it’s not a real human.
So, then the article is added to your podcast player of choice and you can now take that
with you on the go and multitask while listening.
Ok, number 2 on the
list is also in this entertainment space.
Did you know that Netflix has secret category codes?
Well, they do, and I’ve actually made a video on how to find them, but who has time
for that?
Luckily for us, there’s a Chrome extension just for this.
Enter All Netflix Categories.
This is a massive time saver when you’re browsing Netflix.
Because we all know how long it can take to find something to watch.
So, from any tab, you don’t even have to start in Netflix, you can just click on the
extension and look at all the categories.
So when you pick a category, you’ll be taken to Netflix in that tab.
A time-saver indeed and maybe you’ll even find something new and exciting to watch that
you didn’t even know existed.
Moving on to number 3 on the list: Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder.
I know, the longest name ever, but a real time-saver nonetheless.
So I know we can all take screenshots on our computers and some of us may even use screen
recording software, and that’s all fine and dandy.
But, sometimes, you might need to share something with someone that just can’t be explained
in an email or text.
For example, let’s say you’re redesigning a website or merchandise or branding for your
company, you may want to quickly explain to your designer how you want things laid out.
So you can easily click on the extension and right away you’re going to notice a lot
of options.
You can record your desktop, only a specific tab, or even use your webcam.
You can toggle the audio on or off.
But look here in the screen capture option - this is way better than us just taking a
simple screenshot, because you can see we even have the option to capture the full page
as a still, which is really handy.
But back in the record option, all you have to do is hit ‘start recording’ and then
pick what you want to share and hit ‘share’.
So this would be cool enough to save us time, but wait, there’s more!
In the bottom here, you’ve got some real-time annotation and callout options.
So, as an example, you could highlight the mouse - which I do for my videos, but always
in Camtasia after the fact.
So now, you could do it on the fly with this extension.
We can annotate and draw attention to certain things of importance.
Now back to our extension at the top, there is a running timer, so we can see how long
we’ve been recording for.
And if we click on the extension, we can stop the recording.
We’re then brought to a new tab where we can preview the video, download it, or even
edit the video.
But, better yet, we can generate a shareable link to send in an email right to our designer
or colleague or whoever we need to send it to.
How neat is that?
Okay moving on to number 4 on the list and that’s Weava Highlighter for PDF and Web.
This is another one that allows you to interact directly with web pages.
So with Weava installed, you can highlight sections from articles of web pages that are
of interest to you.
So look, I’ll just highlight this quote here and I can even pick a color for the highlight
too.
But cooler yet, you can leave yourself a little note too.
You just have to click on the highlight again and then type your note.
And if you click on your Weava extension, you’ll see the notes you’ve highlighted
or you can click through to your dashboard to see your research folder in full view.
The coolest thing though is that whenever you come back to that webpage, your highlights
will be there waiting for you, for easy reference.
Nice!
And rounding out our list at number 5 is Colorpick Eyedropper.
I’ve talked about this guy before because I just love it so much.
If you need to match a specific brand color, but you don’t know what it is, then this
extension is for you.
So let’s say you want to match the specific shade of blue from this website, well it’s
super easy to do.
Click your colorpick eyedropper extension, and you’ll notice your mouse turns into
this cross here and as you move over colors, the color hex changes to instantly match that
color.
Simply click on the color you want.
And now in this little box, you can copy the hex code, and paste it wherever you need to.
I use this all the time when I’m editing video, in order to match brand colors when
the brand hasn’t given me their guidelines.
This is probably one of my most used extensions.
So obviously, this is a short list, as I have a ton of other Chrome extension videos.
You can check them all out via the links in the description below.
So what do you think of these picks?
Are there any other time-saving extensions you use?
Let everyone know in the comments below.
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