Hello folks and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel
Today's video i'm passing over to geet madan to do a feature all about the top 10 chrome extensions
He's going to recommend a whole bunch of them including mail trackers
Also looking into how to improve your reading inside of the chrome browser as well as tab management and lots more
Even including pomodoro timers. He's put together fantastic lists
You can download them all in the description below and please do make sure you go ahead and subscribe to eat
He has been on this channel before diving into siri shortcuts, and we'll be back again soon doing an introduction to siri shortcuts
Which is very exciting. So without further ado i'll pass you over to into the capable hands of git madan. Thank you francesco
Hi everybody. My name is keith. Madon, and I have a youtube channel where I talk about tech productivity and automation
So if that sounds interesting, you might want to check out my channel after this video though. So let's get started
So statistically speaking almost all of us use google. Chrome or some variant of chromium
Which is basically google chrome as our main browsers on day-to-day basis and google. Chrome is good
Don't get me wrong
but you can definitely make it better and
You can make it better with chrome extensions and francesco and I came up with a list of kind of top 10
Extensions that we believe will add to your experience with your browser and make your browser a little more productive for you
So the first extension that I have for you is called black menu for google
This is a simple extension that gives you access to all google services right from the toolbar on google
Chrome this lets you navigate to your gmail account without ever leaving the web page you are on
You can also right click on an email address and send emails using your gmail account
having all google services presented in one place and accessible to you within a few clicks can actually let you go through with
Certain workflows. That would have been a little too cumbersome to carry on without black menu for google for instance
While writing out an email you can quickly navigate to google drive grab a link to a file
You want to share and put it on your email without ever leaving the tab you had open in the background now
Let's talk about auto text expander for google chrome
This is an extremely long name for something that intends to
Make sure you don't have to type out extremely long phrases
Like I said this extension lets you set up shortcuts for longer phrases hoping to reduce the amount of time
You spend typing out repetitive things when you first installed the extension it would have some shortcuts already set up
But you would want to customize it to fit your typing style in my case
I have o1 as my outlook email g1 and g2 as my gmail accounts. I also have shortcuts for my full name
first name last name street address and my full address
It just makes sure that I don't have to type out the same things over and over again
Instead I can just put this little shortcut and actually expands it to the full phrase
What i've been talking about is just the surface level you can actually customize it to write out giant emails you can
You can customize it to have your cover letter written by this application automatically. You can actually insert dates honestly
Your imagination is the limit in this situation and if you come up with something that is way better than what I have
Please let me know in the comments below. I'll be more than happy to copy
Emails are probably the one thing that should have died in favor of better and newer solutions
But that hasn't happened yet and we all have to deal with it today when you send out an email
There's no way to know if an email was ever opened or even delivered
Your options for tracking are the same as you would have had
If you were gonna tie your letter to a pigeon and send it to somebody
Mail tracker is an extension that will keep track of all your emails and with a simple check mark based ui
It will inform you if your email has been delivered and then opened
This is great
If you're using chrome to access your gmail account
But if you're sending emails using a phone or a third-party application this chrome extension will not work for you
So works good
If you want to track an email
Make sure you send it through your chrome browser print friendly is the next extension I have on the list
It takes all the fluff out of a web page and make sure you have the text front and center essentially making sure you're now
Wasting paper and toner on promotional ads and other stuff that you don't want to really print out
If you want to customize the output even further you can delete individual sections
That you don't think belong in the final version other than printing the output
You can also save the output in a pdf file or send it as an email in the flow of making cleaner web pages
Let's talk about how lame it is that chrome does not have a reader mode by default this chrome extension adds a much
Needed reader mode to google chrome other than removing ads and links to clickbait articles
It organizes the text on the web page in separate sections that can be accessed using a table of contents on the left bar
This is ideal for long form articles that don't have hyperlinks for easy navigation between multiple segments
You can also change the font typeface size and justification
You can enable dark mode if you choose to sign up for an account
You can enable reader mode on certain websites automatically. The next extension on this list is mindset
I think almost all of us are suffering from information overload these days
I mean with the internet being so ubiquitous and there is so much text to read and consume
That we rarely ever take the time to actually sit down and make note of all the things that resonate with us
Which is what mindset can help you with it lets you capture snippets of text
Quotations or just fun facts and then you can organize them in their collections respectively
You can also use this to research a topic to have all the information available to you in one
Application if you want you can also turn your collections into flashcards for you to review
The best part of mindzip is the fact that it stores the source of the snippet
So you don't have to go hunting if you want to re-read the source of the text you saved
I've been using mindset to capture codes and mindset principles for minimalism
Although I like to believe i'm a minimalist and 100 successful at it
there are times that I really want to buy the newest ipad or the newest surface pro x
That thing's even prettier in those times. I like to look at my minimalist principles collection on mindzip to avoid making impulsive purchases
So as religious viewers of key productive, we all know what farmer door timer is right like the 25 minute timer
You work for 25 minutes, and you take a five minute break
Yes, exactly that did you know that a chrome extension that can do that for you?
One of my favorite chrome extensions for this is tomato timer
It is a simple application that you can start with two simple clicks
It makes an obnoxious sound when the timer starts or when the timer runs out other than running a recurring timer and making obnoxious sounds
It can block certain websites based on the domain names by default
It blocks twitter and facebook, but feel free to add reddit and youtube because I know how distractive those can be
Let's talk about grammar as a non-native english speaker and an engineer. I kind of suck at technical writing
I have to write reports and I have to write emails
And so do you but those emails are kind of representation of us, but everybody can catch our grammar errors
Which is where grammarly comes in visible extension will scan through all your text
And point out spelling and grammar errors that can be fixed quickly and in the latest update
They've also added the ability to identify the tone of your text
This is highly useful when you're writing professional emails where you don't want to sound rude or passive aggressive
Although there's a paid version of grammarly, but i've been using the free version
It has helped me even while scripting this video
You have no idea how bad it would have been if I hadn't used grammarly in this video
It's a long script in my defense
Do you if I just sit around and wonder?
If a website would look different if they didn't capture all your data and google wasn't providing them all the information that you have
Provided to google to customize it to your liking. Well incognito mode on chrome can actually do that
But in order to open a current web page in incognito mode
You have to copy the url of your web page
You have to open a new incognito window paste the url. You just copied in the incognito window
If not anything that sounds like a lot of steps for something that shouldn't be that hard
But if you use a chrome extension called incognito this you simply right click on a website click on
incognito this it would automatically open the current web page and
Incognito window and you can see the web page devoid of all the data that you have been given to google
Or whatever website you're trying to change over the past few years all
Modern apps and operating systems have been talking about dark mode and they'll be taking dark mode a lot more seriously on the other hand
Websites have continued to stay
Annoyingly bright and ugly, but you can use dark leader
Chrome extension to convert all these ugly websites to a very pleasing dark mode on google chrome
This extension analyzes all the colors on our websites and converts them to a suitable dark mode color
But making sure images and videos are not affected in any way
You can also customize the colors to be a little more muted and under saturated to suit your preferences overall
This extension is amazing and it is bringing a modern dark mode to the most antiquated websites as well
That were 10 extensions for me in francesco
If you want to check these extensions out
There should be links to these extensions in the description below
And if you think there are extensions that we completely missed out and you think are essential in this top 10 list
Please let us know about them in the comment section anyways back to you francesca
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