Hey guys, welcome back! So as a continuation of the 'How I've simplified and better my life series.'
I thought this week we can talk about Chrome extensions
that have really helped me be more productive.
So what Chrome is, Chrome is a web browser
developed by Google nearly 2/3rd of the internet turned to Chrome as their web browser of choice
But not many people actually fully utilize all the plugins and the add-ons that chrome has to offer.
So I thought I'd share 7 of my favorite ones.
First thing I want to talk about is the 'Great Suspender' and
this is recommended to me by a friend a couple years ago when
I was just so
frustrated with how slow my computer was running because I had like a
hundred tabs open and then he was just like
'Row, you have to download this plugin, it'll help you so much' And I did and it did help me.
So what it does is it helps your computer run smoother by suspending any tabs that you aren't using.
So, for example, I have all of these tabs open right now and then here's my Gmail. Here's my things that I use.
Here's my to-do list
here's my calendar and
everything else that I haven't used it's all
suspended and if I want to relaunch it, all I have to do is click on it.
And then....it's back, if you want to re-suspend something
all you have to do is click on this little icon suspend this tab, and then it'll be suspended again.
You can also customize
by going into settings of choosing
okay, automatically suspend after an hour, 30 minutes 15 minutes or maybe even longer
do not suspend tabs are playing audio
So all of this you can choose and you can whitelist any websites
that you never want to suspend. So let's say Gmail.com.
Sleep changes, so in a nutshell
I just appreciate how I can open as many times as I want to my heart's content knowing full
well that nothing bad will happen and there will be minimal repercussions to having over 400 tabs open.
Second thing I want to talk about is ad-block
so it's exactly that, it blocks any ads any display ads that are going to pop up that to me
is very intrusive and sometimes a little bit invasive of how it just so
prominently in your face and like as you're scrolling through and reading different things.
So this is something that I downloaded two years ago
and I just completely forgot that I even downloaded it and just been
running in the background this whole time until recently
I feel like a lot of publishers and a lot of websites now have anti a blockers
so they make you whitelist their page so that you can access their content. After I
whitelisted it, I was bombarded with so many ads that I remembered how much I appreciated this plug-in.
Here is an example of how it works
so we're a fast company. This is the view that I get normally with that plug-in in place
so between all of these things are usual ads
but you don't see any here and if you click on the thing up here, you can see that there's like a a
sign with a number, so there's 23 ads on this page.
And if I were to pause it on this site, alright, so we see our first ad right here
you see another one right here that just
opens there's another one here and
another one here and another one here and another one here. Okay, so
you can choose to pause on this side, pause on all sides, block an ad on this side
don't run on this side, don't run pages on this side.
So to me with all of this
it's just, I just realized subconsciously scrolling through an article
without being disrupted and disturbed by anything that
Expands or anything that's flashing or it just any picture or anything that is irrelevant to the article
It really helps with my flow and it really helps with
concentration and I guess overall productivity. Even in a subconscious way, if things are
constantly there to distract you from what you're supposed to do,
which is honestly what I think a lot of these display banner ads do.
You know, we don't need that, I don't I don't need that in my life.
The third thing is Ebates and this is less of a productivity thing and more about how to save money thing
but I feel like because you're saving money
It also helps you be more productive because it eases your conscience and easing
your conscious is great for making you feel great about yourself.
And so you can be more productive in that sense.
So I've been using this for over two years now, and it was introduced to me by one of my best girlfriends and she
was shocked that I didn't use this and I didn't know about this because it's basically like free money.
So what you do is
alright, so, let me just show you guys. So let me go to
Sephora.com
So right when you go on any website that Ebates is partnered wit. So eBates
is just the largest cash back site and they're partnered with over
2,500 retailers, like Sephora.
So as you can see right when I logged on this thing on the corner popped up activate
8% percent cashback click it right away.
I don't have to do anything else other than clicking that button and then it takes you to this side
congratulations Rowena, you're on a way to eight percent cashback.
And then business as usual, you just browse, shop, do the things that you're gonna do anyway.
The cashback percentages fluctuates from time to time. Sometimes there's like really good deals.
So for example - like right now Macy's is twenty percent
Sephora is eight it's usually four. Barneys - six percent
So the cashback feature is what I use most but they also have promo codes as well as coupons that you can clip.
That's just on this little tab right here when you click on websites that have it and so with the holidays
And Black Friday coming up and just purely treat yourself days
because we all need those sometimes and splurge on things.
This will help ease your conscience
If this is something that you're interested in
you guys can sign up in the description box below and you will get a ten dollar
welcome bonus, after your first purchase of $25 or more.
Ebates is also co-sponsoring a 100 dollar giveaway with me.
So if you are interested
all you have to do is sign up with the first link and then enter the giveaway by clicking on the second link
Thanks Ebates!
Fourth thing is 'Pocket'. This is my favorite read it later app.
There's a lot of similar extensions out there
but the user interface and just everything about pocket just
I love and I appreciate more than anything that's out there. Let me just
show you guys
how it works. So let's say I'm on Fast Company
I come across an article.
All I have to do is click pocket, this little thing in the corner.
Save to pocket, page saved and if I want to read it later
All I have to do is go to pocket my list and it is going to be right here.
All right
so the way that I use pocket is if I come across something that
I read that was just super amazing and I want to
put it somewhere that I can come back to I'm referred to in the future. I'll put it in here.
You can also have a list of favorites you can have tags of
different types of categories
I mean
These are just the categories that I made
there's a lot. So recommended features, top articles and videos inspire about what you save and view in pocket.
These are things that are recommended for me. You can also explore
to see more of what's out there in the interwebs.
And yeah, that's pocket. So let's say you save something on your web browser.
You can also access this on your phone if you have the app and you can also access it offline.
Fifth thing is Grammarly. So Grammarly to me is like spellcheck and
Microsoft word on crack can use it on the internet.
It can help you with grammar, spelling, punctuation
Even help you with word choice and style, wherever you're writing be it like if you're writing a tweet,
if you're writing something on facebook
if you're writing something for a blog post, if you're writing an email. For example
let's say I'm writing a description for my YouTube video that I'm going
to publish tonight and let's say this video is
about
mindset
habits that can help you be a better version of yourself.
I just typed really fast.
I didn't mean to make all these mistakes, so a better, a better, a better and then your your
so this is the little
example of how I use Grammarly and I actually just download
this a few weeks ago when I was doing research for this video.
And it's honestly it's been so awesome. Just writing emails. I feel like punctuation
it's basic grammar and punctuation is something that's so crucial in emails.
And because I spent my formative elementary school years in Taiwan.
I feel like I honestly missed out on a lot of the important imperative grammar lessons.
So my grammar probably isn't the best and that's why I sometimes fumble over my words or
I just say things that may not make grammatical sense, grammatical sense, because yeah, I am
I'm not the best with these things, but this helps me a lot. So that is Grammarly.
Is there anything else with Grammarly?
Nope, I think that's it
Okay, so this next one is very specific to me because I've been trying to learn Chinese
as I told you guys in my previous
videos and
how this plugin works, it's this one right here.
It's Zhongwen Chinese pop-up dictionary and it does exactly that.
So if you hover your mouse over words, it'll give you the
phonetic pronunciation.So these are poems are in by the founder of my spiritual practice Falun Dafa and
it's a school of Buddhism. So there's a lot of these like lotuses and Buddha's and Bodhisattvas
sitting in all these really beautiful things and so what I do is I will hover and
it'll show you the definition and it'll show you the pinging of how to pronounce these
characters and it takes a bit of time because I'm literally.
I mean, I know maybe like 50 to 60% but then it just is still halts.
Especially with something like poems to read
every word and get the definition for every word so that I can know exactly
what it's talking about. So with something like this
It's very very specific. Me sharing this
specific extension and just me making
creating content in general just to help show you guys that
if you want to do something if there's something that you want to learn
if there's something that you want to know more about all you need is that
Initial intent and then the follow-through of
Okay, let me see if there's any plugins or extensions or things on the internet that can help me with this
because more often than not
in this day and age that we live in with technology in full bloom.
There will be a lot of
things and resources for you to be able to cut, cut the time spent doing
things that you would usually take a lot longer.
Alright and then the last two, I'm gonna include the two in one because
these are more like work and business specific if you are
in
advertising or if you're a marketer or if you're a YouTuber or an aspiring YouTuber.
These two plugins are really awesome.
So the first one is vid IQ, what it is
let me restart this screen grab
recording, ready
Ready? And so does this thing right here. Oops, it is this thing right here.
It gives you the vid IQ score
popularity of a video based on engagement and views relative to other videos on YouTube.
This video is currently getting however many views per hour. This is the total views.
You can pay money to get even more access to the analytics and the data
but I'm not. This thing is what I use it for most vidIQ SEO score.
So these numbers basically show the rank and YouTube search within the keywords. So, okay
let me just show you guys really quickly what I do. So, let's say seven months of habits that changed my life
a really quick SEO lesson.
You want to have, you want to repeat the keywords again in your first sentence that
you have in your title in your description.
Thanks Grammarly. Alright let's do
Habits that changed my life
mindset habits, healthy habits
self-care habits. All right, so you see how the score went down. So let's not do self-care habits.
You guys get the point the better you do the higher the SEO score will go up. So I'll spare you guys
the rest of this. A little bonus is clear bit connect so you can find employee
emails addresses for any company and display useful contextual
data for anyone who emails you. So let's say I'm gonna mention a brand in an upcoming video and
I want to reach out to them
to see if they'd be at all interested in sponsoring the video. I can
just type in the company name and then it will come up with a
directory of all the different employees and their emails. So with all of these,
thank you guys so much for watching.
Be sure to check out Ebates. It's in that link in the description box below.
Thank you guys so much for joining.
Thank you guys so much for being here. I hope you guys have a wonderful rest of your day.
Let me know what your favorite Chrome extensions, if you use Chrome, if you have any
suggestions, if you have any tips
if you have any accent you use that can make you more productive or if there's any videos you guys want to see
specifically on productivity, anything, let me know down below and we'll be in touch and I'm sending guys
So much love. Okay, bye!