Replace new tab page with a personal dashboard featuring to-do, weather, and inspiration.
From the Momentum team:
• New inspirational photo and quote each day
• Set a daily goal/focus/intention
• Keep track of tasks with Todo list
• See the weather and forecast
• Show bookmarks bar on new tab
• Default Chrome Tab/Apps links
• Customize the dashboard by showing/hiding widgets
• Set your uptime and downtime with Balance mode
Win The Day: Transform your browser into a goal setting, habit tracking, focus tool to help you maximize your productivity.
I also really enjoy seeing a countdown of days from when I set to complete a goal. So If I give myself one month to complete something, I’ll see today is day 30, tomorrow day 29, etc. and it really helps to keep me motivated daily.
Replace new tab page with a timeline of events based on your location. Stunning imagery 365 days of the year.
With a vast library of events Focus can help recommend things to do each day, really useful if you are a digital nomad and always transient.
A souped up new-tab allowing you to add custom websites quick links, HD wallpapers, bookmarks, local weather ,notes, to-do lists, and history manager
This is like a new tab on steroids, it does a little bit of everything. If you dedicated the 30-40 minutes of setting up this can be very useful.
Another jack of all trades new tab plugin. What’s unique here is the Live Wallpapers (over 100 free) to greet you each morning to start your productive day. These are visually stimulating to get you in a calm focused mood. One other feature ‘Meditation mode’ is great if you’re ever stressed and need a few minutes to regain clarity of mind, quickly open up a new tab and meditate to ambient sounds.
“Puts a timer into any web tool and allows quick real time productivity tracking with all the data stored on your Toggl account. Puts a timer into any web tool and allows quick real time productivity tracking with all the data stored on your Toggl account
Whether you use Trello, Asana, Todoist, Jira or one of the 100+ integrated tools, start tracking time without opening a new tab. Toggl timer also fits into your Pomodoro workflow with automated reminders.”
Stay Focusd is essentially the inverted time tracking for time wasting websites. So for each website you deem distracting, you can set daily time limits for each, and when that time is up you can’t go to that site anymore! Sometimes we impulsively start typing “Face..” and hit enter, and with StayFocusd you’ll be greeted with a blocked screen informing you to get back to work.
It’s a must have extension for those that need a state of uninterrupted deep work.
“Conveniently start and stop timers from your browser and get to work. Whether you’re digging through emails or having an online meeting with your team, your timer is just a click away with Harvest for Chrome. Bring time tracking into popular web apps. Enjoy an enhanced time tracking experience for today’s most popular project management tools.”
“Pomodoro time management assistant. Short & long breaks. Toolbar icon with countdown timer. Track Pomodoro history & stats. Configurable long break intervals. Configurable timer durations. Desktop & tab notifications.”
Any.do helps you remember everything you have to do.
Over 20M people find Any.do to be the simplest way to keep life under control, save time and get more done.
Seamlessly syncs across all devices
Easily share lists & tasks to get more done
Drag & drop tasks to plan your agenda
Attach notes, files or add sub-tasks
Search lists, tasks, notes & sub-tasks
Add one time or recurring reminders
When you find something in Chrome that you want to view later, put it in Pocket. It automatically syncs to your phone, tablet or computer so you can view it at any time, even without an internet connection.
The Pinterest Save button lets you save any idea you find around the web so you can easily get back to it later – recipes, articles, pictures, home improvement ideas, etc. The Pinterest Save button also has built-in visual discovery technology—hover over any image and click the visual search tool to instantly discover visually similar ideas on Pinterest.
By Google. Save to Google Keep in a single click! Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things you care about to Keep and have them synced across all of the platforms that you use — including web, Android, iOS, and Wear. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your note for later retrieval.
Ghostery is a powerful privacy extension that blocks ads, stops trackers and in doing so speeds up websites. You can even see all the trackers that have loaded on a webpage to track your events. As a digital marketer it’s pretty scary!
This is one extension I recommend everyone install.
Note: Some sites do notice if you have an ad blocker installed and won’t load content, if this is the case you can whitelist once/forever straight from the Ghostery toolbar.
Tampermonkey is the most popular userscript manager, and provides features like a clear overview over the running scripts, a built-in editor, ZIP-based import and export, automatic update checks and browser and cloud storage based synchronization.
Pushbullet Brings together content sharing quickly on all your devices
• Conveniently send and receive SMS messages from your computer (requires Android)
• Reply to messages from many popular apps including WhatsApp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger (requires Android)
• Easily share links and files between your devices, or with friends
Split Screen made easy. Resize the CURRENT tab and tabs to the RIGHT into layouts on separate windows. This extension allows Multi Monitor Support.
Exactly as the name suggests, a button is added to the browser in the bottom right allowing you to instantly scroll back to. the top of the webpage. A handy time saver for those looking to always maximize their time browsing.
“Save up to 95% memory and reduce tab clutter. Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.”
“Better than bookmarks. Organize your browser tabs and access them quickly anywhere. Toby is a visual workspace that lives on every new tab. Add new tabs by dragging and dropping your browser tabs into collections or save a whole session in just one-click. Access all of your collections on any desktop with automatic sync. Use tags to organize your collections or create notes for your to-dos.”
“Organize saved tabs by topic. Search open and saved tabs to quickly find what you’re looking for. Export tabs in a variety of formats suitable for emails, documents, and posts. Save or open a list of URLs from the clipboard or a file.”
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