I don’t know about you but as a small business owner I have a lot going on. Between work and family life, it’s easy to get distracted and lose focus. That means and loss of productivity.
With people pulling you in multiple directions every day and the constant demands of work life and family life, losing your productivity means the loss of income. If you are not fully focused, you cannot produce at the rate needed to grow and build your business.
There are thousands of apps that are available now regardless of the mobile phone you use or even on your laptop or desktop. Why not use some of the new technology to help you stay on track and produce at the rate you need to?
Here are some top productivity apps for 2018 that may help you stay focused and save you time.
We going to be productive one of the first places to start is with your Office system. Microsoft Outlook has great structure for the mobile user or the desk office user. With Office 365 you have the ability to coordinate calendars access Word, PowerPoint, and Excel anytime you need it. You can save to Dropbox or OneDrive for file sharing. And a huge multitude of other tools are available too.
If you are a Google Docs user then you also have the power of Google behind you. File sharing, calendar cooperation, access to files, documents and spreadsheet creation and war is at your fingertips via this app.
If you converse with other people in your office while on the road or in the office, many companies are using Slack. It is a messaging app that allows you to file share and set up group message chats via task or topic. What’s great about this app is it also integrates with popular project management software such as Asana and Zendesk
Mentioned above, this app is a team project management tool that allows you to house all communications in one place. It allows you to create projects and assign tasks to individuals.
This is a timer that gives you the ability to customize focus periods and breaks of time so you can focus on individual tasks. The Pomodoro technique uses 25 minutes of focused work with a five-minute break. Many users find that this set up works perfectly for them to produce work. It also allows you to add white noise if needed.
This app has been around for quite a while and still highly revered by Business professionals. This app lets you take notes, pictures, audio, and video snippets and organize them into notebooks that can be shared across devices.
In social media management, this app has become a great productivity tool due to the fact you can schedule posts across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Schedule once a week or in other chunks of time and let them run. Great reporting options too.
There are so many different extensions for your Chrome Tool Bar that will help you stay focused. You can use one like SiteBlock that will block a site while you were supposed to be working. This is especially helpful if you go check out social media when you can’t focus on the task at hand.
If you need to track the time spent on projects, this app allows you to audit the amount of hours and how much time you spend on specific projects or client work. Helpful for billing but also helpful for time wasting too.
There are many more apps that are available to help you focus and be productive when you are spending time on work. Plus, there are new ones that show up all the time so make sure to check out what can help you be productive in 2018.