Sometimes it’s tough staying focused. No matter how hard you try, your brain simply doesn’t want to co-operate with you. The presence of the Internet certainly doesn’t help matters, either – it’s way too easy to click away from what you’re working on, and then realize you’ve been looking at pictures of cats for five hours straight. Wouldn’t you know it? There’s an app for that.
Well, there is if you’re using Google Chrome, anyway.
Stayfocusd: While being a freelancer is awesome and all, it can kind of be a double edged. Social isolation notwithstanding, not having a boss to be accountable to isn’t as great as you’d think – it means that one can very easily find themselves distracted browsing Reddit, or doing a bit too much research for a piece, or working on something that had nothing to do with their initial project. Stayfocusd helps alleviate at least a little bit of this issue. Spending too much time on Facebook? Install the app, and set it up to limit your time. It won’t necessarily stop you if you’re determined to waste time, but at the very least, it’ll act as a friendly reminder for when you do.
Yast: Again, this application was pretty much designed for people who are self-employed. It makes keeping track of your hours a breeze, and helps you to structure your day and keep track of how much time you’re spending on a particular project or contract. Great for freelance positions that pay on an hourly basis, and it could potentially help at the office, too – assuming you’re using Chrome as your browser.
Tabcloud: I openly admit that, nine times out of ten, when I’ve got Chrome open, it’s an unmitigated disaster. It’s rare for me to have less than eight tabs open at a time. It becomes absolutely nightmarish when I have to bookmark things, particularly when I’m doing research. Tabcloud’s designed for just such a situation. If you’re in the middle of two hundred somethings, you can use tabcloud to save your browsing session and go back to it later. Same thing goes for research. Handy, right?
Read Later Fast: It’s way too easy to get caught up reading through article after article, story after story. After all, unless you clutter up your bookmarks, what’s the guarantee you’ll find it again later, right? That’s just what Read Later Fast addresses. Basically, you can plug an interesting tale into your inbox, and come back to the application to read it later on.
Meeting Scheduler for Google Calendar: This one’s pretty much what’s written on the box. It’s a scheduler for the Google Calendar application for Chrome and Firefox. Note that you’ll need to have the calendar installed in order to use this one.
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