5 Tools I Love More Then Kanye Loves Kanye
As an efficient freak I can’t go about life anymore without these tools.
Calendly
“Let’s discuss this further in a meeting. Does Tuesday work for you?”
“Nope, how about Thursday?”
“If it’s between 11:00 to 12:00 or 17:00–17:30 I can make it work”
“Umm..”
2022 is nearing and this conversation sounds too familiar? You probably missed the memo about Calendly. Integrate it with your calendar to generate a link with time slots that are compatible with your scheduale. You can customize the the length of the slots, block certain hours or days, create various links and forget about back and forth conversations.
Zapier
Connecting between 2+ tools is a superpower that anyone can behold thanks to Zapier. Zapier allows anyone and everyone to integrate between different platforms and automate your work. Want to receive a Slack notification for every email with the term “invoice”? Document every form submission to Airtable and Sheets? Create a zap in 2 minutes to save yourself a lot of time and effort.
Superpowered
Superpowered made hoping from one Zoom call to another Google Meet conference less frustrating. It may seem like a minor feature, but once you’ll start you won’t want to go back. Fortunately for us they’ve now released a free version!
Notion
There are more task management tools out there then tasks in the world and my favourite one is Notion.
Notion is simple and intuitive. We use it at work for documentation and I use it for my personal tasks as well. I have a whole workspace dedicated to my academic tasks, scheduale, summaries references, etc.
I also created a simple site with their “public page” feature that includes a lot of resources for my student club team.
I can write a separate blog just about Notion and everything I managed to accomplish with them.
Loom
Take a screenshot with Loom and share it with others without saving it to your computer and uploading it to another platform. They even save you the stress of copy-paste.
It’s great for short tutorials, reporting bugs and feedback, etc.
It’s embedded well on other platforms (e.g. Jira, Slack), you can trim and edit it to your liking, viewers will be able to comment and react and everything will be saved to your Loom workspace automatically.
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Hope this list will help you as much as it did me. If you have any recommendations of your own please feel free to share!
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