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Best Productivity Tools to Save Time and Money (1)

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Starting to write this article, Mobidea team member got distracted several times, checked Facebook, ate, chatted with colleagues, looked at beautiful Lisbon roofs behind the window, etc.

As the result - his productivity for the day decreased, and he had to stay at the office extra time, in order to finish what he has planned.

Productivity!

How to keep it up? And which tools can help you? Let's see!

[Disclaimer: This post was originally published on Mobidea Academy. All the missing information can be found in the full version. ]

What is a Productivity Tool?

A productivity tool is a tool that will help you get faster, more efficient, work with a higher quality, be more organized, and fight procrastination.

What are the Different Types of Productivity Tools?

There are several types of Productivity Tools you can find online.

These are the most common types of productivity tools:

• Time control
• Task management
• Website-blocker

Bear in mind that – on average – humans need around 20 minutes to be totally focused again on the task they were performing before being distracted.

List of The Best Productivity Tools

1. Strict Workflow

Rating: 4
Price: Free
Installation: Browser Extension

With Strict Workflow, you’ll have a 2 in 1. First, this productivity tool uses the Pomodoro Technique.

What’s that?

It’s an old technique that organizes your time by periods. Take a pencil, take a piece of paper. Write down, on a checklist, the tasks you need to perform. Now start to work. You’ll work for 25 minutes upon the completion of the task. Then, rest for 5 minutes. Those 25+5 minutes form a “pomodoro”.
After four pomodoros, take a longer break, of 15-30 minutes.

You can apply this technique in the old-fashioned way: Using a classy kitchen timer. You can also decide to go modern with Strict Flow.
With this tool, you can also block websites that you know are distracting you from your ambitious goals.

2. Asana

Rating: 5
Price: Free (up to 15 team members) or 6.25$ a month per user
Installation: SaaS

Asana is one of the best task management tools you can use. This is basically the productivity tools definition you were looking for!

She (yes, I decided that this productivity tool is a girl) also helps you manage tasks that you delegate to your team.

You can even consider it one of the best team productivity tools around. The logic is pretty simple: first, you create a project. Let’s say your project is to “Hire a media buyer”.
Then, you create tasks inside it. Let’s pretend that the task within the major task is as follows:

• Look through the applications
• Schedule interviews
• Evaluate the interviews and make a decision

Then, on each task, you’ll allocate a person. You’ll also have a deadline and you can insert more details into the description.

You’ll find a whole bunch of small options: Set tasks as “Favorite”, create subtasks, create chats inside of each task or projects and so on.
The deadlines are super easy to check, thanks to a very user-friendly calendar.

The best thing about this awesome tool for productivity? Its remarkably smooth usability. In fact, it’s easy to navigate, to set the tasks and to manage them. Believe us, you’ll become able to maintain a high level of perfectly organized momentum by using Asana.

3. Trello

Rating: 4
Pricing: the Free version is enough (or it can go up to 10$ monthly, per user)
Installation: SaaS

We really love task management softwares. Trello is the one that follows!

It’s a bit different from Asana but also quite helpful.

Trello’s structure is slightly different: you’ve got your board (you can create several of them) where you start to create lists that’ll always be listed horizontally, as you keep creating new ones. On each list, you can put cards that’ll be displayed vertically, below each list you create.

Trello is hyper visual. For each board, you’ll get to see a menu on your right. That’s where you’ll check the activity of the board, change the settings, see the participants, etc.

It’s all pretty simple.


Wanna know more about different productivity tools? Check the original version of the article at Mobidea Academy!

Have experience working with productivity tools and wanna share your feedback with us? Comment below!

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