Everyone wants to be more productive. In this digital world, we do browse the internet a lot for various activities, maybe for learning something, sometimes for hearing music, sometimes for socializing, and so on.
Hence there come browsers. All most everyone uses a web browser, like Firefox, google-chrome, safari. Among all the browsers google chrome stands high with almost 64% of the market share.
So let's just dive into the vast ecosystem of chrome extensions that can extend the functionality of chrome in one way or another. But beware of one thing, the more extensions you use, the more likely your browser can slow down. So try to use the most essential ones only.
Bitwarden
Everyone needs a password manager. Normal human minds cannot remember all the million passwords that they use. Password managers are real-life savers. But password managers should be too secure. Hence one of the most secure password managers out there, Bitwarden, stands out from the rest.
If the master password is forgotten, there is absolutely no way to retrieve the passwords(an optional hint can be given for the password). Some might think this as a downside but this is a security feature that prevents anyone else from accessing your secure vault.
Its end-to-encrypted, open-source, third-party audited, cross-platform, and tons of other features. It’s free for personal use and there is paid plan for enterprise usage
Grammarly
If you have concerns regarding your grammar, Grammarly can help you out. From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express yourself. You’ll get real-time feedback from Grammarly on Gmail, Google Docs, Twitter, LinkedIn, and nearly everywhere else you find yourself writing. Grammarly is a writing assistant that offers you specific suggestions to help you improve your writing — and it goes way beyond grammar. You can be confident that your writing is not only correct but clear and concise, too.
But some of the more advanced features are only available with a subscription.
Ever missed an article or video because you were busy at the moment. Worry not pocket won’t let that happen again. Pocket is available across all platforms like chrome, firefox, android, ios, etc.
It's a really cool extension that lets you save anything that you come across the network(literally anything) which can be optionally tagged for easy searching later. It has a clean interface to let the users read the saved articles and even listen to them. Pocket becomes a personal, quiet corner of the internet where you can spend quality time with the stories that matter to you.
uBlock Origin
There are tons of ads on the internet. These ads can be distracting for us. So uBlock-Origin lets you block contents optionally with being memory and CPU efficient.
It’s one of the best adblockers out there and it’s opensource too.
Additionally, you can point-and-click to block JavaScript locally or globally, create your own global or local rules to override entries from filter lists, and many more advanced features.
Dark Reader
Are you Fond of night mode? This extension can make anything on the browser to dark theme automatically. This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night.
You can adjust brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings, and ignore-list. You can also set it according to the system theme. And it's too opensource.
Conclusion:
This list is not final. No list of five can be. But I do believe that the ones I recommended here will be useful for you too. Yep, you might have your own favorites too. I too use some extensions like Spotify-lyrics, honey, momentum which suits my interests. At the end what matters is whether it helps you to become more productive.
Tip: Never waste too much of your time planning to be productive instead of being so.
