When you sit in front of a computer all day is can be appealing to visit sites like The Chive frequently. If you find yourself doing this more then once or twice a day it may be harming your productivity. Luckily, if you use Chrome, there are many different extensions you can add that were created to help you stay away from these distractions. The Huffington Post wrote a story fairly recently that highlights a great number of, but below we concentrate on 4 that stood out to us.
Stay Focused
This add-on places a time limit on those time-wasting websites that you like. Once the timer on each site expires, it will stay blocked for the rest of the day, preventing you from clicking on CNN or The Onion for an anti-productivity visit.
Cool Clock
If you regularly find that you miss appointments or forget to go to meetings, Cool clock could become your new best friend. It has a clock, calendar, alarm, and timer built into it. It also lets you set desktop time notifications. Another great use for this is to use it to set reminders for tasks you have to complete.
Last Pass
It can be very hard to remember all of your passwords; which of them have numbers or letters, and which letters are capitalized. Last Pass is a Chrome add-on that can help you with this. It manages your online passwords for you so that you don’t have to waste your time struggling to remember them.
Turn off the Lights
Sometimes we must watch rather dull videos as part of our jobs. It can be hard to focus on those videos when there are many distractions online and on your desktop. That’s where the Chrome extension Turn off the Lights comes in. This add-on keeps your media player bright but dims anything else on your screen. Use this extension and you’ll have no excuse for drifting from that corporate video.