Published May 22, 2023, 11:20 a.m. by Courtney
productivity money - 5 awesome apps that changed my life
I used to think that being productive meant working hard and long hours. I would start my day early, work through lunch and often continue working into the evening. But no matter how hard I worked, I never seemed to get ahead. I was tired, stressed and always felt like I was playing catch-up.
Since downloading a few key apps, my life has changed completely. I’m now able to get more done in less time and I actually enjoy my work again. If you’re looking to boost your productivity (and your mood!), here are 5 awesome apps that changed my life:
This app is a game-changer when it comes to time management.
RescueTime runs in the background of your computer and tracks the amount of time you spend on each website and application. At the end of each week, you’ll receive a report detailing how you spent your time.
This was a real eye-opener for me. I had no idea how much time I was wasting each day on social media and non-essential websites. Once I saw the numbers in front of me, I was motivated to make some changes.
Now, I use RescueTime to set daily limits for non-essential websites. If I find myself spending too much time on Facebook or Twitter, the app will block the site for the rest of the day. This has helped me to stay focused and be much more productive with my time.
If you’re looking for a simple, effective to-do list app, Todoist is the perfect solution.
This app allows you to create to-do lists for work, home and everything in between. You can also set deadlines, priorities and reminders to help you stay on track.
I love that Todoist syncs across all of my devices, so I can access my to-do lists no matter where I am. And if I ever need to share a list with someone else, I can easily do so with just a few clicks.
Evernote is my go-to app for taking notes and keeping organized.
With Evernote, you can create text, audio and video notes. You can also save images, PDFs and web pages. And if you ever need to access your notes from another device, they’ll all be securely synced in the cloud.
I use Evernote to take meeting notes, store important documents and even plan my blog posts. It’s an incredibly versatile app that has made my life much easier.
If you’re anything like me, you probably come across interesting articles, videos and other content online every day. But who has time to read or watch all of that?
Pocket is a “read it later” app that allows you to save content for later. Whenever you come across something that you want to read or watch, just add it to Pocket and it will be there waiting for you when you have the time.
This app has been a lifesaver for me. It’s helped me to declutter my online life and only consume content that is truly interesting and valuable to me.
If you’re looking for an app that will help you stay focused and be more productive, look no further than Forest.
This app works by planting a virtual tree every time you start a timer. If you stay focused and don’t leave the app, your tree will continue to grow. But if you give in to distractions and exit the app, your tree will die.
I love this app because it’s a fun and effective way to stay on task. And as an added bonus, for every virtual tree that you grow, Forest will plant a real tree through their partnership with Trees for the Future.
These are just a few of the productivity apps that have changed my life. If you’re looking to boost your productivity, I encourage you to give them a try.
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hey guys okay so this video will be
about
five apps that have changed my life for
the better
and those apps are regarding to clothes
food
organization tasks and money okay so i
guess we'll just
dive head first into the first app which
is
tiktik which is a task app so what i
really like about tiktik is the
possibility to see
the tasks deadlines day by day so you
have the today
and tomorrow and seven day
overview so that you can see what tasks
you have ongoing and
see which ones are upcoming something
that is also really good
is that you can prioritize tasks between
high priority medium priority and low
priority
and that way you can actually see which
ones are really important and which ones
are not so that it helps you prioritize
between your tasks you can tag all your
tasks and then you can make
smart lists based on that so for example
if you have an errands to make list
you can tag things with for example the
pharmacy or
ikea or food store or whatever so that
you can grab all the things at the same
time
and know exactly at what stores you can
get them from
i think it's absolutely amazing all the
things that you can do within this app i
usually have
smaller things to do around the house
task list
which is my main task list where i write
things like
what are the plans and taking out the
trash
and stuff like that and then i usually
put the deadline on them
so that i can see which day i have to do
things and another great function
of course is that if you don't do the
tasks today
they will be automatically moved to
tomorrow so that you can see all the
things that you didn't do today and then
they're overdue
and also if you want to you can put
reminders on the tasks
so you never forget to do them so you
can both have a deadline
and a reminder so that you get a push
notification for when you're
supposed to do them you can hear by my
tone i guess that i'm really passionate
about this app because it's just made my
life
so much easier i had the year or years i
don't know
until i found tiktik and my personal
life was just
chaotic because i didn't know what to do
i tried writing on paper
i've tried microsoft to do i didn't like
it
i've tried a lot of different apps but
none of them
really seem to work for me so yeah
i'm so happy that i found tick tick this
next app really changed my life
in regards to how i see my money and how
i
keep track of my money and all of that
kind of nice stuff
so this is an app called slamtar it's
a swedish app for swedish users but
i would assume that there's probably a
similar app
in pretty much every country because
it's
so good i would advise you regarding to
these kinds of apps to do your own
research
make sure that they follow all laws and
regulations
and things that they need to keep up
with in order to be
safe and secure for all of your money so
basically the home page is an overview
of your total income and your total
spend money this month and you can also
see
historically all of the months before
this
the real magic thing about this app that
has really changed the way for how i
work with my money
is that the app imports all of my
transactions from my banks
and put them in this general statement
and for the most of the time it also
categorizes it
so you don't really have to do that much
manual
like stuff with it so you do some
initial categorizations
but then it all works like
magic this next page is something that i
also really use a lot and that's the
total balance
of all of your accounts i am a person
that for some reason
have a lot of different banks i think i
use i don't know
five different banks at the same time so
this is a great way to actually
get an overview of everything that
is happening in all of my bank accounts
at once and of course you can go into
each of these accounts and see
all of the transactions too and
categorize them right if you want to
and everything like that another feature
that i like
really really much is that you can see
all of your bills and subscriptions in
one place so i can see everything that
goes
automatically because i added in as a
recurring cost
and then i can see because it tracks
when they are supposed to be paid
so if i have something that comes
quarterly then
they are going to give me kind of a
reminder that this is going to be paid
this month
so i have a full overview for what bills
i actually need to pay
and they have this little counter for
how much of the bills you pay this month
and
how much you have left so this is an
awesome way to keep track of all your
subscriptions and all your money that's
going out monthly
and i believe it's really helped me save
quite some money
and at least it makes you keep track of
all the things that you have
the next app that is so
so so so so so great oh all of these are
so good i'm so excited about this
it's notion and notion is just the
greatest app ever i think it's just a
place where i keep
everything in my life it's mainly
desktop-based but it works
really really good on phone too so you
can actually use it on both
though i would recommend setting
everything up on the desktop first so
it's basically a program
that allows you to write stuff and add
tables and kanban boards and
all of these types of different blocks
so that you can
do anything you want within this blank
piece of
paper like website thing i have a lot of
things connected to my work there so i
can have
all of my work tasks there all of my
goal setting
all of my reflections i do a little bit
of journaling
sometimes not that often i'm tracking
some of my savings there
i have actually put up my own personal
knowledge database
because there are a lot of things
related to youtube and related to my
work that i need to store in one place
for example i work
a lot with organizational development at
work so i have
like a separate database connected to
that
on a notion i have a page with all of my
hobbies
like i have a list of all of the movies
and tv shows that i want to watch and i
can see what ongoing series i have what
movies that i want to watch that are
coming out on cinema soon
i have a list of all of the books i want
to read
everything in my life that i need to
categorize
and store information about is basically
there something that i also think is
really great
is that they have a way to actually
import images and websites
and articles and all stuff like that
into one place
so i can actually access everything from
there because how many times have you
found an article that you're like i
really should be
reading this when i'm going to do that
and
you read it or you don't read it and you
just mentally save it and then it's gone
and this is a great way to get it
directly into the app and
you have it all in one place so yeah my
entire life is in notion
it's my digital brain and the next app
that has changed my life
regarding food is this app called
paprika i've talked about this app
before on my channel
but the thing that is so great with this
app is that
you can take any recipes that you want
to and you can download them from the
web
directly into the app you generally
don't have to type
in the recipe but you can pretty much
import the whole thing and then maybe do
some final
touches on it but you can have a list of
all of your different recipes and of
course when you click on a recipe you
get to see the
ingredients for the recipe and then also
the directions for
how you're supposed to do the recipe and
i guess the best thing about this
is that you can plan all of your meals
and put it into the calendar
for the week so first of all the good
thing is that if you store
like all of your regular recipes in
there you know
all the things that you usually cook and
then you can just pick and choose from
the list and just add them to the dates
and then you have it all set instead of
like mentally browsing and be like oh i
wonder what we should cook today and the
other great thing that you could do
is to put all the recipes in the
shopping list so if you add it to the
shopping list
you can see all of the ingredients pop
up and then you can just
unclick the things that you already have
at home
and then you have it all prepared for
your shopping list this app
has really changed the way i do my food
however at the moment i'm just being
really lazy and
i'm ordering a lot of food and the last
app
that has changed my life in regards to
clothing and shopping
is the smart closet app in combination
with pinterest if you have any interest
in clothes or fashion or if you want to
like explore new style or
evolve your style or just get dressed
better in general i think this is a
great way
so what i would do from the beginning is
just going to pinterest
search for outfit of the day or
different outfits
and whatever you like blazer outfits or
skirt outfits and then
pin the things that you really really
like and when you do this
over time you will see some trends and
pieces that keep coming back then when i
combine it with the smart closet
app that's when things become magical
because what i have done
is that i have added most of these
outfits
into the closet app and what you do is
that you
basically google pieces for every outfit
and then you put it together in the
closet app and then when you've done
this for a while your app can look
something like this and as you can see
i'm a real nerd about this
you don't have to do this so much in
depth but i really love this i can spend
hours and hours with this
so what you then can see is that you can
see which
colors you use most you can see which
item that gets used the most in these
outfits that you've set up and then you
can also categorize it
by season and by occasion
you can also see what you have available
and what you don't have available
so now you have an awesome shopping list
that way you can really build up your
wardrobe
based on the basics and make your
wardrobe based on pieces that
you know works in a lot of different
outfits if you want to know
more about my task setup in ocean i
would recommend you to watch this video
thank you so much for watching if you're
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have a great week and i'll see you in
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