BROWSER EXTENSIONS FOR BLOGGERS THAT CAN MAKE A SUPERSTAR
Blogging, though fun, can be a hell of lot of work, can't it.
There are always blog posts to edit, screenshots to capture, keyword research to conduct and a million other little to do's. I couldn't listen them forever.
While their is no magic bullet that will make you more efficient blogger overnight, there are some awesome tools you can leverage to supercharge your productivity. And they come in the form of brpwser extensions.
In this post i am going to share awesome browser extensions that i have found really help me stayfocused and productive.
1.EVERNOTE
How do you go about researching a topic you wish to o blog about? Perusing the Internet for helpful articles and then bookmarking relevant Web pages. I bet.
The thing is,things can get pretty messy using this technique. In comes Evernote. This handy tool makes saving articles from the web incredibly simple.
Here is how a normal blig post is displayed on this very site you are on:
Here is how Evernote saves it:
As you can see the clipped article above is free from distracting elements lime the sidebar, menubar etc. It is easier to focus on and simpler to read.
Yes, you guessed it. it's feature of Evernote. This arrow is available in the 'screenshot' featureof the tool.
2.GRAMMARLY:
Yhe quickest way to establish yourself as a mediocre blogger is by publishing error- ridden articles filled with grammatical mistakes and misspellings.
But let's face it,editing a blog post you wrote yourself can be tricky. However, using Grammarly your job can be made easier.
It works by highlighting grammatical and spelling errors in red as you write, and suggests corrections. It can also downloaded and used in Microsoft word.
Grammarly comes in both paid and free version. Over the few years, i have used it. I found out that the free version is sufficient if you have a decent command of english.
3.GOOGLE DICTIONARY :
This tool needs very little explanation – it does exactly what its name implies.
But Google Dictionary isn’t like any other dictionary app you might have, in that it is incredibly simple to use. To use it, all you need to do is to double-click the word you wish to check the meaning of:
In addition to single words, this tool also checks the meaning of single phrases and idiomatic expressions. Interestingly, it can also check the meaning of words in foreign languages like Portuguese, Chinese, French and a whole host of others.
Before using Google Dictionary, refresh all of your web pages or restart your browser after installing the extension.
4.ONETAB
When researching a blog post topic, chances are you may open multiple tabs in your browser at a time.
- There are two drawbacks to this approach:
- It eats up the memory space of your computer.
It makes it hard to know which tab is which
Ever received this error message before?
5.BOOMERANG FOR GMAIL
When trying to establish a relationship or ask for links, how do you reach out to influential bloggers? Of the many ways to go about this, contacting them via email is by far the easiest.
But because these individuals are often super busy, they may not be able to respond promptly to your emails, so then you have to send them follow-up emails. How exactly do you go about this? Enter Boomerang for Gmail.
This clever tool lets you write, schedule and send out different emails at a given time, even if you are offline.
- Most importantly, it lets you ‘boomerang’ a message if after a certain period of time you get no response from the receiver. This can save you a LOT of time in terms of chasing things up.