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11. Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder
Capturing a full page of a site has never been easy with Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder.
This is one of the best screenshot Chrome extensions that you need to have for screen sharing. You can capture a full page or just selected the area that matters the most. It is also possible to capture a specific application window with the Awesome Screenshot Chrome extension.
The screenshot file will be available as an image in PNG or JPG format or as PDF. Then you can save your screenshot or share it with your friends immediately.
With the annotate tools, you can add texts, arrows, lines, circles, resize or crop the file, highlight or even blur sensitive information.
Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder Chrome extension is also capable of recording your desktop, current Tab, or Camera. This is great to create a simple tutorial for your students or colleagues. To make your video more interesting, you can add your voice or include your face.
Amazingly, it offers video quality from 720p, 1080p, to 4K. The video file comes in MP4 or WebM formats and can be saved on the local disk.
Do you need to share your videos? You can use the shareable links to share the videos with your friends.
Get Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder (Size – 4.32MB)
12. Loom for Chrome
Create a video messaging to your colleagues to get your message clearly and avoid back and forth typing messages.
Loom brings the messaging for work to the next level. It lets you record your screen, voice, and face to create an instantly shareable video.
This extension is perfect to create a short troubleshooting or tutorial video to help troubleshoot customers or friends. You can also use it to make a demo of your product as well as a short briefing with your colleagues or students.
Loom for Chrome has good integrations and can be embedded in Slack, Gmail, Notion, Coda, Intercom, and Headway.
Most interestingly, you are able to add CTA to create an engagement with your audience and monitor who’s watched your video.
Loom offers free service for the starter plan. But, if you are a teacher or student at K-12 schools, universities, or educational institutions, you can use Loom for free. Visit www.loom.com/education for the detail.
Get Loom on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 8.62MB)
13. Evernote Web Clipper
Collect ideas and inspiration from the blog post you read with Evernote Web Clipper.
This Evernote extension lets you save the whole page or just highlight the important details. Then, you are able to add texts to the screenshot using the annotate tools and access the information whenever you need it.
Since Evernote Web Clipper is integrated with the Evernote app, all articles you clip will be synced automatically. It means you can access the information from any device as long as you have the Evernote app installed.
The Evernote extension has a tagging feature that can be used to group the article in a quick way. It helps you to organize and find the article whenever you want to read it.
Get Evernote Web Clipper on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 3.36MB)
14. Save to Pocket
Do you find a good article to read but have no time at the moment? Save it to Pocket and read it whenever you want.
Save to Pocket is a useful Chrome extension that you need to capture articles, videos, and other content you find on the internet. It is like having a pocket to store all the important information that you need to read later.
To make your articles more organized, you can add tags. It will also help you when you need to find the articles quickly.
Do you want to read more articles that have similar topics? Pocket Chrome extension will find them for you. It’s able to recognize the articles you save and provide you with relevant stories.
With the Pocket Chrome extension, you’ll build the library of your interest.
Get Pocket on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 1.39MB)
15. Checker Plus for Gmail
Have a hard time managing the emails coming into your accounts? Checker Plus for Gmail can help you manage your multiple email accounts in a quick and simple way.
With Checker Plus for Gmail, you no longer need to open your Gmail accounts to read and delete emails. Interestingly, this extension can read the message for you. So, you will still be able to listen to the message while busy doing something else.
Checker Plus for Gmail allows you to create a custom label so that you can easily recognize the emails at a glance – whether it’s an important email or just spam. So, you know what actions you should take in seconds.
Save your time organizing your emails and never miss important messages anymore with this incredible extension.
Get Checker Plus for Gmail on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 2.11MB)
16. RightInbox: Email Remainders, Tracking, Notes
Have you ever wondered how many people have read your email? Can you?
Yes, you can!
RightInbox allows you to track your emails – it tells you who has opened your emails and clicked your emails link.
Why do you need RightInbox extension?
Imagine if you are doing email marketing. Every day, you are sending hundreds of emails to everyone. But do you know how many of them read your email? Or even click the promotion link in your email?
If you don’t know the number, how can you tell if your email marketing succeed? Hence, you need RightInbox to help you track your emails.
RightInbox also provides an email template feature to save your time when you need to send lots of similar messages. It also has a Send Later feature that allows you to send emails at a specific time. It is very useful if you need to send an email to someone in a different time zone.
Here are other things you can do with Right Inbox:
- Create the ideal email signature for any type of contact, email, or scenario, and easily switch between them.
- Remind yourself to follow up on important messages.
- Add private notes about your thoughts and ideas to emails.
- Provide a visual preview of links you share in the emails because no one likes clicking unknown links.
- and more.
RightInbox is free to use with a limited feature. To have access to unlimited features, you can upgrade your account for $7.95 per month.
Or, save 25% by purchasing annually.
Get RightInbox on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 1.73MB)
17. Touch VPN – Secure and unlimited VPN proxy
Do you have certain websites that you want to open, but are blocked due to region restriction or geoblocking? If so, use Touch VPN.
Touch VPN lets you mask your IP address to unblock websites. It’s also able to change your original country so that you can bypass the geoblocking rule. Hence, you have access to any website that you want.
Touch VPN offers unlimited bandwidth and free service. It provides great security so that you remain safe while surfing the web. Besides, Touch VPN will keep you anonymous.
When you are using public Wifi, you are vulnerable to any kind of digital attacks. Your data like name, passwords, and other personal information can be compromised.
If you don’t want this to happen, use Touch VPN. It will secure your data by encrypting them with banking-level security. So, you’ll get full protection while browsing the internet.
However, we strongly suggest you never open websites that require login like internet banking while using public wifi.
Get Touch VPN on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 1.63MB)
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18. Kami for Google Chrome
Imagine if you have an interactive learning environment. I bet your class would be as fun as a theme park.
With the Kami Chrome extension, you can transform the way you teach, feedback, and assess your students in a more interesting way. Your class would be more alive and fun. And there will be lots of smiles on your students’ faces.
Kami Chrome extension lets you change any document, PDF, image, or another learning source into something interesting. It allows both teachers and students to work collaboratively through many fun activities like drawings, audio recordings, annotations, and more.
All this can be done within minutes for free.
Most importantly, the Kami Chrome extension has great integration with Google Classroom, Canvas, and Schoology.
What are you waiting for now? Bring fun to your classroom and create an interactive learning environment with the Kami Chrome extension.
Get Kami on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 166KB)
19. Momentum
Setting your goal for the day is one of the ways to increase your productivity.
So, have you set your goal today?
Use the Momentum Chrome extension on your browser, to build this tiny yet powerful habit for improving your productivity.
Momentum will change your boring new tab page with a big clock to remind you about the time and inspirational quotes to increase your motivation and focus.
It also shows a stunning image used as the background that will refresh your eyes.
Momentum also offers great integrations with Asana, Trello, Todoist, Wunderlist, Google Tasks, and GitHub. So, you can track your tasks with the to-do list.
Enjoy the next level of increasing your productivity with Momentum.
Get Momentum on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 13.02MB)
20. Office
No more back and forth opening your browser and Office to edit your documents. With the Office Chrome extension, you are able to view and edit your Office documents in your browser as well as create new ones.
Office lets you integrate Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote without needing to install them on your computer. All document creating and editing is done from your Chrome browser. It’s very useful and time-saving that can improve your productivity.
The office is integrated with OneDrive and OneDrive for Business. It means all your files will be stored in OneDrive and you are able to access them from anywhere. Isn’t it cool?
Get Office on Chrome Extension Store (Size – 1.18MB)
Conclusion
Those were the 20 Chrome extensions you must have to boost your productivity.
To add a Chrome extension to your browser, you can just click the Add to Chrome button. Then, click Add extension to install it on your browser. You will see the extension icon next to the address bar when it’s been installed.
On the other hand, if you wish to remove Chrome extensions, visit chrome://extensions/. Click Remove on the Chrome extension that you want to delete.
Keep in mind to update both your browser and extensions regularly to keep them working at their best.
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