Ever thought about how to organize your life? Well, life isn’t easy on the professional front. It is well understood. We have our inbox flooded with tasks, our desks scattered with to-do lists, and our notebook filled with notes. These all things piling up together make staying organized a serious chore.
And, you think you can’t do anything about that. But there is nothing like that. There are many tools to stay organized at work!
Whether you have organizational skills or not, but you need these tools. Thanks to technology that has gifted us many such tools. But there are many tools so how would you pick the one that you exactly need? Undoubtedly, it will be proportional to your needs.
However, we have created a list of 10 software DIY tools that will help you organize your life. Irrespective of your roles, these tools are going to save you valuable time.
Let’s talk about them one-by-one.
1. Rescue Time – for time management
Nobody is digitally immune these days. It has distractions at every step. And, it’s easy to get distracted. Rescue Time helps you keep track of your productivity. It tracks a record of how much time you spend online by monitoring your computer activities, programs used, active windows, and website visited.
The premium version comes with more advanced features that include the tracking of phone calls, breaks, and meeting. It also has on-screen alerts and reminders plus website blocking features to help you stay focused and productive. However, the tool also has a function of pausing or quitting the monitoring.
2. Trello – a trail of projects and tasks
Unless you’re a caveman, you have likely heard a lot of raving about this work tool. It is flexible, free and fun to work with. You can organize your simplest tasks to the most significant projects visually.
The tool is based on the Kanban system that makes each of your projects very visual. There are different cards and columns that you can drag and drop as per the status. You can easily track the status and see what work is going on which project. Even the scariest tasks and projects will fall in place.
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You will have a board to manage everything right from your assignments to to-do lists and projects. This tool is perfect for organizing each professional task in your life and in a user-friendly way! Even, you can collaborate with your teams to share responsibilities and monitor progress.
3. Dropbox – storing and sharing made simple
How many times your manager or boss has asked for a specific file? And, how many times have you dived deep into your computer to find that one? We know it’s not easy to find a particular file or document and it takes up a lot of your time as well. But thanks to Dropbox app, you can easily transfer the files and documents from your devices to others.
It’s free to use and makes transferring of the critical document more effortless on the go.
4. Evernote – organize all your notes
Note taking is an important practice. It allows professionals to memorize important pointers of a project, meeting, product or anything else. Using a pen and a notebook for the same purpose is very common. But it ends up being messy when we are in a hurry.
Thanks to Evernote— a modern tool to organize your life. The tool has been designed for taking note, organizing, archiving and task lists.
You can take notes on the go. Even, it allows you to format the text, web excerpts, web pages, voice memos, photographs, or hand-written ink-notes with ease! You can also attach files with specific notes. Later on, you can sort them into notebooks, annotated, tagged, commented, edited, exported, and searched.
As it is cross-platform software, you can use it on any device with any Operating System.
5. T-shirt maker – create custom t-shirts
Creating a custom t-shirts using graphics tools is a challenging process. What if you aren’t well-versed with Photoshop, Illustrator or any such tools? T-shirt maker tool irrespective of your know-how simplifies the process of designing a custom t-shirt for you.
Instead of designing in the traditional software, you can use this tool and save all your artwork in one place. As it is available online, you need not install it into your PC or laptop. Putting simple, you can access it on the go from anywhere.
Use its design lab that offers you hundreds of artworks and templates for selection. Or you can upload your self-created designs. The tool allows you to save each design individually for further use.
Companies dealing with custom clothing find this tool perfect for their tasks.
6. Unroll.me – keeps the junk emails at bay
Advertisers usually bombard us with promotional and junk emails every day. And, there comes a time when managing all the emails turns out to be mayhem. At times, it seems like our own email account is going out of our hands!
But, organizing emails is now more accessible. Thanks to the Unroll.me tool that helps you unsubscribe to junk emails by blocking your inbox in just one click. It also streamlines the emails that you want to keep. It has a “round-up” feature that gets you all your subscriptions in a single mail— making it easier to manage important emails without a miss.
7. SyncBackFree – backup, restore & synchronize
It’s a free tool that helps you to take a backup of all your files and data. Later on, you can restore as well as synchronize your files too. Using this tool not only saves your precious time but also keeps you away from future hurdles. What if you lose a file now, but later on, it becomes necessary to have? If you won’t have a backup of it, how would you get it back?
That’s a great organizing skill that every professional should practice. So, start using this tool right from today.
8. 1Password – remembering passwords made easy
Forgetting passwords is nothing new. With so many passwords and so many accounts that we own, it’s possible that our mind would skip a few. But, with 1Password tool, you don’t need to worry about that. You can keep each of your passwords in an encrypted database. And, that database will be protected by just one password. That’s why the name 1Password.
This application saves your valuable time that you would be otherwise investing in retrieving the lost one. It also lets you use different passwords for various accounts to keep security threats at bay.
9. TimeTree – share a calendar
Do you have a future event coming up? Do you want to coordinate such an event with your family and friends with no fuss at all? TimeTree is the best tool to do so. It allows not only families but teams to share many calendars and appointments at a single platform. Irrespective of the event, you can keep everything and everyone up to date with what’s going on and what needs to be done.
10. Launchy – smart way to interact with your PC
It’s yet another tool that helps you organize your life. You can launch your files, folders, documents, and bookmarks in just a few clicks. Every time you open an important file, you do not have to go to the start menu and launch it. All in all, it makes working on a PC quite easier.
Conclusion
This list isn’t all-inclusive but created with the tools that are best in managing your life. If you have any other tool in mind, do share with us.
