{"id":3075,"date":"2020-12-15T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2020-12-15T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T22:27:08","slug":"time-saving-apps-for-the-gent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/time-saving-apps-for-the-gent\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Saving Apps for the Gent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve <\/span>reviewed apps<\/span><\/a> before and shared some <\/span>productivity techniques (like the Pomodoro)<\/span><\/a>, so in this article we thought we would combine the two and look at some time saving and productivity apps that are helping Gents save more time and perform at their best.<\/span><\/p>\n

Time Savers<\/span><\/h2>\n

Despite being surrounded by \u201clabor saving\u201d devices that are supposed to make life easier for us, for many it seems as though they\u2019ve never had less time. Here are three apps to help you reclaim some of that time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Calendly\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

We\u2019ve all gone through that email exchange in order to figure out a good time to meet in person or by telephone. When it\u2019s just a couple people this might be accomplished in 2-4 emails, but when it\u2019s for three or more, look out! <\/span>Calendly provides a single-click solution<\/span><\/a>: a landing page that is synced with the online calendar of your choice. The free version allows you to test drive for one type of event (e.g. \u201cin person coffee meeting\u201d), the paid version starts at $8\/month and allows you to create an unlimited number of event types built around availability that you customize.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Doodle<\/span><\/h3>\n

A free tool that allows you to find the best day and time for a meeting when you\u2019re dealing with groups of people is <\/span>Doodle<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a simple interface that presents options to your various recipients in their individual time zones.\u00a0 No more head-scratching trying to figure which times work best for everyone involved.\u00a0 Put in\u00a0all the\u00a0times that are possible for everyone and allow people to vote for what works for them: you pick the one(s) that make the most sense\/get the most votes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unroll.me<\/span><\/h3>\n

We all get newsletters that we rarely read, yet for some reason we can\u2019t bring ourselves to unsubscribe.\u00a0 Unroll.me<\/a> does a bit of both.\u00a0 While it encourages you to unsubscribe from newsletters that you don\u2019t read, it rolls all your newsletters into one bundle for you to read when you want.\u00a0 It\u2019s a totally free service powered by a big data firm that extracts purchase information from commercial emails.<\/span><\/p>\n

Productivity<\/span><\/h2>\n

It’s not enough to save time; we want to make the best of the time we do have.\u00a0 Here are five apps to help you do precisely that.<\/p>\n

Rescue Time<\/span><\/h3>\n

This app<\/span><\/a> will tell you what programs and websites you spend the most time on, using a scale which goes from \u201cvery productive\u201d to \u201cvery distracting.\u201d\u00a0 You can also use it to block certain websites when you need to focus.\u00a0 Apple users can use \u201cScreen Time\u201d for some of this data, which can be found in Settings, though that program doesn\u2019t have the functionality that Rescue Time offers.\u00a0 The most robust version of Rescue Time costs $9\/month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this same category is a <\/span>free chrome extension called Stayfocusd<\/span><\/a> partnered with an app called <\/span>Freedom<\/span><\/a> which can block websites during set days and times or after a limit that you set up (e.g. no more than 30 minutes of Instagram per day).<\/span><\/p>\n

Boomerang<\/span><\/h3>\n

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and some of the favorite functionalities of Boomerang\u00a0have been emulated by various email providers, like Gmail, though not in as intuitively and simply as Boomerang does.<\/span><\/p>\n

Among many other features, <\/span>Boomerang allows you to track your emails<\/span><\/a> by setting \u201cboomerangs\u201d to come back to you, i.e. if an email you sent doesn\u2019t get a response within a set amount of time, or if you want it to boomerang back to you regardless, it will show up in your inbox again after a set amount of time.\u00a0 For those who never want to lose track of emails again, Boomerang gives you 10 free a month to try, then various pricing plans from $5 to $15\/month beyond those 10.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evernote<\/span><\/h3>\n

One of the older apps in the productivity space, Evernote was founded in 2000 as a way to keep track of just about everything:<\/span><\/p>\n