20 powerful tools to unleash your Blogging Potential, Supercharge Productivity and Amplify Success.

It’s really hard to get the work done while many tabs are stacked up one by one and asking for your attention all the time.

All the social networks and other online channels are deliberately designed in such a way that, once you visit, you should stay there for a longer period and be addicted to them as much as possible.

Having said that, the internet is also a place where A LOT of work happens. To get your task done, you need to have some schedules, tricks, and ways out of those distractions.

To do so, we again can depend on the internet and make use of some Productivity tools available to our advantage.

So, here are 20 Productivity tools I have personally used one or the other time, and that helped me a ton as a blogger. 

20 Tools to Skyrocket Blogger’s Productivity.

1. Grammarly.

If you know this tool already, then I would give it to the popularity of Grammarly.

You may be a grammar perfectionist or grammar god, but there will be times when you make grammatical mistakes that you may not even notice when you are typing fast.

Being a non-native speaker, I can’t even imagine writing articles, editing, and proofreading them later on without the help of tools.

Here comes this superhero to your rescue.

That tiny extension on your browser does a wonderful job of correcting your errors right away, whether it is a grammatical error or punctuation.

From grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps you eliminate errors and find the perfect words to express yourself, thereby it increases the readability of your content.

It is better to correct your mistakes before publishing the articles or sending that emails than send them with the errors and get embarrassed later on. 

This smart tool increases your Productivity and saves a ton of your time by proofreading and highlighting the errors with red underlines while you are typing. 

Though there are a lot of such tools available, Grammarly clocks high because of its almost near perfection and ease of use.

The paid version of this tool also does a job of plagiarism checking, advanced grammar correction, alternate word suggestion, etc.

The free version is more than enough if you are a beginner. 

Another cool thing about Grammarly is this weekly writing update which arrives in your inbox. 

Isn’t it cool to know about your Productivity, writing activity, and the statistics you did for the week? It somehow motivates me to write more every week. 

2. Writingstreak.io

It is a web page, not an extension.

Blogging is not at all an easy task, it’s hard. To do this hard task you need to cultivate some habits that push you even when you don’t want to do it. 

As a blogger, writing content is the one task that you have to master. There is no easy hack. To write quality content, you need both experiences in writing and discipline to write. 

Here comes this tool handy for building writing habits and bringing discipline to your content goal.

How does it work? 

Pretty simple and straightforward interface. Go ahead and register with your email id, create your profile, and head straight to settings. 

Set how many words you are targeting for the month or any given period. You can set the target in days or months as you desire. (You can also use it without registering, but nothing harm in registering and you will get a graphical profile view like this)

Here, this section shows all your activities and how many days you are achieving your goals. It presents all your activity statistics in an interesting chart.

All the days you achieved your goal will be shown in the circle and if you haven’t met for any day it will show in squares.

You can even set email reminders so that you don’t miss writing any given day. 

Another best feature of this website is that, as soon as you create your profile, it gives you a shareable profile link, which you can send to anybody. Having an accountability partner who can kick in your backside when you are skipping your goal is a huge advantage.

This tool is pretty much easy to use and I love its distraction-free writing mode. Do give it a try. And I am sure it will boost your productivity and consistency.

3. Coschedule Headline Studio

People don’t even bother about clicking your link if the headline is not catchy. 

You got a millisecond to grab the attention of your reader and make them click and visit your blog or website. 

It is tough to write compelling headlines, it is even more tough to write headlines that are worth a click and also have an SEO value. 

Now imagine, after writing all those informative articles hours together, you were not able to generate a click-worthy headline that catches the attention of the readers. 

Or you may not even know how your headline smells to the audience and to the search engines.

So, how to write a catchy headline?

Here, this productivity tool from Coschedule analyzes the given headline with different parameters like emotion, sentiment, common words, power words, etc. 

You can see the Headline score and the SEO score of your headline. It also shows the length and the word count of the headlines and suggests the best practice to make your headline more attractive.

By following the instructions given, you can improve your headlines and bring more clicks to your blog. 

So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and install the extension or make use of the ‘Coschedule headline analyzer’ website and write better and catchy headlines.

4. Mozbar Extension

If you know about SEO, I am damn sure you have heard of MOZ.com. 

Moz bar is a free tool of Moz.com that shows you the important SEO metrics of the websites like Domain authority(DA) and page authority(PA)

Let me remind you that this is a bit heavy extension that can hamper your browser speed and it doesn’t add any other functions. 

Just to check the DA and PA of the websites, why should you try this?

Well, if you know about SEO, you also know about link building, guest posting, etc.

Your blog’s rating and ranking will drastically increase when you have a backlink from high-authority websites/blogs.

To check these metrics you need the Mozbar extension. Upon installing, it will show you the DA and PA as shown in the image above, of all the websites in search results when you search for anything.

5. Keywords Everywhere

Of all the tasks of SEO, keyword research is the most crucial one. 

Because it is the right keywords that can bring the right kind of audience to your blog. 

When you optimize your article according to the needs of your users who are looking for solutions in the same niche, you will have plenty of visitors to your blogs. 

To optimize your blog with the right keywords you need to find them first. 

Keywords Everywhere is an extension that helps you to get the right set of keywords for the main seed keyword. 

After installing this extension, all you have to do is search for the keywords in Google, and you will see all the related keywords of the same topic.

If you want to see more metrics like search volume and CPC of the keywords, you need to upgrade your plan. 

This tool will definitely increase your productivity in terms of keyword research by providing the relevant keywords right on the SERP result page.

6. Business Name Generator

Have you ever thought of coming up with a crazy or brandable name for your business or blog?

Oh yes, we do it always. Right? 

Let’s say you came up with an exceptional name in your mind for the blog after spending hours and hours together. But when you try to register it, you will realize that your crazy name has already been taken. 

Ah! Frustrating, isn’t it? All your productive time is wasted for nothing.

It is a sad truth that almost all the brandable and cool domain names had already been taken by domain-selling agencies with the help of AI.

But, here is a tool that can help you to come up with a classy name for your next blog or business in a matter of time. 

All you have to do is enter the seed keyword in your niche and you will see a ton of names with the different combinations. You can even check the availability of the names right there on this site.

Try filtering your search with different combination words such as rhyming words, one word, two words, etc. 

7. Trello

If you are a blogger or a wannabe blogger, the truth is blogging is not easy. 

So many tasks you have to do daily. Moreover managing all these tasks makes it even more difficult for beginners. 

The tool that I use to manage all my tasks is Trello.

This is a pretty lightweight and super useful task management tool that has a simple yet futuristically made drag-and-drop interface where you can organize your daily tasks into lists or cards.

Once created the tasks, you can drag the particular task to the other list when it is finished. Also, you can set deadlines for each of the tasks. 

You can also add a detailed description, checklists, and more. 

If you have a team working for you, with the help of this tool, you can easily monitor all the work happening in one place. This is by far one of the best management tools available for teams as well as for individuals.

8. Fireshot

This is a tiny extension that sits on your browser and does a wonderful job of taking screenshots of the pages as you like. It offers many easy-to-use features and the best part is you can capture the whole page or a selected area or whole screen or visible area only. 

When researching the content, you may come across some pages that contain relevant information you cannot miss or ignore. Now imagine taking screenshots of all the important sections of the articles separately, one by one. A headache! Right?

With the help of this tool, you can take a screenshot of the entire article and keep it on your desktop for future reading.

Life is easy, and you have a more productive time. Isn’t it?

9. Evernote Web Clipper

If you are an Evernote user, this extension is for you. Sometimes you may not like to save the entire article to your device as a screenshot. Then you can use this tool to save the important contents you come across while researching for your blog. 

Clip any articles, screenshots, or whatever for that matter to your Evernote and access it from any device anywhere.

10. Snov.io

It doesn’t matter whether you are a blogger or a recruiter or a business owner, you need the email address of people with whom you want to work or get things done. 

But one thing you will agree with me is the difficulty of getting the correct email addresses.

In such cases, Snov.io comes handy. This tool is an email finder with an Inbuilt email verifier, email drip campaigns, etc. With the help of this tool, you can find your prospects verified emails, add them to your mailing system, and nurture them for the future.

This tool shows you the email addresses by scraping all the information available in the public domain.

Enter the website you are looking for and click on the S extension and boom. It will show you all the available email addresses of that company. 

Worried about your productivity loss in saving emails of prospects from LinkedIn or any professional networks? Try using this tool.

11. Video Speed Controler

As a blogger, you need to research a lot to get new ideas for your content, and sometimes research includes videos. Some website provides you with a video but you cannot adjust the playing speed and you don’t even know how long this video will be. 

If you think you can pause it and can resume it later, it will start all over again. A big headache. Right? Even Facebook and Twitter don’t allow you to adjust the playing speed of the videos.

With the help of this extension, you can watch any HTML5 video at whatever speed you like. 

Most of the time I watch videos at 1.5 speed. Try it. You will realize how powerful your concentration is.😉

12. Newsfeed Eradicator for Facebook

Don’t get confused by the name. It can also eradicate feeds from Twitter.

As a blogger, you need to spend time on Facebook and Twitter for blog promotions and connecting with your audience. While you are at it, imagine the Facebook algorithm pushing a video where one of the top bloggers explains the blogging strategies.

Of curiosity, you start watching it. And you watch the next video from someone else and the next, the next and it goes on. Before you realize it, your precious and productive time has gone in a matter of time.

Here comes this handy extension.

The ‘Feed’ is the most addictive part of FB and Twitter, and this tool removes it entirely and replaces it instead with an inspirational quote.

Activate it and forget about the news feeds in your timeline.

You can use Facebook for your blog promotion and get back to your work once you are done with that and notice your productivity coming back on track. Try using this tool.

13. Forest

This is the quirkiest productivity extension on this list.

Want to grow forests virtually for spending your time wisely and productively?

Forest is an app for mobile and an extension for browsers that allows you to add the website that you want to block or restrict for distraction-free work. Once you add the websites to the blocklist, it plants a seed🌱in the forest.

Yeah! You heard it right. A virtual seed.

In the next 30 minutes, this seed will gradually grow into a tree.

If you try to access those blocked websites in that period, your display shows a message that your tree is still growing. If you ignore this and anyway visit the websites, your tree will die. The idea is to grow an entire forest.

By the time you grow a forest, you would have accomplished so many things and dreams that are otherwise ignored. Consider using this tool for your increased productivity.

14. Freedom

Want to block the time-consuming apps or websites on all of your devices?

Then it is the best tool you can get on the internet. It does a pretty good job of blocking all the websites you want on all of your devices, simultaneously.

What is the use of blocking Facebook or Twitter on your computer, only to open it on your little gadget? If you add websites to this tool and start a session, your distractions are blocked everywhere. 

You can also set up as many blocklists as you want. What makes it more useful is the lockdown mode, which makes the editing of your blocklists impossible while your session is running. 

Love to work in the coffee shop environment or nature?

The web version of this tool also has optional focus sounds which you can make use of if you like to work with such ambient background music.

The only downside of this tool is it is not free. You can use this tool to have only 7 distraction-free sessions. If you want to have such a handy tool by your side, 7 sessions should be enough to decide the usefulness of this tool. 

15. Mindful Browsing

Don’t want to block your favorite, time-consuming social media sites and wait till the blocking apps unblock them? 

You can use this cool and free Chrome extension to help you track your online activity and become mindful of your time consumption and increase productivity. 

It doesn’t block your websites; instead, when you visit the website that you want to track your activity, it shows you a message like – “Are you sure you want to spend time on this site?”

You can say yes and use it for 10 mins or you can click ‘Actually Nah’ and continue your productive routine. If you proceed to have a look at your time-eating and distracting websites, the Mindful browser will remind you after 10 minutes that there is something else important you should be doing.

One more useful feature of this extension is that you can create a list of activities or projects you want to do instead of browsing the endless feeds and this tool will remind you about that project you’re intended to finish.

16. Noisli

Are you the kind of person who loves background noise or music while working?

If you get relaxed and feel focused while listening to music, then this extension is for you. 

You can listen to various music like birds chirping in the forest, thunder, flowing river, coffee shop ambiance, etc. You can also create a mix of music that you want to listen to. 

No more dead silence or annoying and distracting sounds from the outside.

Switch to Noisily and set the desired background noise to improve your attention and concentration on your essential tasks. 

The free version gives you a good collection and if you want to use more functions you can upgrade it to 10$ a month. 

17. Link miner

If you are a blogger or wannabe blogger, SEO is the one thing you have to take care of to get good rankings for your blog or website. A 404 error alone can hamper your site’s performance.

To improve your site rankings, you need to fix all those broken links. To fix this, you need to find them in the first place. 

And if you ever tried broken link building, you know the pain to find broken links on any of the given websites.

To make your task easy and save some precious time, this extension comes in handy.

This is a free tool that helps you to check web pages for broken links if any. 

Go to the webpage you like to inspect and then click on the Link Miner extension. 

And it shows you all the metrics. You can easily spot the broken links that are highlighted in the red background. With the help of this tool, you can also get the important SEO metrics for the search results as well. 

18. Last Pass

As a blogger, you have to sign up for a lot of tools, websites, and learning materials. 

Every website or tool requires a username and password to log in. 

You can remember some of the passwords and most of the time you end up clicking that “forgot password?” below the login option. How to remember all those passwords?

Having the same password on all the platforms is a terrible idea. 

To help you with this headache, the last pass is created. 

How does it work? You have to sign in for this as well and remember the password. Now remember this password and forget the rest. Every time you sign up to any website, just add the credentials to this site and it stores it safely and securely. 

19. Buffer

As a blogger, you need to spend a lot of time promoting your content on various social media platforms. It takes a lot of patience to copy-paste the same content on all of these platforms.

Buffer- a social media management tool, that makes it easy to share posts on your social media with just a single click. 

All you have to do is post your content to buffer and integrate it with your favorite social media accounts including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. And your content will be shared on different social media accounts simultaneously. 

You can also schedule your post as you desire. 

20. Canva

Thinking of hiring designers for the graphics and images?

Stop! You don’t have to. 

With thousands of pre-made templates and easy-to-edit, drag-and-drop features, Canva makes it easy for anyone to design their ideas as they, please.

With over 60 million active users across 190 countries as of 2022, Canva is certainly the most popular and loved tool on this list.

From pdf, presentations, professional brochures, background removal, stickers, and graphics to stock images and whatnot, Canva makes it easier to achieve your design goals.
The free plan is more than enough to start with if you are an absolute beginner.

If you are confused or got stuck, head over to a section called ‘Learn’ in the top bar. You can watch and learn the art of designing absolutely free.

Wrap Up.

All social media apps and other web pages try their best to keep you engaged with their content. To get your work done, there is nothing harm in using tools to counter it and use your time productively.

Note: Having too many extensions installed on your browser can make you feel like you are dealing with a Turtle and also it can drain your battery power quickly. So, use the one which is essential for your present work and clock your productivity to a new level.

Let me know if this list helped you to get the best productivity tools for you. Which one is your favorite? Do let me know.

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