10 Free Chrome Extensions To Accelerate Your Productivity

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Alex Brogan
March 26, 2023 • Read Time: 6 minutes

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This Week: 10 Free Chrome Extensions To Accelerate Your Productivity

Tutorial generator everyone needs for teaching people how to use any website/app/tool.

Click record.

Do the thing.

Boom.

Auto-generated step-by-step guide for the thing you just did.

Beats taking screenshots and pasting into docs all day long.

The world’s first AI-powered journal!

It makes thinking with mental models and frameworks actionable through structured writing templates and intelligent chatbots.

Mindsera smart analysis generates an original artwork based on your writing, measures your emotional state, reflects on your personality, and gives personalised suggestions to help you improve.

Try the copilot for the mind here.

Momentum has been my longest-standing chrome extension—it turns your New Tab page into a focused, productive dashboard.

Features:

• Save links

• Choose powerful quotes

• View beautiful scenery daily

• Have your to-do list readily available

Wordtune is an AI-powered writing tool that understands what you’re trying to say, and suggests ways to make your writing more clear, compelling, and authentic.

It helps:

• Reduce editing time

• Write confidently

• Expand vocabulary

• Write clearly

Wordtune | Your personal writing assistant & editor

Wordtune is the ultimate AI writing tool that rewrites and rephrases your writing! Get AI-powered suggestions to instantly improve everything you write.

https://t.co/p23Q80Lpij

So, it turns out there's a brain hack to increase reading speed just by changing how text is presented.

The enhanced version is called bionic text.

And Bionic Reading is the world’s first bionic reading chrome extension.

BR for You.

Bionic Reading® App for iOS, Android & Web. Only the Gold award-winning App is good enough. For you. Get Bionic Reading®. Even better. Even more features. But always unique. Like you.

https://t.co/svyOmEr2DB

Toucan is your best friend for learning a new language efficiently.

It turns words in your browser into a language of your choice, helping you pick them up in your natural browsing activities.

Friction to learning new languages = removed.

Toucan - Learn a new language just by browsing the internet.

Toucan is a free web browser extension that helps you learn new languages without flashcards, hours-long classes or intimidating tests.

https://t.co/sp1fTtQPtp

Print Friendly removes ads, navigation and junk on any web page, allowing you to print clean.

You can also:

• Click-to-delete specific content

• Remove individual images

• Change font sizes

• Generate PDFs

If you’re like me and have 3,000 tabs open at once, Toby is for you.

It levels up your browser by organizing your tabs— so you can access key resources in one-click instead of seven.

Use tags, make collections or save a whole session in just one-click.

Waldo is like Google search on steroids.

Its promise?

Halve your research time, using the best curated sources online.

It deep scans each search result to pull out useful ideas or relevant data in an easily skimmable, searchable format.

A web scraper that's fast, free & requires no coding or signup.

Designed to run locally in your browser, you can scrape into Airtable, Zapier, G Sheets & more with 1 click.

You can even create automated scraping recipes and turn them into APIs.

Simplescraper — Scrape Websites and turn them into APIs

The easiest way to scrape the web — a fast, free, and easy to use Chrome extension for scraping websites in your browser or automated in the cloud.

https://t.co/sgNm46VwM2

Online stores send thousands of deal emails per day.

Checkmate collects them for you and automatically applies them while you shop to save $$.

It works on mobile and web, and has more public codes than any other online savings tool.

Checkmate.

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There you have it, 10 free Chrome extensions.

I hope you found these as helpful as I have.

Stay curious,

Alex

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