5 Firefox Plugins to Enhance Your Productivity
Having a job that revolves around the Internet comes with a fantastic amount of freedom. One of the things I love most about it is that I can set my own work schedule, something that a lot of office workers would give an arm and a leg for. However, this freedom comes with a flipside: if you’re not careful, you’ll procrastinate away your day, and end up with a pile of backlog. Making money online is not all about the latest marketing strategies. You also have to manage your productivity, just like any other job out there. Being prone to distractions myself, I try different ways to keep my bad habits in check, and among them is using some nifty Firefox plugins.
Beating a deadline? Reminder Fox can be configured to set an alarm at a specific time of the day, or periodically like every hour, just to remind you not to goof off. You can customize the alarm sound to any .WAV file like the ones here on The Free Site, or go record your own using Window’s built-in Sound Recorder to make it more fun.
This is a simple tool to measure how long you’ve been using the Firefox browser, and takes very little space on your status bar. It’s useful for measuring how long you take to finish each article or any other task, which helps you keep focused. Like the saying goes, if you can measure it, you can improve it.
The surfing addict’s dream. This plugin allows you to click on any link on a webpage and instead of the browser taking you there, it saves the link on your “Reading List”. This way, if you encounter something interesting, you don’t have to get distracted from work. And no more multiple open tabs to clutter your workspace!
Ever accidentally closed the wrong tab and cursed yourself for it? It happens to me a lot, so before I had to go through my cluttered browser history, which wasn’t very easy because I go through maybe over a hundred web pages a day doing research. With this tool, it’s like a one-click undo, and you can set it to remember up to the last 99 closed tabs, but the default is a more manageable 10. Now this should be a standard feature on all browsers.
For those who keep constant vigil over their AdSense earnings, this is an indispensable tool. No longer will you have to login to the AdSense site every time or refresh your browser every few minutes – this plugin will do it for you. It can show your total page impressions, clicks, CTR, and eCPM, and earnings for the day, depending on how you configure it. AdSense Notifier can fetch new data in as frequent as every 15 minutes. A caveat, it stopped working with FF 3.01, so use this only if you have an older version of the browser.
Do you use other Firefox plugins to help you work faster? Please share them in the comments section below.
