5 Online Tools That Will Boost Your Productivity

We’re a business coaching company so we take productivity very seriously. Here’s 5 of our favourite online productivity tools that our team uses in-house…

FollowUpThen

What it does: Let’s you schedule email reminders quickly and easily
What it’s good for: Clearing emails out of your inbox that don’t need to be answered immediately, reminding yourself to follow up on sales leads and networking contacts

Wunderlist

What it does: It’s a beautifully designed task manager that keeps track of your tasks, deadlines and priorities
What it’s good for: Getting to-dos out your head and into a system, adding tasks on your smartphone when your out of the office

TeamGantt

What it does: Makes Gant charts so you can roadmap your medium/long term business plan.
What it’s good for: Project managing complex projects, tracking progress and productivity of a team, estimating timescales for medium/long term plans.

Trello

What it does: It’s a highly intuitive and adaptable task management system that you can use to organise and track all kinds of business processes.
What it’s good for: People who prefer visual organisation systems, tracking tasks and accountability on projects as a team, processes with multiple repeatable stages (like recruitment, client projects, product development).

Google Drive

What it does: Keeps your teams’ documents synced and accessible anywhere.
What it’s good for: Avoiding the problem of different people having different versions of a document, if several team members want to work on the same document at the same time, sharing resources across your business.