Blogging Tools to Help You Save Time,To Keep You Organized Work Better
Everyone loves to scoff at bloggers because from the outside,
blogging seems like an easy job, although in reality it is anything but.
There’s just so much that you have to do right from ideation to
distribution of content: Plan, research, organize, write, design, share,
and those are only the most obvious steps!
stunning images—these tools have got you covered.
Slack
Slack is team communication for the 21st century. It allows you to
organize your team conversations in open channels. Make a channel for a
project, a topic, a team, or anything—everyone has a transparent view of
all that’s going on.
For sensitive information, you can create private channels and invite
a few team members. No one else can see or join your private
channels. To reach a colleague directly, send them a Direct Message.
It’s completely private and secure.
All your files, images, PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets can be
dropped right into Slack and shared with anyone you want. Add comments,
star for later reference, and it’s all completely searchable.
If you use any services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box, just
paste the link and that document is immediately in sync and searchable
too.
Keywordtool.io
Keyword tool is the best alternative to Google Keyword Planner. Every
search is an expression of people’s needs, wants, interests and
desires. Imagine how your business would benefit if you could analyze
these search terms that are related to your business domain and
customize your product to serve the actual needs of your customers.
Keyword Tool will help you discover thousands of the new long-tail
keywords related to the topic that you specify by generating Google’s
auto suggestions. The suggestions will be generated based on the Google
domain and language that you choose.
Evernote
Evernote is the app to manage it all.
Create a project to-do list. Jot down a reminder. Or snap a picture
of a sketch. A note can be anything you want it to be. And once you make
a note, it’s accessible wherever you go, forever.
Capture a note once, and it’s instantly available on all your
devices. Never worry about where you saved something because it’s in
Evernote, and Evernote is wherever you are.
Whether it’s text, images or documents, you keep things for a reason.
That’s why Evernote makes sure the notes you’ve saved are easy to find.
You can even search for handwritten words buried deep within your
notes.
Share what matters with the people who matter to you. Capture life’s
little moments and share them from wherever you happen to be. Or share
big ideas by collaborating seamlessly with co-workers in a group
notebook.
Image Suite
Image Suite is a WordPress plugin that finds and lets you edit 100%
free images you can adapt and use at will. It comes with an advanced
filtering technology that fetches only images which are free for
commercial use.
Your images come from the best sources—Flickr, Pixabay, Wikimedia
Commons, Europeana, Openclipart, Find Icons, Instagram, Icon Finder and
Youzign.
Find 100s of relevant HD images with a click–just enter your keyword
in the search box and within few seconds ImageSuite will return a range
of high definition quality images you can adapt and use in you blog
post.A click on an image brings it up on a clean lightbox preview–click
the next or back arrow to navigate between the result pages. Everything
happens within your wordpress dashboard. Working with ImageSuite is
easy, simple, fast and hassle-free.
A click on an image brings it up on a clean lightbox preview–click
the next or back arrow to navigate between the result pages. Everything
happens within your WordPress dashboard. Working with ImageSuite is
easy, simple, fast and hassle-free.
RescueTime
RescueTime helps you understand your daily habits so you can focus
and be more productive. It runs securely in the background on your
computer and mobile devices and tracks time spent on applications and
websites, giving you an accurate picture of your day. It also gives you
detailed reports and data based on your activity.
Here are some other features of RescueTime:
- Set alerts to let you know when you spent a certain amount of time on an activity.
- Log highlights about what you accomplished during the day.
- Block distracting websites by choosing an amount of time to focus and RescueTime will block those websites.
- How much time did you spend on email? In meetings? RescueTime gives you the answers.
- Time measurement when you want it. Pause or quit at any time. You are in complete control.
EMV Headline Analyzer
This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional
Marketing Value (EMV) score. As you know, connecting with your customers
in a deep and emotional way is a key to successful copywriting, and
your headline is unquestionably the most important piece of copy you use
to reach prospects.
Your headline will be analyzed and scored based on the total number
of EMV words it has in relation to the total number of words it
contains. This will determine the EMV score of your headline.
CoSchedule Headline Analyzer
Some headline types get more traction than others for social shares,
traffic, and search engine ranking. The headline analyzer helps you
understand your headline types to capitalize on this research.
It will also help you ensure that you have the right balance of
common, uncommon, emotional, and power words in your headlines. This
structure makes sure your headlines are readable while commanding
attention from your audience.
Headline analyzer also tells you the optimal character length for
search engines like Google and email subject lines, while also giving a
glimpse of how your readers will scan your headlines.
Grammarly
Grammarly
Editor is an automated proofreader that corrects contextual spelling
mistakes by instantly finding and correcting over 250 types of
grammatical mistakes, detects plagiarism by checking your text against
over 8 billion web pages, and improves your word choice with
context-optimized vocabulary suggestions.
PhotoPin
PhotoPin helps bloggers find photos for their blog and makes adding
them to their post fast and easy. Just search for any topic using the
search box (e.g. “Kittens”, “Flowers”, etc.), preview the photo, and
click “get photo” to download the photo as well as the proper
attribution link. PhotoPin uses the Flickr API and searches creative
commons photos to use for your blog.
Wunderlist
Wunderlist is the easiest way to get stuff done. Whether you’re
planning a holiday, sharing a shopping list with a partner or managing
multiple work projects, Wunderlist is here to help you tick off all your
personal and professional to-dos.
Set Due Dates and Reminders and Assign to-dos. No matter whether your
lists are work related or just for fun, you will never miss a deadline
again with Wunderlist in charge.
Share your lists and collaborate on projects with your colleagues, friends, and family.
Selfcontrol
SelfControl is a free and open-source application for Mac OS X that
lets you block your own access to distracting websites, your mail
servers, or anything else on the Internet. Just set a period of time to
block for, add sites to your blacklist, and click “Start.”
Until that timer expires, you will be unable to access those sites—even if you restart your computer or delete the application.
Canva
Much more than just an image tool, Canva is a web-based design tool
that allows people who aren’t designers to create beautiful graphics Web
or print: blog graphics, infographics, book covers, flyers, posters,
invitations, and much more.
The drag-and-drop interface is a delight to use and makes the process
of designing ridiculously simple. You can either use pre-made layouts
or add a background, text, and design elements to create your own custom
design.
WiseStamp
The WiseStamp email platform offers a free easy email signature
solution with hundreds of elegantly designed templates, tons of email
apps and services, an easy-to-add browser extension, and fast email
signature generator.
It works on all email platforms, including Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail,
AOL, Outlook, MacMail, iPhone, Thunderbird and more, and offers lots of
social media apps and icons, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Pinterest and more.
Lightshot
Lightshot is the fastest way to take a customizable screenshot. The
app allows you to select any area on your desktop and take its
screenshot with 2 button-clicks. It has a simple and intuitive user
interface that makes your work with the app easier and faster. You can
upload your screenshot to the server and get its short link right away.
You can edit screenshots instantly or later using a powerful online
editor. Lightshot is available for Windows/Mac, Chrome, Firefox, IE
& Opera.
Fiverr
Fiverr is the world’s largest marketplace for creative and
professional services with instant access to access to millions of
“Gigs” from people who love what they do. Categories in which you can
find service providers include: Graphics & Design, Writing,
Translation, Business, Tech, and many more.
There are no bids or negotiation, you just need to pay $5 per
gig. Transactions and communication are safe and secure. You’ll never
pay for a service that’s not delivered. Should you have any
issues, Fiverr has outstanding 24/7 customer support.
Trello
Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into
boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what’s being worked on, who’s
working on what, and where something is in a process.
A Trello board is a list of lists, filled with cards, used by you and
your team. It’s a lot more than that, though. Trello has everything you
need to organize projects of any size.
Open a card and you can add comments, upload file attachments, create checklists, add labels and due dates, and more.
You can invite as many people to your board as you need, all for
free. Drag and drop people to cards to divvy up tasks. Everyone sees the
same board and the whole picture all at once.
StayFocusd
StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps
you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend
on time-wasting websites.
Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.
It is highly configurable, allowing you to block or allow entire
sites, specific subdomains, specific paths, specific pages, even
specific in-page content (videos, games, images, forms, etc).
Easy Tweet Embed
Easy Tweet Embed is a WordPress plugin that allows you to easily add
embedding pre-populated tweets to your blog posts/pages which can lead
to more shares, more traffic, and more subscribers.
Just click the Easy Tweet Embed button in your Visual Editor, add the
anchor text you would like to display in your post/page and the tweet
that you would like to embed, then click “Embed Tweet”. Easy Tweet Embed
takes care of the rest!
Google Keyword Planner
Keyword Planner is a free AdWords tool for new or experienced
advertisers that’s like a workshop for building new Search
Network campaigns or expanding existing ones. You can search for keyword
and ad group ideas, see how a list of keywords might perform, and even
create a new keyword list by multiplying several lists of keywords
together.
As a publisher, you can use Keyword Planner to help you get
historical statistics such as search volume data for new keyword ideas,
or to get forecasts on keyword ideas so you can plan your content and
search traffic strategy accordingly.
Buffer
Buffer
shares your content at the best possible times throughout the day so
that your followers and fans see your updates more often. Get the most
out of each post.
As you add content, you can easily select which of your social
accounts you want to post to. Post the same message to all accounts or
add context by customizing each.
Whether you are browsing the web or on the go, you can easily add
content to your queue with our browser extensions and mobile apps. Save
time and get more done by working from anywhere.
WP Distraction-Free Editor
A great feature built into the WordPress interface that almost no one
uses, the distraction-free editing mode hides everything that can get
in the way of your writing, and helps you stay focused.
To switch it on, click the small screen button on the top left corner
of your WordPress WYSIWYG editor.When you first switch on When you
first switch on distraction-free editor, you’ll see a minimal toolbar, a
title, and your post’s (or page’s) content.
To push the distraction-free mode to the limit, Firefox and Chrome
have a Full Screen feature that makes the current page fill the entire
screen—this means that the title and the content of the post or page
you’re working on will be the only things you see.Auto-save means you
don’t even have to worry about saving–just write.
Auto-save means you don’t even have to worry about saving–just write.
Feedly
Feedly is a single place to organize, read, and share all the content that matters to you — and your team. Whether it’s the New York Times, Business Week,
industry journals or more—don’t miss a beat from any of the
publications you trust.Dive deeper by following blogs from the latest
movers, shakers, and thinkers.
Dive deeper by following blogs from the latest movers, shakers, and
thinkers. Follow anyone on the web. See new videos from the YouTube
channels you follow—in the same place, you read the rest of your news.
Monitor news about your company, your product, your craft, and your
competitors by plugging in Google Alerts. Crunch through more content in
less time by organizing your feeds into easy-to-read collections.
Click to Tweet
Clicktotweet is the best, easiest and simplest way to promote and advertise your blog, website, and business on Twitter.
Easily view and keep track of all links you’ve created in the past.
Create folders to better organize links by project or campaign. Access
to edit, view stats, and copy your links are all easily accessible. You
can use a text link or select an image to embed on your website.
View reports of click activity on all your links. Analytics are
tracked for all links you embed inside of your message/tweets, too!
Every time someone clicks one of your links, Clicktotweet records
where they clicked from and presents this data to you on a map.Increase
your followers by suggesting your (or anyone’s) Twitter account to Increase your followers by suggesting your Twitter account to be followed every time someone tweets from your ClickToTweet link.
Meme Generator
Memes are hot, they can make your content interesting and
refreshing—provided you don’t overdo it. MemeGenerator.net provides is a
free meme creation service that quickly and easily allows you to
customize the most popular memes and download them for use on your blog
or website.Manually creating memes can be quite a task as you have to go
looking for an image, elaborating it and adding text. MemeGenerator
takes all the hard work out of meme creation and makes the process fast
and fun.
Manually creating memes can be quite a task as you have to go looking
for an image, elaborating it and adding text. MemeGenerator takes all
the hard work out of meme creation and makes the process fast and fun.
Toggl
Toggl is the leading online time tracking tool, which is extremely
popular among freelancers, consultants, and small companies. It allows
users to track the time spent on various projects and analyze
productivity. It’s cloud-based and can be up and running from scratch in
less than a minute. You can use Toggl on the web, as a desktop widget
or on your mobile—all your data gets synced in real time.
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