Do You Want to Boost Productivity and Discipline? 5 Must-Have Tools
Leveraging Technology to Cultivate Discipline and Boost Productivity
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Last week I wrote about the challenge of remaining consistent in life. This week, I look at the technological innovations that can transform your life by building consistency and cultivating discipline. In a cluttered world filled with busyness, getting lost in a frenzy of social media trends, "chasing the bag," and the never-ending "adulting" challenge is easy. Luckily, you can be as productive as the best business strategists if you embrace the same tools and habits used by highly successful people.
The fast-paced world necessitates speedier delivery of everyday tasks if you are to enjoy free time or attend to your hobbies. In business, as is in personal life, the fastest worker or entrepreneur may not always be the winner, but they will always have more time to meet their goals, which is a strong determinant of success. Being productive is critical, and here are five crucial tools to incorporate into your personal life for work, school, and business success.
Diarium – Capture and Relish Moments.
Diarizing is an essential task for recording your day's ups and downs, daily habits like schoolwork, diet, exercise, or work, and reflecting on events that occurred on a specific past date and location. Diarium is a powerful, neat, cloud-based journal app that can help you stay organized and focused. With Diarium, you can record your day's memories in text format, photos, videos, or audio. Moreover, you can add location in your journal entry to enrich your memories. Notably, Diarium is available on all Android, iOS, MacOS, or Windows platforms. Your data is stored in the cloud of your choice, including OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, and Dropbox, and can be synced across all the platforms.
As a student, you can use Diarium to capture and store the highs and lows of college life and relish them years later when you graduate. Moreover, recording the day's events cultivates discipline and consistency in life, giving you a competitive edge out there.
The beauty of cloud-based journals like Diarium is that you can access your memories anywhere and many years later, unlike a hard copy journal that can easily get misplaced, accessed by anyone, and suffers wear and tear with time. Indeed, everyone can benefit from cloud-based journals to record the past and share it with posterity.
Clockify – Learn to Number Your Days.
Do you care how much time you spend on a given activity, say completing an assignment, reading a book, practicing a hobby, or simply doing your job? It's time you started doing so, thanks to the help of Clockify. Clockify is a time tracker tool for individuals and teams. The intelligent time management tool will help you track your productivity and give you reports that are easy to digest. With Clockify, you can see how many hours you put into an activity, your week's productivity, and ultimately your performance in a month or a year.
In the modern freelancing world, you would benefit significantly from Clockify if you tracked the time spent working on a task that requires billing. In addition to boosting your productivity, Clockify will help you track billable time to issue invoices to your clients and see how much you have earned. You can also know how efficient you are in your day and determine what to streamline to achieve optimal productivity, whether at school, work, or home.
The Clockify app is available on PC and mobile to help you have access to the tool all the time. Tracking your time will help you become productive and instill discipline in your life. Remember that time lost can never be recovered. Therefore, learn to number your days.
Taskito – Organize Your Tasks According to Priority
There is no point in doing dishes when that is the least of your priorities; just because you have time does not mean you should be doing the job. Instead, consider Taskito as your best new to-do list tool. Not only will it tell you what to do next, but Taskito is pretty simple when adding the tasks for the day and rearranging them to see what can or would not work across the board. For instance, if you add a new task and make it a higher priority, the previous tasks occupying that scheduled time will be set aside. In the end, you spend much of the time doing important things. After getting the essential bits out over time, you become less stressed and tasks become more enjoyable.
As a student, you will plan your day, week, or even the entire semester seamlessly with the Taskito to-do list app, which doubles as a task management tool. Once you create your project, you can list one-time tasks or set repeating tasks with your preferred time, reminder, and priority level. Taskito intuitively organizes the tasks based on their priority and sends you reminders on your phone or smartwatch.
Taskito can help you visualize your time in a day or a week via a statistics dashboard presented in a graphical format. The timeline format of recording tasks enables you to keep track of the most urgent tasks and those with the least importance in your day. What's more, you can see overdue tasks and act on them by rescheduling them or marking them canceled.
Stay organized, and maximize your school, work, and personal life output by planning with Taskito. You will set yourself above the rest by practicing simple habits like the daily entry of to-do list tasks and marking them as done, rescheduling, or converting them into notes on Taskito.
Wallet – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.
Money. Where does your money go? You receive your pocket money, paycheck, or a windfall from an investment, but the big numbers are depleted in no time. If you want to budget, control expenses, or plan for recurring payments, then consider BudgetBakers's Wallet. This intelligent, ai-based app helps you set recurring or one-time budgets, track your transactions automatically, and remind you about upcoming payments.
Wallet by BudgetBakers is not about restricting you from enjoying your hard-earned money. Instead, the tool is designed to help you become a better custodian of your finances. Cashflow projects will help you avoid spending more than you make. You can easily visualize your balance, financial outlook, and expenses in graphical formats on Wallet. You can even forecast your spending and the income you need to cover you in the next, say, one week, month, or year. The tool also categorizes your spending into Must, Need, and Want so that you can know what you must pay, what you need to pay, and what you can avoid spending on.
Moreover, you can sync your bank to track your finances and quickly ease the data entry process. If you have a shared budget or wish to share your financial outlook with a partner or a group of people, Wallet will do that through a group-sharing feature. Use the daily reminders to enter your income and expenses on Wallet and build a disciplined financial life.
Take time build accountability around your personal finances with Wallet. It's time to put your money where your mouth is.
Any.do – Achieve More with Your Team
A to-do list app, a project management tool, a daily planner, and a collaborative tool; that's what Any.do is. Any.do has a beautiful interface that helps you to customize workflows, assign tasks and manage daily tasks intuitively. As a to-do list app, Any.will remind you of tasks due on via mobile notifications through WhatsApp message notifications. You can write down your shopping list and get reminders to buy everything on your shopping list. The app is available on mobile and PC too.
The usefulness of Any.do as a task manager comes from its multi-platform design, allowing seamless integration and ensuring everything is within reach for scheduling, working on tasks, and tracking progress. A student who monitors their daily activities will likely finish tasks ahead of time and find coursework to be lighter than a procrastinator. Any.do is suitable for someonewho needs more awareness of the tasks they accomplished and duties to complete in a week or a month. Any.do is also a collaborative tool, which makes it handy for group projects and team assignments. Everyone can see where anyone else is on a task, making collaboration much more effortless.
Unlock your potential and maximize your team’s productivity using Any.do. Also, stay organized, focused, and complete tasks on time by monitoring and assigning tasks and activities on Any.do app.
Set Yourself Apart for Greatness
Being armed with all five tools or any of them puts the power back to you as a student, worker, or both. The above tools are time savers and help you maximize your productivity, manage your finances, and keep track of your life. Achieving balance in life, such as work-study or work-life balance, can be much easier and more fun, thanks to these tools' unprecedented help. Diarium, Clockify, Taskito, Wallet, and Any.do are all easy-to-get apps that can unlock your productivity and instill discipline in your life. Their technology is not obstructive, making the tools ideal for anyone who would want to make their lives easier and fun rather than rigid and cramped. These tools may also answer our question of happiness, as explored a week ago.
Do you leverage technology to streamline your life? Which traditional or modern tools do you use to manage your time, work, finances, or other daily habits? Please share in the comments section below and help someone else tap into the world of productivity and discipline.