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100+ Tools for an Easy Life.

Written by The DO TeamProductivity
Life is busy. There's no getting away from that. But there are ways to make our busy lives that little bit easier. We have put together a list of 100+ tools that do just that. We hope they help.

Productivity.

1. Cold Water Swim — Start your day with mental clarity

2. Rev — Convert audio and video to text

3. Naim Audio Headphones — Relax at home without distractions

4. Hunter — Find email addresses in seconds

5. Buffer — All-you-need social media toolkit for small businesses

6. Toggl — Tools to elevate productivity and eliminate stress

7. Vidyard — Online video platform making remote selling easy

8. Zenni Blokz® — Blue light glasses helping to protect your eyes all day

9. Cold Turkey — Block distractions or even the entire Internet

10. Take a break — Minimalistic Pomodoro based focus timer app

Writing.

11. Ghost — Powerful platform to publish and share business content

12. The Most Dangerous Writing App — If you stop writing all will be lost

13. Leuchtturm1917 Notebook — Writing by hand is thinking on paper

14. Evernote — Organise your life with this note-taking app

15. Montblanc Pen — The perfect writing instrument to make an impression

16. Noisli — Background sounds that mask annoying noises to keep you sane

17. Brain — Functional music to improve focus in 5 minutes

18. AnswerThePublic — Discover an untapped goldmine of content ideas

19. Cliché Finder — Find clichés in your writing so you can remove them

20. oTranscribe — Take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews

Research.

21. The Hackers News — Widely-read infosec source for cybersecurity news

22. AYTM: Ask Your Target Market — An online market research solution

23. Google Scholar — Simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature

24. Ubersuggest — Shows you how to win the game of SEO

25. AdEspresso — Find the right audience with split testing and optimisation

26. Exploding Topics — Discover rapidly growing topics before they take off

27. Audiense — Put consumer segmentation at the center of your strategy

28. Muck Rack — Easily search to monitor news and build reports

29. SparkToro — Don’t pay the tech giants just to have your voice heard

30. Attest — Growth without guesswork. Tap into your target consumers

Well-being.

31. Flo — Supporting each stage of the reproductive cycle

32. Bulb Planter — With the beauty and ergonomics of an old tool

33. Tsubota Pearl Queue Lighter — Light a candle and create ambiance

34. Therabody — Recover faster with this therapy device

35. Oura Ring — Measure your physiological signals

36. Muji Portable Diffuser — Keep things smelling rosy wherever you are

37. Equinox Kombucha — Healthy living cultures and organic acids

38. Deepak Chopra Sleep Meditation — End your week peacefully

39. Acupressure mat — A 1000 year old practice with a Swedish twist

40. mood — We track everything. But never how we feel

Design.

41. Coolors — Create the perfect colour palette or get inspired

42. Noun Project — Most diverse collection of icons and stock photos

43. Piktochart — The all-in-one visual storytelling solution

44. Canva — Simple design and communication tools for visual content

45. Gratisography — High-resolution photos free to use for your project

46. Glimpse — Craft beautiful movies without complicated editing software

47. Adobe — Discover the fun of creative editing and storytelling

48. Burst — Free stock photo site powered by Shopify

49. Blackwing Pencils — A perfect antidote for the busy digital life

50. Scannable — Capturing the paper in your life quickly and beautifully

Marketing.

51. Growsurf — Automating customer acquisition at the lowest possible cost

52. King sumo — Grow your email list through viral giveaways

53. Ahrefs — Everything you need to gain website traffic and rank higher

54. Marketing Examples — Real world marketing examples

55. Flipsnack — Transform your PDFs into an easy to read online flipbook

56. Just Reach Out — Brand tool to X10 your company like a pro

57. LinkedIn for Creators — Inspire conversations that matter

58. Quantum Marketing — Marketing mindset for tomorrow’s consumers

59. Copywriting Examples — Real world copywriting examples

60. Klaviyo — Data-driven email marketing automation platform

Organising.

61. Roam Research — A note taking tool for networked thought

62. Coschedule — Collaborate and schedule all your projects in one place

63. Workflowy — Trusty sidekick for an ambitious project or crazy job

64. Typeform — People friendly forms and surveys. Like a conversation

65. Google Calendar — The app helping you spend less time managing

66. Makers Pocket — Keep your important tools close to hand while you work

67. WeTransfer — Simplest way to send your files around the world

68. Post it notes — Helping you organise your day. Our most used tool at DO!

69. Slack — All-in-one communication tool for your team

70. Apple Reminders — Making it easier than ever to remember life’s to-dos

Sustainability.

71. Copper Water — Begin your day with the crisp taste of Tamra Jal

72. Patagonia repairs — Make your gear last longer in a few simple steps

73. Pantys — Start a new cycle that’s more comfortable and sustainable

74. SMOL — A better way to buy cleaning products

75. Vinted — Sell your clothes that have more to give

76. Cotopaxi — Innovative gear that funds sustainable poverty relief

77. Urbalive Composter — Worm composting solution for all

78. Cora Laundry Ball — Protect our oceans and your clothes

79. SKANDINAVISK — A fragrant blend inspired by the Nordic region

80. Who Give a Crap — Toilet paper that builds toilets

AI.

81. Google Cloud AI — Automate repetitive tasks to boost productivity

82. Crayon — Seize opportunities to create sustainable business advantages

83. Grammarly — Great writing simplified

84. Frase — Research and optimise SEO content in minutes

85. Jasper — The future of writing

86. Let’s Enhance — Increase image resolution without quality loss

87. Synthesia — A video production studio in your browser

88. Siri — Doing more than ever, even before you ask

89. fireflies.ai — AI assistant for your meetings

90. Rephrase — Say goodbye to film crews and expensive equipment

Community.

91. Giphy — The World’s largest library of free GIFs

92. Wordle — Viral word game delighting the internet

93. Be Real — Discover who your friends really are in their daily life

94. Mirror — Create and connect your world on web3

95. Be My Eyes — Visually assisting blind and visually impaired people

96. Babbel — Live online classes taught by world-class teachers

97. STEPN — Make your steps count. Check your earnings and share on social

98. Spill — All-in-one mental health support for employees

99. Goodreads — Meet your next favourite book

100. Find me a Milkman — At the heart of any community

101. Exhale — Medicine for the depths of our souls. Designed for BIWOC*

*Black, Indigenous, Women of Color

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The DO Team
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