Our Top 3 Free Online Tools that will Increase Your Productivity

How much time do you spend trying to remember your passwords? Email back and forth to schedule a meeting? All of these things that come with running a business require time, making you less productive if you have to put more energy into each task.

At Locallogy, we use a variety of tools and apps that make some of these tasks easier. Rather than spending 15 minutes trying to guess our company password for Google, getting locked out and then having to call Google to gain access to the account, we have a tool that remembers that password for us. It saves us time that we can then use to be more productive and stay on track.

We’re sharing some of our most-used tools with you because we think everyone should have the ability to work efficiently. Plus, each of the tools we’re covering has a free version you can use if you’re looking to stay productive and on budget. None of these apps are our partners; we just really like using them.

Here are some of our favorite tools—all of which offer a free version—that help keep us productive.

Hate remembering all your passwords? Can’t remember which ones require a capital letter, number and special character? We felt the same way. That is, until we discovered LastPass.

This is a tool everyone in our office uses every single day, both in our professional and personal lives. LastPass is an extension you download and add to your browser’s dashboard. When you type in a username and password for a website, LastPass asks you if you want to save it to your account, and it remembers all your information in a secure place, automatically generating your account info next time you go to that website.

This saves us time—and sanity—on a daily basis, all while keeping your personal information safe (you have to log into LastPass before accessing all your stored info). It also generates secure passwords and allows you to share specified accounts with others who need access. You can save everything from important bank accounts to that fake email account you created just to get another free trial of Hulu.

As long as you can remember your LastPass password, you don’t need to remember any others.

As Calendly puts it on its website, it “helps you schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails.”

Calendlyis a great tool you can use when you’re trying to coordinate schedules to have a meeting. You simply tell Calendly what days and times you’re available for a meeting and send the link to those you’re setting up a meeting with, and they choose the date/time that works best for them. Once someone claims a time, that spot is automatically blocked off in your calendar, meaning you can’t be double-booked.

If you regularly have meetings throughout the week, this is an easy tool to help keep you organized and find a meeting time that works best for everyone.

Speaking of meetings, once you set one up (with or without Calendly), you can virtually meet with clients and coworkers through UberConference. It’s great for conference calls when a bunch of people are all talking, because the app identifies who is speaking and shows their name and/or face, depending on if you’re using video or just voice calling.

As the meeting coordinator, all you have to do is establish a meeting time in the app and send an invite to everyone you want to join in. They simply click on the link at the time of the meeting and choose if they want to participate via phone or computer. If you think you’ll forget about the meeting or won’t be near a computer, you can just tell UberConference to call you or your guests and join the call automatically.

No matter where you are or how you need to connect, UberConference makes conference calls easy. Plus, they have pretty great hold music to keep you entertained.

There are thousands of apps out there that help you achieve productivity at work, and these three are just some of the ones we use on a daily basis. We’ve found that by utilizing these and other tools, we can work smarter, not harder.