Your browser is open all day. The right extensions can turn it from a distraction machine into your most productive tool.
These 10 are worth installing today.
For Focus
1. Freedom Blocks distracting sites on a schedule. Set it once, stop the doom-scrolling automatically.
2. StayFocusd Free alternative to Freedom. Limits time on specified sites each day.
For Research
3. Perplexity AI Right-click any selected text and get an AI-powered explanation or summary instantly.
4. Liner Highlight and annotate web pages. AI summarizes your highlights across all your saved articles.
5. Readwise Reader Save articles, highlights, and PDFs in one place. AI surfaces the most important ideas.
For Writing
6. Compose AI Autocomplete for Gmail and any text field. Learns your writing style over time.
7. Grammarly The essential writing assistant. Works everywhere you type online.
For Productivity
8. Vimium Navigate your entire browser with keyboard shortcuts. Eliminates most mouse usage.
9. Toby Replaces your new tab with a visual workspace for organizing tabs into projects.
10. Clockify Time tracking that lives in your browser. One click to start a timer on any task.
The High-Impact Combination
If you only install three: Grammarly (you write better immediately), Perplexity (you research faster), and Freedom (you stop wasting time). That combination alone saves most people two to three hours per week from day one.
