Dropbox was never my favorite cloud storage service. In fact, I never even used it until 2013. My preferred cloud storage services were SkyDrive (now known as OneDrive) and Google Drive. I have always prefered everything Microsoft/Google as I didn't want to depend upon different companies for different products. My mistake!
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Back then, I relied a lot on Google --- Gmail (for email), Google Calendar (for calendar), Google Notebook (for note-taking), Google Tasks (for task management), Google Drive (for cloud storage), and Google Reader (for news reading).
And, one fine day, I realized that it's not a good idea to rely on only one brand for "all things".
How? Because Google discontinued Google Notebook and Google Reader (
R.I.P.). And Google Tasks too is on the verge of discontinuation as they are no longer updating that service. In fact, they discontinued a lot of nice
Google products.
Today, I don't care about how many brands I'm relying on. Instead, I just try to make sure that they offer the best product in their category. So, I replaced Google Calendar with Sunrise, Google Notebook with Evernote, Google Tasks with Todoist, Google Drive with Dropbox, and Google Reader with Feedly.
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All the above companies excel at what they are doing --- because it's their bread and butter. Today, I just wanted to share with you 11 reasons why I love
Dropbox.
As a student, a professional, a business person, or a freelancer --- you might want to remain productive all the time. And, as you probably know, there are a bunch of tools and apps on the web that can make you super-productive.
Of course, I've already published a handful of 101 listicles featuring productivity tools, marketing tools, social media tools, browser extensions, etc. but the problem is they are all huge lists.
And I obviously haven't tried all of them personally as my goal was to find and list the best of the best tools (in each category).
So today, I am sharing with you my favorite productivity tools and apparently they're the tools that I can't live without. And no, it doesn't include any social networks, or instant messengers, or messaging apps, or even any paid tools.
Just ten free productivity tools --- and it's for anyone and everyone. That's it!
And I'm calling it: "The Fantastic Ten".
