Our lives increasingly take place online. As they do so, there is a wide range of digital tools that can significantly make our lives easier in some way, shape or form. These digital tools aren’t all of life-changing significance, but they do make everyday life just a little simpler, easier or more enjoyable.
If you’re anything like us, you’re finding that a lot of your life is taking place online. From the entertainment you’re watching to the work you do and the way you socialize with your friends, you’re plugged in for a good portion of almost every day. With so much time spent online, why not take advantage of a few digital tools that are certain to make the time you are spending online just that little bit nicer, easier or simpler?
These tools are all about making things convenient, saving you time, reducing your everyday stress, and just making your life a little bit better. From using digital password managers to a YouTube ad blocker, there is a whole host of different tools that don’t need a whole lot of input from you, and will make your life just a little sweeter every day.
Let’s take a closer look at some of these tools and why we think you should use them.
Password Managers Help You Stay Secure
Just about every digital service now wants you to create an account, set up a password and log in every time you want to use it. Remembering 100s of passwords is something that no normal human can do, especially if you are following cybersecurity advice and creating passwords every time that are unique and full of special characters and numbers. Sure, you could write down your passwords in a book or something and keep it handy, but why bother, a password manager can do it for you!
These tools fill in all the necessary credentials for you whenever you go to log in to a website you’ve logged into and saved the details of before. Many browsers have rudimentary versions of these already installed, but getting a dedicated password manager will provide you with just a little bit of extra security and convenience.
The more different accounts you need for streaming, gaming, shopping, working and socializing, the more attractive a service that managers all of those passwords in one place becomes, trust us.
Watching YouTube Without Ad Blockers is Lunacy
YouTube is awesome, billions of hours of content, right there for anyone to watch for free. But it is absolutely choked with ads. Luckily for us, YouTube ad blockers exist. The more aggressive video advertising gets, the more attractive these ad blockers become. What’s that? An un-skippable 3 minute ad? No thanks YouTube, I’d rather install an ad blocker.
YouTube ad blockers make it so that the content you stream while watching videos is entirely uninterrupted by ads. Sure, some content creators might miss out on a little bit of ad revenue, but let’s be real, YouTube makes the real money from that. If you really love your content creators, you can find other, much more convenient, ways to support them.
There are plenty of different sorts of videos that benefit strongly from not being interrupted. Gaming streams, cooking or DIY tutorials, podcasts and any other sort of long-form entertainment is much better if it is allowed to flow naturally.
Access Files Everywhere Through Cloud Storage
This might be a little bit more niche, but cloud storage can be really useful. If you work hybrid, being able to have a single document stored on the cloud that is easily accessible from both your work and home computer is just so great. Having cloud storage for your documents also means that it doesn’t matter if your computer takes a lightning bolt to the motherboard, all of your precious data isn’t lost forever, you can just access it from any other computer.
The only limitation to cloud storage is what you want or care about storing on it. As long as you have something you want to store digitally, there really is no more convenient way to store it than on the cloud.
Digital Navigation Tools
Okay, this one might be cheating a little bit, because you do need to use them in addition to doing something in the physical world, but navigation apps and tools are awesome. Before navigation tools like Google Maps that use GPS, you needed to have a physical map with you, or to have memorized the way to wherever you were going. Can you even imagine how inconvenient this was?
Modern GPS navigation tools provide you with all sorts of bells and whistles like estimated arrival times, updates on traffic, suggested ways to optimize the route and all sorts of other incredibly convenient things.
We know they are cheating a little bit on a list of tools to improve your life digitally, but we just love GPS navigation tools so much, we had to include them
Final Thoughts
Just about anything you do online, and a whole lot of things you do in the physical world, can be improved with a couple of little digital tools. We only had time to mention four different sorts of tools, but whatever you are up to, have a look and you’re likely to find that there’s a digital tool that can make it more convenient for you in some way.
