2017-06-12

Top 10 websites to increase your productivity

With such a humongous number of websites on the ever-growing internet, it becomes quite difficult to find something of our value. With drug dealers on the dark web to time snatching Facebook and Instagram, being productive on the internet has become a challenge by now.
But with these websites you will definitely increase your productivity and you will learn something new!

TED (ted.com)- 

Whether you’re on your computer or listening to a Podcast, TED opens your mind up to a new world. There’s a variety of people that explain any motivational subject you can think of that can help you rediscover life. With over a hundred videos to choose from, all TED talks provide you with a powerful message that can inspire you in ways you never knew before.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design and was founded in February 1984. It was started as a conference which is being held annually since 1990. It's videos have been open to the public for free viewing since June 2006, under the Creative Commons license. Over 2500 videos are available for free viewing on the TED website.
Also, they have TEDx, that is TED events held by independent organizations. They can be held by anyone after obtaining a consent from TED.

The TED talks lack any political or religious agenda and are just to spark debate and conversation among communities. Thus, you can expect non-bias talks.

Quora.com-

 It is a question answer website. A majority of your answers are given by people who actually know what they’re talking about. Famous and recognized people hold sessions. Some of them are - Hillary Clinton, Irrfan Khan etc.

The company Quora Inc. was founded in 2009 and the website was made public on 21st June, 2010.

The best part is that it is for the users, by the users and to the users. The users ask questions which are answered and upvoted by other users. Everyone can edit those answers and give suggestions, thus guaranteeing good answers. If the answer does not conform to the Quora community guidelines, that answer crashes until those guidelines are followed.

It also supports anonymity and maybe has the best privacy policies for anonymous users. Once going anonymous, even Quora cannot distinguish that user.


www.vocabulary.com – 

The quickest, most intelligent and fun way to improve your vocabulary.
They will test you and in this process increase your ability. You will learn synonyms and antonyms in a playful manner. It is a complete website to learn everything.

Vocabulary.com teaches you words by systematically exposing you to a wide array of question types and activities that will help you understand all the meanings and nuances of every word you’re learning. When you lookup for a word, you get the easiest meaning so that you remember it always.

They use interactive programs to learn about your learning patterns and then teach you suitably. From students to teachers, everyone loves this website and I am sure that you will too.


www.lumosity.com – 

A simple online tool to allow anyone to achieve their brain’s full potential. No matter what your age or background is, you can feel smarter, sharper, and brighter.
It has games which are built by experts to increase your mental ability. After a few days, you will start feeling smarter.

Lumosity contains games which are intended to improve your memory, attention and speed. It is created by Lumos labs, based in San Francisco. In a survey, it was found that the women who had breast cancer and were treated by chemotherapy who played these games showed improved cognitive skills.

This clearly shows the effectiveness of this training program. I am sure it will benefit you.


www.howtodothings.com OR www.wikihow.com/Main-Page – 

Learn how to do anything with step-by-step instructions. They tell you how to do things ranging from sewing buttons to building rockets (not literally though). There are simple articles to easy learning videos. 


The website wikihow was created to give the best how-to-do things with step-by-step process. It is Available in English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Czech, Japanese, Indonesian, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese and Hindi.

The best part is that the users generate content. Registered users can edit pages and add to-dos on their own. Now it consists of more than 180,000 pages.


Codeacademy.com - 

Coding has taken an important role in the world and even knowing the basics to HTML and Java could make a major difference in your life. With dozens of easy step-by-step tutorials on display, it’ll only take a matter of hours before you gain a better understanding of it. Just get started and you will learn CSS, HTML, C++ and much more in months. This will be very useful in your CV.


Codeacademy offers courses in 12 languages including Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS, React.js), Ruby, SQL, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS.

It has more than 25 million users having completed more than 100,000 exercises. The site received positive reviews from New York Times and TechCrunch. It won the Skillies Technology Award 2015.

Spreeder.com - 

If there was a super power that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet could have, it would be the ability to be the world’s fastest readers. But not too many people have the ability to read 1000 words a minute and actually retain that information.

The next best thing you can do is gradually improve your reading speed and comprehension. This website provides you with a software that increases your ability to read faster and actually remember it. The only thing you have to do is to copy a paragraph and then start reading.
It will help you to suppress the voice in your mind which comes up while you are reading something.

Your Spreeder access includes accounts for up to 5 users and no additional cost. Each user can install Spreeder on multiple computers and has their own individual profile in the cloud. With Spreeder, the whole family can enjoy the benefits of amazing reading skills together.


Ankisrs.net - 

With the use of flashcards, you can customize them into whatever you want whether it has text, video, audio, and images in them. Anki helps make things easier to remember whether you’re studying for future exams or personal reasons. Just get your information and add them to flashcards.

Anki in Japanese means memorization. And it surely mean it! With Anki, you can master a new language or practice for law and medical examinations. It is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup.

Anki has its app on the Google play store and Apple App store. The flash cards can be synchronized on all the platforms.

This will help you to retain information for ages (or maybe some days). Try it.


Investopedia.com - 

This website has the right resources and tutorials to help you understand money and how to use it correctly.You’ll find ways to have your money work for you and what’s going on in the stock market.

Investopedia drew about 2,500,000 monthly users and provided a popular financial dictionary with over 5,300 terms drawn from personal finance, banking and accounting. It also provided thousands of in-depth articles by financial experts

For anyone interested in business and the world of money, this is a great place to begin. If you’re looking for ways to invest, tutorials on basic accounting, or even simulators, this website can make you a mastermind of this field.
So get up and be a champion!

Stumbleupon.com -

 Besides having a blast at hitting that little yellow button that sends you another article, Stumbleupon is a discovery engine that sends you web pages that relates to your general interests.

Its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages, photos and videos that are personalized to their tastes and interests using peer-sourcing and social-networking principles. It has more than 10 million users as of now which react by giving a thumbs up or thumbs down.

 Enjoy cooking and recipes? Stumbleupon brings you popular articles in those categories that might suit your desire. And if you’re not into the website, simply hit the yellow button and be ready for a new website to come your direction.

Stumbpleupon has its browser toolbar for Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, safari and opera. The apps exist for all platforms.




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