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.
