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Working From Home: Easy To Follow Guidance and Tips

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:00

    • 2.

      The Importance Of Good Sleep

      4:27

    • 3.

      Structuring Your Day

      5:41

    • 4.

      Taking Breaks (+ the Pomodoro technique!)

      7:00

    • 5.

      Organising Your Physical Space

      5:31

    • 6.

      Organising Your Online Space

      5:52

    • 7.

      Utilising Browser Extensions

      8:28

    • 8.

      Class Project

      1:12

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About This Class

Currently, a lot more people are working from home but are finding it hard to stay productive and motivated.

This class is for beginners at working from home and how to make each day worth it.

In this class we will cover:

  • The importance of quality sleep
  • How and why you should structure your day
  • Taking breaks - when to take them and for how long (in this lesson we cover the Pomodoro technique!)
  • How to organize your physical space (workspace, desk, filing)
  • How to organize your physical space (online backups and folders)
  • Utilizing chrome extensions to boost productivity
  • How to stay motivated and keep a positive mindset whilst working from home

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All the information included is backed by science. The sites I used to research are:

As a full-time student, I have been working from home for almost a year now so have picked up some really useful tips! I hope that this class will be beneficial to anyone new who is starting to work from home.

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Lucy Morgan

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Hello, I'm Lucy and I'm a full-time student!

I love all things creative from embroidery to graphic design! I hope that I can inspire people to be more creative through my skillshare classes.

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1. Introduction: Hello everyone and welcome to my newest class, which is working from home. And so I'm sure you all know about the current situation has forced a lot of people to work from home who've never worked from home before. And I was a full-time student. I worked from home quite frequently. So I have picked up a couple of tips throughout my years of being a student in this class is aimed at begin is working from home. And it's gonna be really easy to follow just a little bit of guidance and a few tips if you're just starting out working from home. And here's a list of what we're going to learn in this class. So we're going to learn how to organize. And I'm talking physical and online spaces. So we're thinking a desk, your workspace, and then your files online. How to organize the more we're going to be going into using cloud storage as well to back up your files. And the second bullet point, how to effectively utilize online tools, and that is all about browser extensions. So I've got a whole lesson on Chrome browser extensions, how to install them, on which ones I recommend. And then how to structure your day. Say, we've got a couple of bits on different ways to structure your day, how you should be structuring your day. And the last bullet point says Why structure so important? And we're going to be talking about why everything that I'm going to talk about as important. So another thing I'll be covering is, again, enough sleep is so, so important to the work in day. And so, yeah, that is all for me on the introduction. I really hope you enjoy this class. And if you did, please give it a positive review and make sure you read the description because a lot of resources in that I think you'll find really helpful. Thank you. 2. The Importance Of Good Sleep: Hi everyone and welcome back. So the first lesson that we've gotten to work from home series is the importance of getting good sleep. So throughout this lesson, we're going to discuss why getting good sleep is important and how a good nicely you can improve productivity and workflow. So let's just get straight into it. So here if he benefits of getting good sleep. So the first one is about mental health and NACA and good see it can really improve and maintain your mental health by putting you in a good headspace for the following day. And it can also strengthen your immune system and improve brain functions such as concentration and productivity and birth concentration and productivity really, really useful for the working day. Again, as much as you possibly can in the shortest amount of time. Keeping energy levels up as well. It's another thing that comes from good sleep and this again will increase your concentration. Also the attention that you've got each task during the day. And getting good sleep also has a lot of health benefits. So it can prevent a lot of heart related issues such as hypertension or high blood pressure and a hot seas. And again, it can reduce stress levels. So the sentences that are highlighted in pink are the ones that are directly related to working from home. But again, all of them are beneficial. So dang good see definitely is extremely important. But you may be wondering, well, what actually is good sleep? Is it that typically six to nine hours that you're told so often sleepin in complete darkness, going to bed early. Well, quality comes before quantity when it comes to sleep. So you really want to focus on your quality of sleep rather than the quantity. And as I've said here, nine hours sleep, it sounds great. But if it's poor disrupted sleep, it actually can't be worse than six hours of really good quality sleep. And getting good quality sleep is the key to stay productive and whilst work from home. So let's talk about how to increase your quality of sleep. So I've got three loads hips here, really easy to follow. Just quick change that you can make in your life to increase their quality of sleep. So this says one is keeping your sleep schedule consistent and your night routine. So this Cook Bei Di shower at night or morning duty, skin cat night, anything like that. And you nice keep consistent. Um, I do talk about structuring your day in a later lesson. So the reasons will become more clear after that one. Another one, avoid alcohol, caffeine, or using technology a few hours before baths. And I'm sure a lot of you have heard about this in the media recently. And technology can be detrimental to your sleep because of the play tricks your body into thinking it's daytime. So you really want to switch your fair enough, at least an hour before bad and to get the best sleep possible. And again, external factors such as light or temperature. So everyone is different. Books, the optimal sleeping conditions are in complete darkness. And with this slightly cooler temperatures while is2. So how exactly the sleep relate to working from home? Well, as I mentioned before, a goodnight sleep can greatly increase your productivity on workflow throughout the day. Another few things here, it will help you feel refreshed and ready to go. Which way coat ill motivate you be ready start the day. And it can also help combat work-related problems such as getting distracted and burnout. Then I was a huge problem, especially with students. And I have experienced it myself. But I have no estab since I've been gamba sleep, it has drastically improved. And as well as this cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making of really going to improve from better sleep. For me on sleeping. In the next lesson, we're gonna talk about stroke chair, as I mentioned before, with your sleeping schedule keeping at the same time every day. And so we're going to be talking about why structures beneficial to your day and how to effectively shut to your date. Cva. Say thank you for watching this lesson. I really hope you enjoyed and I hit see you in the next one. 3. Structuring Your Day: Hi everyone and welcome back. Say this lesson is going to be all about stretching a day while you're working from home. So in this lesson, we will discuss why an established church has beneficial and how to effectively structure your data. Cu See, you may be thinking, why should I share I'm home, I can do whatever I warm. Well, in a normal world, most of us would be attending school always Daily are designated location, whether that be an office or school. And are they would well, on the most part, have a clear start and end time, which we get 0s to over the years. And it's really important to mimic this in some way at home. Daily short chicken, how you feel more focus as you know exactly what you have to do and how long you have to do it, which is the exact experienced you'd have if you're at work or school. It can also help manage your stress levels by scheduling, impose an activity such as exercise and other activities that you enjoy. And so this could be socializing with your friends, listening to music or anything like that, really important for your well-being. It needs make sure scheduled into your day because it's really easy when you're working from homes, get caught with all your work. And also allows you to gain a sense of control over your day. You know what you're doing, you're in control of what you're doing. And this can really, really improve your mindset going into the day. So we're gonna go on to how to structure your day. And so there's a couple of basic things that you need to start by establishing times four. You want to try and keep these core things the same every day. So that is what time you wake up and what time you go to bed, the times that you're going to eat, and the time that you're going to start with and and your free time. So you want to get this into your schedule first, that's the first thing you wanna do. And once this is done, you can start up more detail. So I've got a little example here. And as you can see, I've been planning by the hour on this schedule, but you can plan on intervals based on how you work. If he were better in smaller chunks, you may wanna plan by the half-hour or even quarter of an hour is completely up to you and how you work. So as you can see, I've scheduled in those core things and I've highlighted the free time blue that so I know that I nice finish work at 05:00 PM and free time is so important as I mentioned before. So that is definitely something you need to allocate quite a lot of time for. So now Eve establish a basic structure. You'd need to look in detail. And obviously everyday is going to be different. So you want to establish thing he'd lights get done during the day. This could be anything from making progress on a project or assignment to allocate and some admin time. And remember to factor in scheduled events such as meetings or lectures as you don't want to be missing those and you want it all in one place on this one schedule. I would recommend you plan things the night before to minimize your stress in the morning. But obviously you could do this them on and off depending on what time you wake up. And say. If you wake up and your plans all done a really boost your mindset during the day and that will increase your productivity. So here's my more detail structure is couple of things I'd like to talk about, which are indicated by the arrows there. But as you can see, I've pretty much photo at my schedule with the things I like to do that day. So the first thing is writing down key times. As you can see, I've done that twice on the schedule. So things that you need to attend. And also leave some free time to your Rollins do list. I will talk about next and then deadlines. So I say I need to finish an assignment and submitted the deadline being the 17th. And again, these things they really are important to include so that all in one place. And of course, remembers tape breaks at regular intervals throughout the day. More on this, in the next lesson, there's whole lesson when you should be taking breaks and house take breaks. And like I mentioned before, the rolling to-do list. So what is a role? Steel lists while is a list and you can leave time for any non-Asian or continuous tasks which can be completed whenever, whenever you have a little time. So in a future lesson, I'll talk about the digital tools that are good for doing this. I've got a little example the bottom that. So as you can see, you need to come up with some sort of organization system. Feel less. Well, what I've done is there's little circles next to each of the points that I once got done. And the blank circles are things haven't started to jack the crust circles. So the one with the strikethrough it, they're the ones I've started and then the colored in circles or things are finished. You want to make this really clear so you know exactly what you have to do. Since the end of this lesson. And in the next lesson, we're going to discuss breaks. So why take regular breaks throughout the day is important when tape breaks to increase productivity. And I'm also going to be going into a little bit of detail about the Pomodoro Technique for work and studying. So that is all in the next lesson. Thank you so much, everyone for watching. And I really hope you're enjoying this class so far and I hope that it has been some help to you. So I will see you in the next one. 4. Taking Breaks (+ the Pomodoro technique!): Hello everyone and welcome back to this class on working from home. So this lesson is going to be all about break silicon and discuss why taking regular breaks throughout the day is important. Once tape breaks you increase productivity. And I'm also going to be telling you about something called the Pomodoro Technique for work and study. So why is taken break so important? There's a couple of reasons here. So the first one, Bn, it can help you consolidate your period of working, which leads to better retention of information. It also increases productivity because the timeframe in which to complete a specific task is reduced. So this encourages you to work faster so you can complete a task within the time. And it also restores your motivation and reduces the chance of becoming bend out, like I mentioned before, with sleep, any sort of break is crucial to reducing burnout. So when should you be taking your brakes? So I'm gonna talk about two methods that you can try. So the first one's little and often, unlike I mentioned, I'll be going over the Pomodoro technique. And the second is the traditional mourn and lunch and afternoon breaks that you may have been getting while you were working from home? I know I definitely was when I was at school. So the first one I'm going to talk about is the little and often method. So you should use this technique if he got distracted easily, have lots of ongoing work such as research or if you're studying for something, or if he find it difficult to stay motivated and productive for long periods of time. So a little bit on the Pomodoro technique is a technique for time management which was developed in the late 19 eighties. So what it does is it easy to time, it's a breakdown your work into manageable chunks. And I've put a link to a pomodoro timer in the resources section of the class description. So you can have a look at that if you have no other means of timing yourself and carry out. So before it starts in the time that you need to write down what things you'd like to achieve in the 25 minutes and one 25-minute chunk is known as worn at Pomodoro where say, obviously you're going to work on these task for the 25-minute season, the pomodoro timer, you can use your own or there's one in the class description like I mentioned. And then you're gonna take a five-minute break. Now I know this seems like a short break, but if you think about it, a five-minute break for every 25 minutes, it does mount up to a lot. So it's not going to give you any less break time than you'd get with the traditional method. And then after four pomodoros, you're going to be taken a longer break. So 50 minutes is a typical amount for this method. But you can adjust this year schedule. And you're gonna wanna repeat this until you've finished what you wanna do that day. And remember, I would always recommend taking a little bit of a long break FOR lunch time. And that is a break away from your workspace to, uh, have some lunch. And the second method is the traditional morning, lunch and afternoon break method. So you should use this technique if he professed guest often in a large chunk without stopping. So that's if you can stay focused for longer periods of time. So I'm talking about a few hours here. If you're really good at concentrating for a long time and there's not much that can break your concentration at home. This is a really, really good method for you. So you should be taking a shorter break in the morning. I'm mid afternoon and a longer break our lunchtime. And what sometimes helps for maintaining a little bit of normalcy at home is if he already had scheduled breaks at work. It's a really good idea is try and stick to these. So more than break. So I've done a little bit of research and studies actually showed an early morning break is crucial to concentration, motivation, and general happiness at work. So you should aim take this break from ones three hours after you start work. So let's say you start work at nine o'clock. And I would recommend taken a break probably ten or 11 o'clock. I mean, it can't even be 12, but do you want to be taking your lunch close then? Again, it all depends on your schedule and how your day usually works. So this break should be anywhere between 50 minutes to an hour. And then your lunch break. Regular lunch breaks each day can help avoid a diff and productivity during the afternoon. You really meets every few yourself during the DJ is so, so important. And they say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But honestly, if you're working full time, lunch definitely takes the cake width that is so, so important to rest and recharge during the day. So this should be taken around one to three hours after your morning break. So let's say you did take that morning break at ten o'clock starting at nine, then you're going to want to do once, three hours after. So I'd say probably around 12 o'clock, few break bull depends what time you start really an idea. Lunch break is 30 minutes to two hours. And dependent on your schedule. Again, everyone has different astronauts, a different schedule. And it's so, so important as I mentioned before it to get away from your work and turn this time to try if you can turbulent in a different room to while you're working. It really just helps ease hits attach from the test that you're doing. The afternoon break is basically the same as the morning break. Just close the end of the day. And it's so, so important to have this because it can avoid the sort of late afternoon slump. Allah, people have debit tired. You really want to boost yourself to push you to the end of that day. So that is the end of this lesson on breaks. So in the next lesson, we're going to be discussing how to organize an effective workspace for maximum productivity. And why organization is good for your mindset and how tidy space can help you stay focused. So I want to thank everyone who he's got this far. I really hit this is helping and good luck in your online work. 5. Organising Your Physical Space: Hello everyone and welcome back. Say this lesson is on organizing your physical space. So in this lesson, we're going to discuss how to organize an effective workspace for maximum productivity. And why organization is good for your mindset and how a tidy space can help me stay focused. So why is it good workspace important? And when I say workspace, I'm talking about the place, easy oil work. You want to try and keep this in one space so that when you're doing other things from the day you can detach from your work. So I cuckoo space is important because it saves time looking for things that should be to hand over Essay. It encourages a working mindset. If you designate a spot in your house, took working, you know, once you're there but you're at work and you're working. And there's also less destructions. If he keep a tidy desk, you're not going to have things charging you throughout the day, which is so important. Examples here of some bad workspaces. So this is your bags or sofa, or anywhere that you spend time relaxing is no good workspace because the associations with these spaces is relaxation. So it's not going to help you be productive at all because you're just gonna thinking all. It's so easy to just lie down and have a sleep here. Note that is not what you want to be there. So here are some cope with spaces. So a desk, if you have one, or even a kitchen table, some sort of clean up flat surface that you can have everything but you need to hand. I'm very organized. So let's take a look at this workspace. Now. Is this a good workspace? And you may be thinking, he's our desk, he's glad forth into hand books. Look at the mass. You do not want your workspace to be looking at anything like this is so messy. I, you're never gonna find anything in there. So I'm going to be talking through a couple of steps that are going to help you organize your workspace and choose an effective workspace. So step one is working out which resources you need during the day. So you're going to want to make a list or some sort of mental note of all the things you use one workings. This could be a compete or laptop, stationary, or even physical files like a ring binder or you could have a filing cabinet. And it's been like that you need to make a list of the things you use throughout the day. And step two is Alice casing places on your workspace for all of these resources that you write down area and stick to it. This is so important. You need to stick to some sort of place for everything. And you're going to get used to it. And as you continue to work from home, you're gonna know where everything goes. And it really helps when you're tidying because you can put everything in its allocated location. So things you're going to want to keep in mind while doing this is making sure that you have easy access all the things you need and prioritizing. So you may want to put little stars on your list based on the things that you use most. And these things should be the crazy dusty. So there's a couple of things that I've put that which our organization twos are can help here. So I've got a stationary pot for stationary if he did have one on your desk or Friday, it's so useful. You can took oily stationary in that and it looks really nice and organized. And also this little thing called a magazine file can help you organize papers, Citi's campaign, papers that you've done or just blank paper like in the picture. And then I put the laptop there because later I am going to be talking about a few ways to organize your digital space. So there's a couple of tools that are on your laptop that can really help you organize. And step three, possibly the most important step is to reset your workspace daily. So why do you this, why tidy up at the end of every day and start each day as if you hadn't been there the day before. Well, it can be refreshing to start your day off with a clean slate. So like I mentioned, it can be then the table also, if you go to LA at the start of the day, tidy your workspace, make sure everything's away apart from obviously the things that you're going to need that day. And it's not really good for your mindset, but it can also maintain data clusters. If you have a cookie, live, papers or sticky notes mounting up somewhere, you can get rid of those, saw the file them, organize them, make sure everything's away. And it also prevents you wasting time on organization throughout the day which can interrupt your workflow. Well, a lot of people think is, oh, I'm organizing my desk, IBM productive. Well, that should already be done. And you're just wasting time. So try not to do that. So that's the end of the lesson or organizing your physical space. In the next lesson, we're gonna be going more into detail about your digital space and organizing an online workplace for digital work. So I'm also gonna talk about cloud storage in storing a backing up your work, talking about cubelets, different types, and how to use it. So thank you everyone for watching this lesson and I'll see you in the next one. 6. Organising Your Online Space: Hello everyone and welcome back. So this lesson is gonna be all about organizing your digital space. So like I mentioned in this lesson, we will discuss how to organize an online workspace for digital work and how to utilize Cloud Storage in storing and backing up your work. So well. Digital organization, so important. So if you worked predominantly from a competing is so easy for files and projects and mount up and it can be really difficult to find things. So if you have a look at the picture on the right, you can see a very unorganized online workspace. And as soon as this becomes a 100 or more items, you're never gonna find any thin enough. So if you look at the picture at the bottom, I haven't files in photos or subfolders can really help save time is finding things is going to be so, so much easier. This reduces frustration during the day, increased productivity and boost your motivations. Carry on. Set cloud storage or is it well, Cloud Storage, put simply, is a way of storing your data on the internet. And it can be retrieved from any M-Pesa, which sounds very appealing, I'm sure, and is protected by a password. So this is a great tool for working from home as it's so easy to transfer files from a work competed for the clouds to be retrieved from home. So if you have a computer that you worked from out work or you might want to do is set up some cloud storage and transfer all your files so you can easily access them from your home computer. As a lot of people are able to go into quick and the minimum. It's also a great way to backup your files in cases of problem with your compressor which erases your files. And it does happen more than you think. So do you always have a backup of everything that you do unless you want to lose it on who wants to lose that work? Say his if he popular cloud storage sites, say we've got Dropbox, OneDrive, which is by Microsoft, Google Drive, by Google obviously on iCloud Drive, which is the Apple Cloud storage site. So these the ones I recommend for beginners, and you want to probably start with what you already have an account for. So if you've got an Apple product and you've got an iCloud account. And start with iCloud drive. If you've got a Gmail Google account, then go with Google Drive. If you've got a Microsoft account or use Office 365 at work, you're gonna go with one Jive. And if you didn't have any of those, I will probably go to Dropbox because it's one of the easiest sign-up to say, hey, here's the OneDrive ease interface. As you can see on the screen. Say, there's a couple of things taken here. Probably. One of the most important ones is section where it says drag files here. So if you open up File Explorer on Windows or finder on a Mac, you can easily direct your files straight into OneDrive app and it will lead for a little bit before appearing in the photo. And if he click the New button, which is highlighted in blue there, there's a couple of options for adding a new file in. But the one I want to be talking about today is the folder, As this is so important for organization. So here I've created a few photos by clicking on the new photo button. And there's a couple of ways you can organize this. So I've got a few examples on the screen. So you can always organize it by dates, topic, or even a combination of the two. So photos are really important for further organization. So let's say we've created a folder for January and we want to have January finance January shares worth January projects. This is all possible with subfolders. So again, clicking the ADNI bassoon and the photos app will allow you to create some folders. And if you want to drag all unfolds into another, do just that. Click your mouse over the name of the folder and truck into the folder you want to check into. Really, really easy. Again, I say is so, so simple. Onedrive is also really, really good for working with. So if your whole organization uses Office 365, and this is more for those people, but anyone who has a Microsoft account will be able to use this functionality of OneDrive. Samy is sharing at nesting files together. On Google Drive also has a very similar function to this. So if you click this three dots next to the file that you want to work together on and click Copy. This screen will come up. And as you can see at the bottom it says anyone with the link can't as it now, you can manage this section by only allowing certain people to Azure. But for now, let's just go with anyone with the link can as it, so if the link is already copied, so if he paste that into an email to someone, they'll be able to work on that document with you and it makes great work so much easier online. So that's the end of that lesson. And in the next lesson, we're gonna discuss the different browser extensions which can maximize your productivity, has to install a browser extension to Google cranium. And the power of how into delist, thanks to the Chrome extension to do is just say, thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next lesson. 7. Utilising Browser Extensions: Hello everyone, and welcome to this lesson. Say this one is about utilizing browser extensions to maximize your productivity whilst working on a competing oil pops up. So in this lesson, we're going to discuss the different browser extensions at which can maximize productivity. How to install a browser extensions? Google Chrome, and the power of having a to-do list thanks to the Chrome extension to-do list. So what actually is a browser extension? Now, if you have any browser extensions downloaded, you'll notice them at the top of the search bar, where I've put a little circle around. And there's a little puzzle piece that she can click to view all of your extensions. So what actually is a browser extension? Well, it's a downloadable piece of software which can customize your browser. There's lace, different types of browser extensions. There's some fun ones like customizing your cursor, some games. But today I'm going to be fixed in on productivity extensions. So some extensions can see information on a webpage on some cannot. So if you are concerned about your online privacy, it's really important to check this before it decays in any browser extension. And I would have 5z because some of the browser extensions can be a little bit dodgy app would have bys. Two, always download from a recommendation as they've got experience with extension and they know that it's not going to be harmful TO can Pizza. Always be mindful of download and things on the internet, but that is just some I wanted to add. So how do we down a browser extensions on Chrome? Chrome is one of the most popular browsers. So this is the main one I'm going to be talking about today. So what you're gonna wanna do is visit the Chrome Web still the link to the Chrome Web soils in the resources section of the class description. But you can always just Google Chrome webstore and it will come up. And you want to make sure that on this side, the section that says extensions and themes you wanna click on extensions, makes her highlighted. And then you can use the search bar to search for the extension that you want. And then once he finds something you'd like Stan Lei e, just press Add to cram. It will give you a couple of terms to read and I feel okay with everything. Then you press Edit sent Yin and is that easy? It will add sorry on that. And like I mentioned before, clicking the little puzzle piece will allow you to view all the exceptions that you've got installed. And if you press the pen at next When extension, it will pin the icon it next to a search bar. So that's really easy access for the ones that use the most. So now I'm going to be talking about a few of my recommendations. Sentences that you can use for boosting your productivity while working from home. So the first one is to do a test, as I briefly touched on the fall is a to-do list extension. So you can add tasks or even websites as tasks and set deadlines for each one. So with the project's function, you can have different lists for different things which allows you to stay more organized. So, for example, for myself, I'd go a whole project for all of my work. And then I've got sub-lists for each subject. I'm sitting in the moment. And we mentioned before the rolling to-do list. So this is such a useful tool to have full you're rolling to-do list and a daily to-do list, again, is really important because it can help you stay focused throughout the day and allows you to know exactly what you need to achieve in that day. And the fun thing about to-do list is when you check something off as it being done, it actually gives you points which are called karma points on to-do list. And it does definitely most VA, because I know that I need some sort of reward once I've done something and having these little points where Corp is a really good way that keeps me motivated. The next one we're gonna talk about is forest. And it's also available as an app for your phone, but you just pay for the app. Harvard, the browser extension is free. So what it does is it helps you sound task was researching or doing any sort of weight using Chrome. It's got two modes. So the blacklist mode, which is the first picture, allows He's access all websites except ones on the block list. You can customize your block lists. So websites that you might want to block, things such as YouTube or any sort of social media site that you may be tempted to go on whilst you're doing your work or allow list mode. And that only allows you to access sites on the allow list. So let's say you're doing some research on one specific website. If you put onto the allow less that one specific website where analyze, do anything else. So this can completely eliminate other distractions that might be on your computer. And it's got a 25-minute time. So really good tease with the Pomodoro technique as we talked about before. The next extension is Weaver highlights. So have you ever wanted TBLT highlight things on a webpage or a PDF? Well, now you come and it has been around for awhile, but not many people know about this one is so, so useful because everything you highlight is actually saved onto the extension. And you can sort these highlights into specific photos if you want to. So as you can see on the bottom picture, they've got little folders and everything they've highlighted is within that folder. And that's suitable for research specifically, as you can highlight key information and then come back to it later. And if you want to go the extra mile, be even more organized. You can highlight in five different colors. The next extension I'm going to talk about is Toby, meaning. So taping Minnie is basically a tab organizer. So you can sort each tab intersections boss early, keeping the worn tab2 tab open, if that makes sense. So if you're doing research, again, a lot of these are going to help with research. But if you have a lot of tabs open while you're researching, it can be so e-sports just have them all in one place. Rather than scrolling along the tiny tabs at the top of Chrome and they just get all messy and muddled up. And if you want to be organized, this is super, super useful. And there's also a search function. So if you've got that many tabs open, you can just search a keyword from a tab and it will pop up for easy access. There's a related extension which is just called Toby. However, it does open up a Toby window every time you use it. And I do find that quite annoying. So Toby, Minnie is the woman I would go for if you're new to it, as it pops up when you click it in the extensions bar. And finally, the last extension I'm going to talk about is apt lock, which basically what it says on the tin, it's an ad blocker. And this works on the majority or websites that I've tried. A couple sit three, the nap book is Jan generally very good. So it removes ads which can be distracting when you're working. I yz Quizlet, a law on Quizlet has, of ads and outlook has taken away those ads. So I'm focused on the width I need to do because I'm sure, you know, it seems too easy to fall down the rabbit hole of a cleaning up something that you're interested in. And then you can just be scrolling on that website for hours. But I've locked eliminate says instructions, which helps maximize your productivity. Say, thank you so, so much for watching the last lesson. And the next video is about the class projects. So I really hate that these tips on browser extensions will help you in your feature of working from home. 8. Class Project: Hi everyone and welcome to the last video of the waking from him series. Say this is about the class projects. So I've got a few options for the class project. And the first one is to search the Chrome extension store to discover a new productivity extension. The second one is called the Pomodoro Technique and client on how more productive it makes Xi and Xj bond is created daily template for structuring your day. You may wish to keep this to yourself. You may wish to share it in their class project section, I'm sure, especially number three, we'll help a lot of people out and we always help each other during these difficult times. So the last time, thank you so much for watching this class. If you do want to check out a few of my other classes, they are all available on my profile. All the resources and the E may need during the class project, in the class description. And also the sources I used for my research. If you wanted to you a little bit, fed the Reading. Thank you.