7 Chrome extensions for scheduling tasks and saving ideas

1. ClickUp Notepad

ClickUp is a service with a lot of opportunities for both personal productivity and teamwork. You can manage the system through the website, applications for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, as well as through the extension for Chrome.

The latter contains five main tabs: creating new tasks and saving important sites as separate tasks, tracking time in a plan, taking screenshots with notes, email with the ability to attach letters to cards from the to-do list, and a notepad for notes.

The posts tab has basic formatting tools, you can use the markdown language to style the text. A list of ideas can easily be converted into tasks for a work plan.

For one account, all actions in the extension are synchronized with the mobile application and the program on the PC.

2. Chrome Notes

A simple extension with a minimalistic interface allows you to quickly take notes in the browser, and then transfer them somewhere else through the clipboard or save them as a separate file in .txt format.

Chrome Notes works offline and can be opened in a separate tab. The text written in the window is saved when the browser is closed and the computer is restarted. The size of the window can be adjusted, and the extension will remember it.

To the standard features also added voicing of the text with an electronic voice and a button to activate the night theme. In addition, available spellchecking. When working with input, standard keyboard shortcuts for copy, paste, select, and cut work.

3. beanote

With this extension, you can highlight text on sites, as well as add stickers with signatures. All marked quotes are stored as a list in the Notes tab, and pages with these marks are written to the corresponding Pages tab.

The selection color can be selected from yellow, red, green and blue. For stickers, there is a button to fix them in the unfolded state. In standard mode, they are hidden under small icons, which, when hovering over them, display the text of the comment in small print.

The list of marks is displayed for each web page separately, but the Pages directory stores all available links to sites at once. Collected entries can be viewed in the context of a paragraph directly from the extension window.

4. Todoist

A popular task planner with sorting by days and weeks, as well as productivity statistics. Tasks can be collected into projects and lists, marked with different colors of importance, set deadlines and timers with a reminder.

You can work with Todoist not only through the app, but also through the Chrome extension. It will be able to add new tasks, save sites to the plan, add interesting articles and products. All the necessary functions are also available in this add-on for scheduling cases.

Each task has a field for a description, as well as comments. Completed items of the plan can be immediately marked in the extension window.

5. Simple To Do List

Another minimalistic extension with a to-do list. There is a field for entering a new item, as well as font color settings that show different levels of priority. Tasks are easy to drag and drop.

Completed items can be quickly marked and crossed out; a separate button is provided to clear the list. It is allowed to add not only plain text, but also links that may come in handy in the near future.

In a separate window with extension settings, you can choose the size of the pop-up window, as well as change colors for different priorities. In addition, all saved data can be easily exported from the extension, so that later it can be transferred to another account.

6. Checklist

List of tasks divided into active and completed items. Checklist items can be sorted by simple drag and drop and quickly deleted. The priority level cannot be set here, but you can add labels through the @ symbol.

The developers have prepared several variants of tags in advance, but you can add your own, their names should be only in Latin. By tags in the lower part of the window, tasks with the corresponding specified tags are displayed.

Checklist, with its minimal set of features and clean interface, is best suited for making a plan for a specific day or one week.

7. TickTick

One of the most popular task scheduling and reminder systems. Works cross-platform: Chrome extension syncs account data with apps for iOS and Android.

TickTick allows you to create tasks and subtasks, add tags to them, set the priority level, and group them into lists and folders. For cases, you can set timers with a reminder, there is a regular repetition mode. A calendar view is provided for planning the agenda.

Task cards have fields for notes. If necessary, it will be possible to quickly display unfinished business, as well as send all completed cases to the archive. Lists can be sorted by simply dragging and dropping items. Among the useful features, we also note the conversion of Gmail letters into tasks and sending the collected plans to other TickTick users.