Good tools are force multipliers that can significantly increase our productivity and accelerate learning if used wisely.

These are the two tools I use throughout my day to get things done and I would strongly recommend you to try out:

Instapaper (@InstapaperHelp):

Instapaper is a Read Later App to channelize anything and everything you want to read digitally.

If you keep open a hundred tabs in your browser, with the intention of someday reading all those essays, newsletters, blog post and twitter threads, Instapaper can come to your rescue.

With Instapaper, you read only through Instapaper and you simply save or forward other material as and when you come across those throughout the day. It helps avoiding doom scrolling social media apps or news sites whenever we have small chucks of time. As an additional benefit it stores an offline copy of the material.

Readwise (@readwise):

Do you keep thousands of book highlights while never revisiting those?

Readwise fixes this problem by sending a daily email with a selection of book highlights. You can customize how many and what type of highlights you want to receive.

Additionally it can sync notes to and from a variety of Apps and I use it primarily to automatically sync my Kindle highlights and Twitter bookmarks to Notion.

It’s also good for highlighting and saving snippets of text from any article, blog post or website to a note taking App like Notion or Evernote.

Hat tip to @SwapAgarwal for suggesting this great App to me.