9 apps to help you survive 8 office hours at work

How to ditch burnout and embrace zen!

Eight hours a day is a big chunk of time, and at work, you deserve to feel both productive and, well, not like you're about to tear your hair out.

🔑The key? Apps that are as user-friendly as they are powerful.

We've done the legwork (so you don't have to!), testing out a slew of options to bring you the ultimate list of office-friendly apps.

Get ready to transform your workspace into a haven of efficiency and calm.

Any.do

Note-taking

It is a multi-functional task-planning tool that helps you:

• compose to-do lists
• fill in your calendar
• assist you with memo taking.

Your daily schedule is merged with your to-do list, which you can share with your contacts and use across multiple devices.

It is a winning time-saver because it does not separate your personal and professional lives blindly like other apps might do but helps you consolidate the efforts of controlling business and personal tasks.

TMetric

Time tracking

Office hours are accountable when you have a reliable timer that will provide precise calculations without creating too much fuss when launching, stopping, or filling in the notes.

TMetric is an example of noiseless assistant that diligently works in the background.

It can:

• track your billable hours
• produce reports
• generate invoices.

The list of integrations is over 150 widely used apps and services including Google apps so you can certainly implement TMetric tracker for accuracy of your time calculations and boosting your business productivity in any professional field.

Mindset

Mental Health Monitoring

This app belongs to the productivity apps of a new generation.

It has a simplistic design as it directly addresses the issue of stress reduction.

Once you install it, you can choose between 4 modes and hit the button to practice meditation and certain relaxation exercises.

This is a perfect app for the break time. It helps you slow down and focus on what is important here and now.

Daily sessions guarantee you will ‘set your mind’ and enhance your working stamina almost immediately.

It is one of the most powerful tools for staying positive in the midst of hectic office life.

Podcast

Listening to Podcasts

It is a free app that got popular for a reason.

It takes zero effort to install it and get access to a huge educational resource.

While reading might be a time-consuming activity that requires silence and concentration, applying podcasts is exactly what you need for the creative spark or 'unplug' in case you lack ideas.

This app is ideal for expanding your expertise and learning new skills.
Knowledge always makes difference and in terms of making yourself more efficient, this app might be the solution you have been looking for.

Zoom

Video Conference

This is one of the best video conferencing tools, with several plans to choose from. It enables you to contact anybody directly from your Zoom account.

Unlike other apps, Zoom can help you reach the conversation participant even if they do not have an account.

If you opt for a free plan, you can engage up to 100 participants in your call and have as many conferences as you need.
The call organizer can mute or unmute group members, activate recording, etc.

This is an optimal communicative tool for asking questions in real time, conducting polls, and generating reports.

It can connect participant not only by phone numbers but through streaming for unlimited audiences on Facebook Live and YouTube channel.

MyFitnessPal

Calory Count

My Fitness Pal is a classic app that facilitates your fitness routine and maximizes your results by precisely tracking your caloric intake.

The algorithm is simple: you define your nutritional goal and input it into the tracker. Now, you can feel calm about calculating calories.

The office often puts pressure on your eating habits. This app seems like a great solution to avoid calorie overload and diet spiraling out of control.

This program busts food habits that harm you. With this monitoring app, keeping healthy will not be a challenge.

Expensify

Expense Tracking

Tracking expenses apps are always in demand, but few can offer what Expensify does.

It helps with your tax return, which makes it your personal accountant in the pocket. Monitoring your personal spending is also under total control now. This is a free application that makes it easy to upload checks and receipts using your Android or iOS device.

Keeping everything in one digital storage is handy, to say the least.
This is an app with superb functionality.

Applying Expensify means that your expense tracking is secure and automated. In addition, you can automatically reimburse other members seamlessly if you want to bring everything and everybody together in one account.

Airtable

Smart Scheduling

This app is for smart scheduling and content planning, which is why it is widely used by individual marketers and large marketing teams.

It allows meeting deadlines without panic, tracking a project without hustle, sharing any kind of content on the go and feeling that you totally control the workflow however complicated it can be.

Switching between tabs will take you from the schedule page to the project tracker page in a click, greatly facilitating communication and removing any possible blockages to complex management.

Otter

Speech Transcriber

The audio-supported assistants became a market discovery some time ago and are here to stay.

Otter is a free app that transcribes your audio.

It targets many user categories, including employees who have many notes to take, meetings to attend, presentations to prepare, etc.

You can minimize time spent on memo-taking. The quality of transcription is very high, and you get a text that sometimes needs just a simple editing touch.

Concerning the privacy issues, this app has the policy identical to your privacy relationship with Google docs.

If you record the conversation with several participants, the app will separate the different speakers as it can identify and distinguish voices. It keeps the information easily searchable and shareable.

To wrap it up

Conquer the workday, not the other way around!

Optimizing those hours is crucial for a third of your life within those office walls.

By incorporating these handy apps into your daily routine, you'll have everything you need – from effortless note-taking to seamless communication – to streamline your workflow, prioritize your well-being, and ultimately, turn "office survival" into a breeze.

Consider it your productivity cheat sheet, delivered straight to your fingertips.