7 FREE Productivity Tools You Didn't Know Existed!
About this video
Jeff presents seven free tools for hybrid and remote teams, each aimed at a specific pain point. He opens with Whiteboard at whiteboard.com, which he finds more user-friendly than Google Jamboard for real-time brainstorming in meetings without slides: he draws an idea, shares the link so colleagues can add to it live, names and saves the board as an image for a follow-up email, and notes a Mac Option-Shift-S shortcut for screenshots. Next, Flippity’s Random Name Picker spins a wheel to pick who answers a question or wins a prize, can randomly split participants into groups or teams, and offers a gift-exchange function for Secret Santa; flippity.net also hosts other free interactive tools, including a Virtual Breakout icebreaker built from a Google Sheets template. There is a timezone app, available for Mac only at the time with a Windows version coming, that shows times across locations in one click when emailing colleagues abroad. Scribe, a free Chrome extension featured in a sponsored segment, records actions in Chrome and turns them into shareable step-by-step guides, and now lets users browse guides other users have made for the site they are on. Handmirror.app gives a quick pre-video-call appearance check. The Shepherd Chrome extension adds a notes panel inside Google Calendar and Google Meet so notes stay tied to a meeting, sync across accounts, and can be sent afterward by email, Slack, Notion, Trello, or back to the calendar event, though shared notes and tasks require teammates to also use it. Finally, Sli.do’s audience Q&A lets presenters create a free event, paste its QR code onto slides so participants can post and upvote questions from their phones, reply by text, mark questions answered, and review analytics and an infographics report afterward.
Key takeaways
- Use Whiteboard for slide-free meetings: draw the idea, share the link for real-time input, and save the board as an image for follow-up.
- Flippity’s Random Name Picker can pick speakers or winners, randomly form breakout groups or teams, and run a Secret Santa gift exchange.
- The There app shows times across global locations in one click, which Jeff uses when messaging colleagues in other countries instead of reopening Google Calendar.
- Scribe records a workflow in Chrome and auto-generates an editable, shareable step-by-step guide; Shepherd keeps meeting notes tied to a Calendar event and Meet call and can send them to participants afterward.
- For presentation Q&A, create a free Sli.do event and put its QR code on your slides so attendees can submit questions by phone and you can track and report on them later.
Episode details: published June 7, 2022 · 7:44 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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