8 Best Chromebook Productivity Apps

Google, in association with Samsung and Acer, is launching the new Chromebooks today, a set of notebooks that run Google’s cloud-based operating system. When a user goes online to check email, read news, or visit websites, that user must first start the operating system and then the browser. In a Chromebook, the device opens directly in the browser.

In this article, you’ll find 8 best productivity applications to use in your Chromebook. They may be affordable and super-portable, but with the right selection of apps, Chrome OS-based laptops are also amazingly capable. You may be interested in the following posts: Free Artists Themes for WordPress, WordPress Social Networks Plugins and Google Analytics Widgets for WordPress.

1. Live Documents

Live Documents is the Office suite for the Internet Generation – a set of web-enabled, feature-rich applications for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations that increase personal productivity and facilitate group collaboration.

2. SlideRocket

SlideRocket is an effective cross platform presentation solution that integrates some of the best features of HTML5 and other modern web technologies into its platform.

3. Evernote

Evernote apps and products make modern life manageable, by letting you easily collect and find everything that matters.

4. TheDeadline

The Deadline is a sort of combination news-feed reader and digital sticky note tool that bills itself as an online personal assistant. It is available in the Chrome Web Store.

5. Zoho

Zoho Writer, Sheet, and Show combine to provide a comprehensive and free web-based office suite. The tools are more robust than some other web applications.

6. Remember The Milk

Remember the Milk is a to-do list tool that will work on your Chromebook or mobile device. The solution has been very popular with iPhone users and with early adaptors for some time.

7. Wave

Wave makes it easy to be your own boss. Just do what you’re good at, and lean on Wave’s smart online software for help with invoicing, accounting and payroll.

8. GravityDev

Gravity is a web based project management tool that has both free and paid options. Gravity has a very functional, drag-and-drop interface that makes scheduling and editing tasks relatively easy.