Remote work tools are a necessity in this day and age. Data scientists at Ladders say that the writing is on the wall: remote work is here to stay and it will increase in 2023. 

This comes as no surprise at all. There are many perks to remote working and many people can benefit from it. 

As this trend continues to grow, soon enough there will be no “remote work”. There will be just “work”. It will be all fun and interesting to look at how the working scenery will look and evolve in the years to come. 

That being said, we are getting you ready for it. We have put together a list of 8 tools and apps that will make your work easier and more organized. 

It’s all fun and games until you get lost in documents, forget things and your tasks get messy. Working from home can be great and can save you time but if you have to spend that time trying to remember the details of a task or doing some of the work twice because you forgot where you wrote something down is not a great deal. 

We gathered task management tools, note organizers, communications apps, and many more. Let’s take them one by one:

Notion

Notion is more than documents and notes. It’s a customizable workspace that can be everything you want it to be. 

Let’s say you want to keep all your meeting notes in one place. Or have a content calendar. Habit trackers. Meetings. Tasks. Everything is in one place. 

It has a minimalist and smooth interface and it allows your team to individually personalize a workspace while still working together to get things done. You can use it both for your team and personal goals, as you can create multiple databases and play with them as you see fit. 

Airtable

If you got bored of dull spreadsheets that look the same and take too long to personalize, Airtable got you covered. They use spreadsheets but in a different way. It has a better UX and UI, it’s more intuitive, and allows you to do all sorts of things. 

From content calendars to making a contacts database, Airtable is smooth, collaborative, and easy to use. Say goodbye to random cells. 

It also has an Airtable Universe, where you can explore, discover, and share your passion, see how others use the app, and choose the industry you are interested in. 

Google Calendar

With all those meetings, personal life, and appointments, you need a place to put them all down. There’s no surprise why Google Calendar is on this list. 

You can schedule meetings, invite others, write down meeting details, and many more. A great function is that you can have multiple calendars. Let’s say you have one for work, one for personal, one for dates, and so on. Each and everyone can have a different colour and that’s how you can separate different areas of your life. 

Make sure to set how often you want them to send you meeting reminders and never miss a meeting again.

Another great use is that you can block hours into your day. Let’s say you have a personal project to work on. Well, you can block two hours in a day to work on it and make sure it doesn’t overlap with something else. 

Google Meet

Hand in hand with Google Calendar goes Google Meet. When you schedule a meeting in Google Calendar it automatically generates a Google Meet link that both you and your guests can access. 

It’s great because it’s all there and you don’t have to send meeting invitations separately. Moreover, people can see who else is in that meeting and at what time it’s supposed to end. 

Easy to use and friendly, you can use Google Meet online, without having to download another app. 

Google Drive

You need a place to store all those documents, notes, spreadsheets, and pdfs. Having them on your computer is nice, but if you have an entire team that needs access to a single document, it can get messy. 

Imagine that there are 5 people working on a document. Having the doc on their personal computer means that you can’t see what they are doing in real-time. You don’t know what they did or did not do so you start working on it yourself. At the end of the day, all 5 people have a different version of the same document and you now need to figure it all out. 

But with Google Drive, it’s all easy. You give access to your team, work on the same document or in the same folder and see changes in real-time. Moreover, if you’re away for one day, you won’t have to worry about sending documents that are on your personal computer as they are all in Drive, for everyone to access. 

Trello

Even if you’re working all by yourself or in a team, you need a tool to manage your tasks. If not, you can forget about them, not complete them, or get lost in all those projects. 

Trello is great because it lets you organize your work into projects. You put the task, the responsible person, the due date, details, and everything. Every box can have a label for the project or the department and you can always use settings in order to only have your own tasks shown. 

If you are a freelancer who manages multiple clients, you can have a separate bucket for every client to ensure you are on top of everything. 

Slack

Teams need a place to communicate. Emails are all nice, but sometimes they are too long, and formal and can queue up in your inbox. 

You can easily miss an email and it’s harder to read conversations there. Here comes Slack, the app that allows your team to communicate in real-time. 

The great thing about Slack is that you can organize it into channels. Every department can have its own channel and you decide who can see the content from every channel. Moreover, you can have a random channel for people to share memes and talk about life. 

It’s great to keep everyone in the same loop and it is less formal. 

Miro 

When working with a remote team, brainstorming can get messy and pretty hard. You can’t control the room and people can get easily distracted when working from home. 

Miro is a great app for creatives to get things done. It’s like a board, but online, and you can place images, notes, information, and everything else. It’s great for collaborative projects, mapping a task, and having everything in front of you. 

Every board can be shared and multiple people can work on a board simultaneously. 

Whether you are working from home or are thinking about it, all of these tools are great and can help you in your work. Not everyone is going to work for you, and that’s completely fine. Test them and see for yourself.