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6 Tools No Digital Nomad Should be Without

January 10, 2019

Living life as a digital nomad allows you to focus more on your everyday tasks without the distractions in the standard office environment. What’s even better is that you have the freedom and flexibility to travel, allowing your surroundings to inspire and fuel you.

But, digital life does have its downfalls. Working on-the-go can lead to issues with communication, project management, tasking, and much more. Staying in sync with others on your team can be problematic. Thankfully technology exists to make tackling these challenges a breeze.

Maybe you already use tools for creating online invoices or for better managing your inbox. But, there are plenty of other tools that are designed to make your life easier and more productive. Keep reading to learn about 6 tools that are ideal for digital nomads, no matter where you are in the world.

1. Slack

There are many tools and apps designed for instant messaging, but Slack is one that you’ll definitely want to have available. This go-to communication tool is user-friendly and supports both personal and professional communication.

As a digital nomad, it can be hard to create a sense of team, belonging, and overall morale. By using Slack, you can relationship-build with your team members as well as clients and prospective partners. Using slack you can have side-bar conversations while also participating in more serious chats with your manager or a client.

Slack allows you to send group messages as well as private messages to team members. You can also create channels that are designed for certain teams or topics.

2. Zoom

Wouldn’t it be nice to have face-to-face communication with a client or a team member who is located hundreds and thousands of miles away? Even though you cannot sit in the same room and have a conversation, Zoom fills in the gap that distance creates by offering video calling capability.

Zoom is a quality video conferencing app that allows you to create and nurture a relationship with clients and team members around the globe. Text-based communication falls short of the ability to hear someone’s tone or see their expression.

With Zoom, you can host a one-on-one conversation or create a conference call that allows many people to join a meeting room. This is a great feature for company meetings. The tool also allows you to schedule video calls, recurring events and even offers privacy and access management.

3. Hootsuite

No matter what service or good you provide or which industry you support, Hootsuite is the tool for you. As a digital nomad, you’ve likely embraced social media for marketing, branding, and communicating with clients. But as you know, posting on social media each day is time-consuming and takes away time that could be spent making money.

To make using social media much more convenient, add Hootsuite to your list of must-use tools. The app will save you hours each week by allowing you to schedule social media posts days and weeks in advance.

By using Hootsuite you can:

  • Follow hashtags
  • Join real-time conversations
  • Minimize the disruption of time-zone changes
  • Have access to analytics
  • Better manage your community

4. Calendly

If you’re part of a team of remote workers, you know all too well the pitfalls of being on a distributed team. From different time zones to managing expectations, these downfalls can cause project deadlines to slip, which can interfere with client relationships.

Thankfully tools like Calendly exist to make it much easier to coordinate task due dates, project timelines, and much more. The app integrates with your personal calendar to check for availability and supports a wide range of meetings including group, collective, one-on-one, and even round-robin meetings.

5. Pocket

Research is an important part of being a successful digital nomad. Chances are you spend a lot of your travel time reading and researching about clients or certain topics. But, as you come across various articles, it’s all too easy to lose track and to forget which articles you’ve read. By using Pocket, you can save articles from the web and reference them as needed. This way you can have a growing list of information to use when creating content.

With Pocket, you can access articles and files no matter where you’re located. No internet connection needed!

6. Google Suite

Google is best known as a search engine, but the company has created an all-encompassing suite has made the life of a digital nomad much easier. The suite offers a wide range of tools including:

  • Google Docs for document management, sharing, and collaboration
  • Gmail for email and text-based communication
  • Google Drive for cloud-based file hosting
  • Google Hangouts for real-time chatting and instant messaging

The suite offers many other tools, including Google Calendar, Google Sheets, Google Forms, and Google Slides. What’s best about the Google Suite is that it’s free! As a digital nomad, it’s nice to find a well-rounded tool that meets all of your needs as an on-the-go worker.

By using Google Suites you can share and collaborate on documents, send emails, schedule tasks & assignments, set up recurring calendar appointments, host files in the cloud, and much more.

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