Well, in today's video,

I'm sharing with you seven Chrome Extensions,

which do just that.

And the best news of all,

they're all absolutely free.

Hello, everyone.

Scott Friesen here at Simpletivity,

helping you to get more done and enjoy less stress.

And that's right,

every single extension that I'm sharing with you today

is either completely free or has a free forever option.

So, let's dive in.

How often have you been wanting to share something

with someone else

and you know it'd be a lot quicker

if you just sent a quick video recording.

Let's say, for example, I'm redesigning my website

and I wanna tell my web designer that, you know what?

I wonder if we can change this image here,

and change the title of this,

and I like what's going on here.

Do you know how long that would take me to write

in an email or include in a text message or a chat?

Wouldn't it be easier

if I just took a quick screen recording?

Well, that's where Awesome Screenshot & Screen Recorder

comes into play.

Here under Chrome Extensions,

all I need to do is click on it,

and I can start recording right away.

Now, just before I show you a quick demo,

take a look at the variety of things that we can do here.

We can record beyond

just our desktop.

We can also record our webcam if we want.

We can also take screen captures.

Now, in many cases, I find that many of you

already have a screen capture tool

that you like,

but this is quick and easy

if you want to record a video.

All I need to do is say Start Recording

and pick what I would like to record.

I'm gonna hit Share in this case.

It's gonna give me a quick countdown,

and now we are recording.

Now, just before I start to narrate here,

what I want to point your attention to here

is the bottom left-hand corner.

Because if I click on this mouse cursor,

I can select to

highlight the mouse.

Now, you're used to seeing this here

within my Simpletivity videos,

but now you can do it yourself

as you record videos

for whatever purposes that you need.

So I can go over here

and highlight something over here.

If I want to, I can annotate as well.

So if I wanna say, you know what?

I don't really like this one,

this is not so great, but this image is great.

Let's continue with that.

In the very top right,

when we go back to our extension,

you can see that we have a counter here,

so we can see how long that video is lasting.

If I select this and hit Stop,

we are going to be brought

to the awesome screenshot page,

where we can now preview our video here.

We can edit it if we like.

The other nice bonus

is that we can generate a shareable link.

So right now I can copy this

to my clipboard and I can paste it in an email

and share it with whoever I want.

Awesome Screenshot also allows you to connect with other

popular services, including Slack,

Asana and Trello.

Now, number two on our list also has to do with

interacting with things online,

and that has to do with highlighting

or retaining information for later.

How often have you been reviewing a PDF document,

or maybe just a website and saying,

oh, this is great?

I love this quote here.

I'd like to include that maybe in my own blog article.

Well, all I need to do

when I have Weava Highlighter installed

is I can highlight this section here,

and now I am given a few color options.

I'm gonna use the traditional yellow here,

and now I'm starting to highlight text directly

on this website.

Maybe I wanna come down here and say, you know what?

This is a great quote as well.

I'm gonna highlight that as well,

but maybe I wanna remind myself what this is all about.

If I click on this highlight again,

I can even take a note.

This is a great quote.

Maybe we wanna include this in like I said,

a blog document or something along those lines.

Now this note is going to be saved

with this highlighted option here.

What we can do is go into Weava,

and now we can see all of the notes

that we've collected online.

So here you can see I've collected a few notes,

a few highlights I should say,

and my notes are saved along with it as well.

The great thing is is that whenever I come back

to this particular webpage,

my highlights are going to be waiting for me here.

So it doesn't matter if I close this tab,

if I refresh the page,

as long as I have the Weava extension installed,

I can come back here on all of my highlights and notes

will remain.

Number three on our list has to do with something

that I use quite often,

and that is currency conversion.

So we wanna take a look at Currency Converter PRO.

So it sits here along with your other extensions,

and it's quick and easy,

and you don't have to open up another tab.

So here I can just enter in a dollar value,

I can select the currencies that I want to convert,

and I can get an accurate up-to-date currency conversion.

So if you're dealing with international customers,

if you're needing to know the true cost of something,

if you're seeing something online,

which is not in your own currency,

you can easily use this here.

Now, the other nice thing is that we can actually add

multiple currencies as well.

So let's say there's a few different

currencies that you use on a regular basis.

I'm just gonna select these four, for example,

and now I'm gonna have them listed here in this window.

So if I wanna type in something like $50 US as of today,

well now I can see immediately the differences

in these other currencies.

And the great thing is is that

it's just always there when you need it.

If I come back here,

I can quickly save

these currencies that I use most often,

and come back and forth,

or maybe it's just the top two that I want to go through,

or maybe I wanna convert them a different way.

Quick and easy,

and I can get on with the rest of my day.

Now the next extension on our list

is gonna help us save time in a slightly different way.

When we open up a new tab,

we're often jumping and bouncing around from the variety

of different things

that we have open at any given time.

But watch what happens when I hit a new tab here.

Instead of getting the traditional Google page,

which is gonna show me some of my more recent apps

or my favorite bookmarks,

here, I'm going to get a reminder.

The Momentum Chrome Extension

is not just gonna show you the time and give you a greeting

and a nice background,

which will change throughout the day,

but it helps you focus so that you can enter in

your number one objective.

So for example, here,

I might type in something like, Make a new video.

That's maybe my main focus for today.

So every time I open up a new tab,

I'm gonna be reminded that making a new video

is really what I should be doing today.

Now, Momentum is quite beautiful, right?

It's gonna give me the temperature,

and it's gonna give me a nice motivational message,

and I can customize these things as well.

But what I really like

is that you can have your number one task,

or your highest priority always visible here

so that you can accomplish it

and not get sidetracked by everything else on your day.

The next extension on our list has to do with colors,

especially if you're ever designing or needing

a particular color for a presentation,

or a website or whatever it is that you do.

How often have you been trying to impress a client,

and you say to yourself, boy,

I'd really like to get this particular green color,

'cause I know they use it all throughout their website,

I'd like to add it to my presentation,

but how do you figure out exactly what this green is?

Well, that's where the GetColor Extension

comes into play.

Up here,

if I select the GetColor Extension,

I can play around

and select a variety of different colors here,

but what I use GetColor most often for

is this Pick selection here.

So if I select Pick,

you can notice that there's a little square

beside my cursor.

And when I hover over a color,

it's going to grab that color.

So let's say I want this green,

I'm gonna select that,

I'm gonna click it.

And when I come back up to GetColor,

here is the exact

hex color code, which I can select,

and I can copy.

Now that it's copied to my Clipboard,

I can paste it wherever I need to.

So let's say I'm

doing a presentation here,

and I really wanna impress the client

by using this text with their color.

So what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna go to my Colors,

go to my Custom Colors.

And all I need to do is paste in

what I just selected.

I'm gonna say OK,

and now I've got their exact green.

It's not just close,

this is exactly the green that I saw.

So, GetColor can not only help you save time,

but make it so much easier

for you to grab the colors that you need

anywhere on the web.

Next up, let's go into YouTube for a second.

And let's say that you're following a tutorial,

such as, oh, I dunno,

maybe my Gmail settings tips tutorials.

And one of the frustrating things

is that as you follow along with any tutorial,

you may need to switch back and forth, right?

Someone is showing you how to do something here,

but then you've gotta go to a new tab

to actually make those changes and follow along.

Well, that's where the Picture-in-Picture Extension

by Google comes into play.

So here we are.

I am perhaps watching this video,

and I want to follow along as this person

is changing these settings here.

All I need to do is come up here

and select Picture-in-Picture,

and it will take that video and pop it outside.

So now I can go to any tab.