These three products from Microsoft have been in my toolbox for as long as I can remember. We were working with a fun client, who wanted to push the boundaries of the tool and see what we can do with it. Side Note: A couple of decades ago, we created a functional quiz using nothing but Microsoft Excel. All you need to know are a few basic formulae, and Excel can work wonders for you. Microsoft Excel: The best tool I know for estimation and reporting. You can also create and save videos in MP4 format (without needing any other tool), but even without such advanced knowledge, the tool is powerful enough for the basic functions I talked about. Works very well for presenting complex ideas and interactions. Again, I look at this as a storyboarding tool. Microsoft PowerPoint: Great for presenting ideas. Word can track changes really well, and you’ll know who made what changes in the document.
Also, a great tool for storyboarding, especially when you know there will be multiple rounds of reviews and edits. Microsoft Word: Invaluable for writing document drafts, I often use a blank / scrap document to jot down my thoughts. I switch to Google sometimes based on what I’m searching for and how much personal information I’m willing to share. Both on my laptop and in my mobile device, Ecosia is the default search engine.
For instance, location-based searches, searches that link to some shopping, or booking air tickets or hotels, etc. Google Search: Ecosia is great at generic searches, but for the more specialized ones, you need the network and muscle power of the big guns. I was glad to find that it’s absolutely legit. When I first came across the tool, it sounded too good to be true, so I did some digging around. It allows you to easily choose not to personalize your search results. How’s that? Climate action notwithstanding, Ecosia also does not automatically track your click-behavior, search history and location like Google does. But if I had voted, here’s what I would have picked.Įcosia: An alternative to Google, it’s a search engine that plants trees! Without literally doing anything special, I contribute to addressing the climate crisis. 2022 was no exception.Īs you might be aware, Jane has already published the list for 2022. Every year since then, I’ve missed the participation boat under some pretext or the other. The last time I published my top tools was in 2016, in response to Jane Hart’s compilation effort for the “Top 100 Tools for Learning”.
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