Google is one of the most powerful companies in the world, mainly because of its search engine, but also because of the myriad of tools that it puts at our disposal and that make our lives easier. At the user level, the tools in its free version of Google are more than enough to be able to send emails, share files online, check the weather or use its very useful translator.
Google has countless tools and applications that help us to communicate easily, manage our business or organize the trip of our dreams. They cover different topics and it can be said that Google has a useful tool for each of our needs, but below we are going to talk about the most useful tools and widgets most used by users.
Tools for everyday
These are some of the most basic Google tools that can be very useful both in the workplace and in the personal.
Gmail
Email is something both useful and necessary. One of the first actions that were carried out with an Internet connection was to send an email, so it can be said that its origin is almost as old as the creation of the Internet itself. Google offers one of the best email services of all time and is used by more than 1.5 billion users today.
Calendar
Google Calendar is installed by default on many Android devices, but it is not essential to have this operating system to be able to use it. You can use it to schedule events, create a shared calendar with your co-workers or synchronize the birthdays of your contacts among many other functions. You can create multiple calendars and differentiate them by assigning them different colors.
Google Docs
We could baptize it as the “Word of Google” . It is a tool that allows you to edit and draft documents, providing you with functionalities very similar to those offered by Microsoft Word. One of the most useful features is that you can share documents with other people and view and edit them at the same time. Google recently added the ability to edit without having an Internet connection.
Google Sheets
It offers the functionalities of an Excel elevated to its maximum expression. It is so similar to Microsoft Excel that data can be pasted from one to another while maintaining the same format. Applying formulas and creating tables is very simple thanks to its intuitive interface.
Google forms
Information is power and through the Google form tool you can collect information in a simple and efficient way. Very useful for students who need to take surveys for their academic work. You can also use it to gather information to carry out a study or as a template to confirm attendance at events.
Google analytics
One of the most complete Google tools for business use. Mainly used to monitor what happens on your website, be it personal or professional. The information provided by Google Analytics is very broad: origin of visits, location of visitors, time spent on our website, printing by keywords, etc.
Translator
Without a doubt one of the most practical and used tools of Google. An ideal tool for translating texts or images into more than 20 languages and languages that surely more than one of us have used when we are traveling to be able to communicate with people who do not speak the same language.
Calculator
Doing math without using a calculator seems like a thing of the past. The calculator is one of the most useful tools. We can use it in a thousand daily situations such as calculating the purchase budget, calculating the percentage of an amount or making a simple sum.
Google maps
The quintessential tool to move around and see the world. Google Maps takes us anywhere in the world, although it must be recognized that many times it gets confused and ends up taking us to dead ends or to locations that weren’t where we wanted to go, who hasn’t happened to? In addition, by orienting ourselves and calculating the time of a trip both on foot, by car or by public transport with Google Maps, we can create personalized maps to point out places of interest, restaurants we want to go to and everything you can think of.
Most famous widgets
The main function of a widget is to give easy access to the most used functions in a simple and visual way. Let’s say it’s a smaller program that connects to the main manager and downloads specific information. Through a widget we can access the applications directly without having to open them previously.
Seeker
The Google search widget is fully customizable. Depending on the device we are using, it can be displayed in different sizes and accompanied by other shortcuts such as the incognito browsing option, voice search or Google Lens.
Google Photos
You can use this tool to store hundreds of images and videos in the cloud for free up to 15 GB of storage. Through its widget you can enjoy your best memories.
Youtube
Through the YouTube widget you can have quick access to the best videos on the net. There are countless types of unofficial Google widgets that you can download on both Android and iOS.
Time
One of the widgets that almost all of us have installed on our computer, tablet or smartphone is the weather widgets, something that influences both our mood and the plans we want to update. Having the weather forecast at hand is always useful for making decisions.
Google Keep
A super powerful note manager. The human being has been changing the support where to take notes throughout history. From the cave walls, through stone, paper, and now electronic devices. The Google Keep widget is an ideal way to have all our annotations at hand organized in a very visual and practical way.