--- title: Blog posts tagged "Productivity" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/productivity --- # Blog posts tagged "Productivity" #### [Top 10 apps to boost your productivity](https://canonical.com/blog/top-10-apps-to-boost-your-productivity) Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to get back into work and feel efficient. But whether you are feeling tired, unorganised, or demotivated, there may be an application here to help you refocus --- Apps #### [Productivity is but a snap away – useful applications for your everyday needs](https://canonical.com/blog/productivity-is-but-a-snap-away-useful-applications-for-your-everyday-needs) The state of being productive comes in various guises. Sometimes, you want to do more. Sometimes, you want less. It’s been a while since we toured the Snap Store, and we thought you would be interested in a fresh batch of cool, fun and useful applications that can help you perfect your daily digital activities. --- Desktop #### [Work smart, not hard – fun applications to help you do less in your day](https://canonical.com/blog/work-smart-not-hard-fun-applications-to-help-you-do-less-in-your-day) Modern-day life is fast, hectic, demanding. Time is precious, and we often need to be able to squeeze every atom of efficiency from our environment and our tools. But sometimes, the best thing you can do for your productivity is – to do nothing. Sometimes, less is more. In this article, we want to show --- Desktop #### [Productivity corner: free, versatile office suites in the Snap Store](https://canonical.com/blog/productivity-corner-free-versatile-office-suites-in-the-snap-store) For the past few decades, the digital office formula has not changed much. It still revolves around three main components – text documents, data spreadsheets and visual slide decks, designed to convey a powerful business message. While simple in essence, this model is quite complex in practice, and choosing the best tools for the job --- Desktop #### [Get productive on the Linux desktop with 7 essential apps](https://canonical.com/blog/get-productive-on-the-linux-desktop-with-7-essential-apps) The Linux desktop is not just for people who like to mess with computers. With a wide range of enterprise class productivity and collaboration tools Linux users can enjoy computing parity with their peers and colleagues running other popular desktop computing platforms. Here are 7 apps that will boost your productivity and you’ll also fin --- Desktop #### [Credit card as organisational changer](https://canonical.com/blog/credit-card-as-organisational-changer) Why scale out matters Beware the credit card It’s just a little piece of plastic. Yet any part of your organisation can use it to buy infrastructure on demand, in a public cloud, right now. And that’s dangerous. Say marketing want to run a campaign, and they have a rough idea of the IT resources --- Cloud and server #### [What are the management factors in planning a migration from Windows to Ubuntu?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-are-the-management-factors-in-planning-a-migration-from-windows-to-ubuntu) Best of our webinars – (From the Ubuntu: The Desktop of the Future webinar @ 29.25 min) ANSWER Large scale migrations from Windows to Linux desktop can be done well. But some very ambitious projects to move to an open source desktop have run aground because the complexity has been too great for the organisation to manage --- Desktop #### [Ubuntu Desktop for the enterprise](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-desktop-for-the-enterprise) Ubuntu has become a serious contender for businesses looking for desktop alternatives. As an open-source system, it offers huge licensing savings over proprietary technologies. And it’s far leaner and easier to customise, which helps you minimise management costs and get more from your older hardware. This paper looks at three key areas w --- Desktop