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WORK SMART
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TECH STACK
Five essential
productivity apps
With the right apps at their fingertips, accountants
and finance professionals can save time, work more
efficiently and make it through the busiest of days.
Words Adam Turner
MANY PROFESSIONALS STICK TO
Microsoft and Google’s suites of tools
for day-to-day work, but many other
apps can also provide a meaningful
workplace productivity boost.
Here are five of our picks.
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1. Otter
Operating systems: iOS, Android,
Windows, desktop browser
Usage: Meetings
Otter can cut back on hours of
tedious work by automatically
transcribing uploaded audio and
video recordings, as well as live
meetings. It integrates with Microsoft
Teams, Google Meet and Zoom,
and can capture slides of onscreen
presentations. It can also capture
live audio if placed on the table in
a face-to-face meeting.
Otter even remembers different
voices and inserts speakers’ names
into transcripts. It also produces
a summary of each transcript,
while Otter Chat allows users to ask
questions about the conversation,
such as asking for a list of action
items and decisions from a meeting.
2. TextExpander
Operating systems: Windows, macOS,
Chrome, iOS, Android
Usage: Text additions
In TextExpander, a “snippet” is an
abbreviation of text that a user types
regularly. The software uses keyboard
shortcuts to allow users to insert
