These things will make your life easier in 2020
Ah, January. It's our favorite time to reflect back on the past year and set goals for the future. If one of your New Year's resolutions is to simplify your daily routine, we've got you covered. At Reviewed, we test products and find the best ones for you. Here are a few of the products we recommend that will help streamline your day.
No list of things to help you tackle each day would be complete without an alarm clock. But since no one enjoys the blaring, screeching horror that is your average alarm clock, we suggest this gentler alternative from Philips (about $115). It mimics the sunrise so you wake up peacefully to the glow of natural light and soothing sounds.
Meet the notebook that will take your list-making, task-accomplishing game to a whole new level. The RocketBook (about $32) has reusable pages that can simply be wiped clean each time. Reviewers love that you can upload your notes and lists directly to any cloud service (like Google Drive) and that it saves so much time and paper.
You can't get much done with a dead phone (or tablet or laptop). And if you're someone who's always running around, that means you need this number one portable charger to keep you juiced up. Of all the ones we tested, the Jackery Bolt (about $40) was the most compact and the most powerful—it can charge an iPhone two times over before it needs to be charged itself.
If you barely have time to cook, let alone brave the crowded grocery store, then a meal kit delivery service could be a great option for you. Our experts chose Home Chef (starting at $6.99 per meal) as the number one meal kit service because it delivers the freshest, highest-quality ingredients along with easy-to-follow recipes right to your doorstep.
If you have yet to jump on the smart speaker bandwagon, now may be the perfect time to do it. The 3rd Generation Amazon Echo (about $90) is the best one out there because it has great sound quality, far-field voice recognition (so you can even talk to Alexa from a different room), and the ability to do everything from update you on traffic to read you recipes while you cook. It's like your own personal assistant.
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