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Many of you busy London women out there might have explored some relaxing lifestyle hobby classes for your precious spare time. Raise your hand if you’ve ever thought about, or taken, a cooking, art, language or even makeup class! But today at Prettly, we have a new one for you – coding class?

Before you write it off as boring, hear us out! In today’s Internet dominated world, here at Prettly we think it’s good (and fun!) to get out of the home and learn something new! Plus if you’re Instagramming and Facebooking all those beautiful pictures of your culinary concoctions anyway, here’s a great way for you to learn the best tips on how to share them online, delivered by some of the best professionals in the online world.

Enter General Assembly: our latest discovery of a great place to learn in London all things tech and Internet. The beauty of it is that you can easily learn anything from how to make a website to creating great design for online to even just networking.  For the most part, the classes and workshops are affordable (starting at around 20 GBP each), fairly short and surprisingly fun - you can get it done in one early evening, meet some new fun creative people and still make it to after-work drinks with your girlfriends.

So go on – put that manicure to some good nerdy use, grab your laptop and try something new – we think there might be something to learn for most of you amazing, ambitious working women out there.

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Here at Prettly we are all about ease, convenience and living a productive yet balanced life. As we kick off September, we thought we’d share our tips on our personal favourite apps and tools to really help in your daily work life. As always, these are completely our own opinion - things we try, use and love here at Team Prettly. Here are our 4 picks of things that we swear will clear up at least one area of your work life that you might be having trouble with! 

For managing your crazy inbox: FollowUpThen

This is a brand new discovery and while it’s still in development, we’ve found it to be pretty handy so far. It’s basically for those emails that you receive which you can’t answer right away, need to have a think about, or need to do ten things in between before you are ready to address. Just send the email to FollowUpThen and they’ll shoot it back to you when you’re ready, like a nifty little email boomerang!

For making your presentations all “prettly”: Canva

Canva is one of those things that simply makes you go “oooh”. Just even scroll your mouse around their homepage to see what we mean. The graphic design website allows anyone to make their materials that much better looking - anything from invitations to your PowerPoint presentations.

For managing bills and housemates: SplitWise

In a house with flatmates, SplitWise is a godsend. You can enter everything that you pay for and the app will go ahead and split the bills, as well as keep a running tab of who owes what, in a simple, beautiful design that takes all of the guess-work and confusion out of it for you. Easy splitting, happy house. :)

For procrastination central: Lifehack.org

Yes, we got sucked into this at least three times while writing this blog entry. Lifehack.org is a total treasure trove of tips, advice and inspiration for all aspects of life, from work to relationships to money. For some serious advice on handy ways to manage that desk, check out the technology section, which has the latest on easy-to-use apps and web tricks.