What are your favorite terminal apps or scripts, to use for productivity?

#discuss #python #bash #productivity

There are many productivity apps these days. Todo lists, notes, kanban boards, etc. But what are some productivity based apps or scripts you like to use in the terminal. Anything that wholly runs in the terminal or uses some api to help.

Latest comments (24)

Alexey Melezhik • Nov 30 '18

My 2 cents here. SparrowHub - I used it in my daily scripting. No need to write script from the scratch every time when I need it. Just write it once and upload to SparrowHub (:

Alexey Melezhik • Aug 19 '18

Hi! I maintain SparrowHub - repository of useful scripts. I use these scripts in my daily work.

Avalander • Aug 18 '18 • Edited

Well, I don't know if I would call it a productivity app, but I set up a bash script that runs every day at 17:30 and creates a system notification to remind me to go home.

Thomas Junkツ • Aug 17 '18

github.com/dinedal/textql query your csv with SQL-syntax
github.com/tomnomnom/gron gron makes JSON greppable
github.com/jonas/tig git spelled backwards ;) to manage git repos

Otherwise, I am a big fan of orgmode.org/ which is the reason I took a glimpse at emacs.

Shawn McElroy • Aug 17 '18

these are some of my favorite tools. z is just so darn useful.

Emad Ibrahim • Aug 17 '18

tmux - github.com/tmux/tmux
tmuxinator - github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator
lazygit - github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
z - github.com/rupa/z
ohmyzsh - github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh
zsh completions - github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

Brett Stevenson • Aug 17 '18

A couple of my favorites that haven't been mentioned:

thefuck: corrects your previous console command
googler: search google from the terminal

Adrian B.G. • Aug 17 '18 • Edited

Those apps are for managers productivity. I mean that the managers should handle the extra tickets and priority, handle everything else around us so we can focus on development. At least for the teams where I worked, the bottleneck were the devs, so the managers acted as a filtering funnel for us.

We, as devs need tools to that take the load from us. Last one I found was bash-it. Other is docker to install local dependencies like databases and admins.

Most of the others are embeded in the intelliJ IDE's.