Ben Halpern

Posted on Mar 28, 2023

What new productivity tools have you discovered lately?

#discuss #productivity

I'm sure there are plenty out there.

Top comments (25)

Parker Waiters • Mar 28 '23

I tried out opencommit — pretty useful hypothetically. I'm not sure it immediately handles my "edge cases" enough to be a real daily tool, but I bet I'll be using something like this soon.

OpenCommit: GPT generates impressive commits in 1 second 🤯🔫 (open-source)

Dima Sukharev ・ Mar 27

#git #ai #productivity #opensource

Paweł Świątkowski • Mar 31 '23

Yeah, feeding AI your company's private code - what can possibly go wrong here? ;)

anupam • Mar 31 '23

Always scared to do this.

anupam • Mar 31 '23

But it is creating very long messages, which in turn can be confusing.

Frank Font • Mar 28 '23

ChatGPT -- still new to me.

Also, I hope people discover Twigflo.com <-- that's my productivity tool which incorporates GPT4 behind the scenes.

Ben Halpern • Mar 28 '23

Twigflo looks really interesting!

Can you speak to the GPT use behind the scenes?

Frank Font • Mar 28 '23

Thanks Ben -- yes, we were wowed by GPT back in December and right away extended Twigflo to automatically suggest work task breakdowns as you create what we call a "mission diagram"

twigflo.com/post/use-artificial-in...

Ben Halpern • Mar 28 '23

Cool, that makes sense. If you have GPT active in the stack I imagine there are future ways to leverage it as you build.

I bet people would be interested in following along with this, so I'd definitely recommend getting started with the org account I see you created 😅

Frank Font • Mar 28 '23

Thank you for the suggestion Ben -- I will have a look!

Thomas Bnt • Mar 28 '23

This is the area of GPT and IA.

Perplexity AI is a good source to know more with a question.

perplexity.ai

Syed Faraaz Ahmad • Apr 9 '23 • Edited

I've (re)discovered simple pen-and-paper for writing down my thoughts and findings during intense debugging sessions. For me, its simple and it works and I can always revisit it when I'm feeling down to remind me of the good work I've done

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Mar 28 '23 • Edited

My answer is always Checkvist because it's the most under hyped project I use a lot, it's not well known but it's awesome.

They present Checkvist as Keyboard-driven list making and Maximum efficiency and control over tasks, outlines, to-dos, writing, and planning
I tend to say that it's like a mindmap, but ugly and efficient.

It's a side project from two JetBrains people, that's how I got to know it, and it get that IntelliJ feeling, that's probably why it clicked for me.

Using Checkvist is usually the first step of anything I do, for example I thought about learning some part of datascience so I wanted to collect all the information in one place
-> Hence 🤔 Data Science? High level overview

Nick Taylor • Mar 29 '23 • Edited

I tried Centered a while ago but couldn't get into it. I revisited the app a couple weeks ago and it's been super helpful to keep me in my flow. I guess second time's a charm.

I'm part of Freakin' Nerds that @cassidoo started on Centered if anyone else wants to join there.

Here's a 14-day pro trial signup link for anyone interested.