Name your top 3 favorite software products that you use

This post is part of the Mayfield + DEV Discussion series. Please feel free to go back and answer previous questions as well.

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[Parker Waiters]

1. VS Code
2. Raycast
3. IFTTT

[Jakob Christensen]

What do you use IFTTT for? I like it but I never managed to find an actual use case for it :)

[Max F. Findel]

1. I'm a heavy user of the whole Proton suite. I'm always on VPN on my laptop and mobile, I love the private email and the new calendar :)
2. After some bad experiences with several computers over 10 years of coding (completely dying the day before a release, for example), I run all my code on Gitpod
3. I love using Bear for note taking and organizing my thoughts.

[Nick Taylor]

It’s hard to choose just three, but here goes.

• VS Code Insiders Edition
• Raycast
• Rocket

I wrote about other productivity tools I use for anyone interested.

Productivity Tools I Use

Nick Taylor (he/him) ・ Mar 29 ・ 2 min read

#tooling #productivity

You can also check out my uses page for everything I use as top 3 was tough.

[Pandademic]

Oooh , difficult choice , but:

• Raycast
• Emacs
• f.lux

[Jeremy Friesen]

• Emacs
• Hugo
• Postgres

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

My two besties

• Sublime text 3
• firefox

[Vincent Milum Jr]

Might I recommend upgrading to Sublime Text 4. They're doing some really cool stuff with it, and still actively updating it ;)

[🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳]

Ohh thanks, let me check it 🤘

[leob]

1) VSCode
2) VSCode
3) VSCode

Okay I cheated a bit here, but you get the idea ... :)

[Odai Athamneh]

If we're not limited to developer tools:

• Todoist
• Google Drive
• VS Code (of course!)

[David Taitingfong]

I feel like I might want to revise this list later, but here's the first 3 things that pop into my mind:

1. Libby, "the library reading app". It allows you to rent books AND audiobooks - it's awesome!
2. Gramps, open-source genealogy software. I've been creating my family tree using this & it has SO MANY features. Maybe too much? But it gets the job done.
3. Notion, "a project management and note-taking software". It's pretty simple IMO; and there's a desktop app which I always prefer.

Gramps is the only one I don't use everyday, but when I do use it I get lost in the flow - again, there's SO many features...it makes me want to add every bit of detail that I can.

[Chetan Dhongade]

1. Vscode
2. Insomnia
3. Figma

[Joe Mainwaring]

1Password - I’ve been a customer for 10 years and it’s been an absolute game changer. I recommend this anytime I see friends get their socials hacked.
JetBrains Webstorm - my IDE of choice. It’s a bit hefty compared to VSCode but it excels better at tracing-related workflows with complex projects.
Docker - I lived the SysAdmin life before containers, being able to package packages into their own little runtime environment has been transformative for scaling up an application stack.

[Moon Presence]

1. As the main code editor, I like to use VSCode. It has everything I need, and if there is something missing, you can try to create it. ❤️
2. To create notes, articles and just materials, I use Obsidian. Beautiful design, convenient functionality, and many other useful features. 😃
3. I like to use Figma to create designs, layouts, icons and more. This is one of my favorite tools for working with design ✨

[Pontakorn Paesaeng]

1. JetBrain IDEs (namely Rider, PyCharm, and IDEA Ultimate)
2. VSCode
3. Figma

[Ricardo Sueiras]

Linux, Git and aws

[dikamilo]

• WebStorm / PyCharm - I'm using JetBrains IDEs from years, and they are my favorite piece of software
• Obsidian.md - amazing note-taking app
• Bitwarden - password manager for any device