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What's Your Favorite Productivity Tool?

dev.to staff on April 01, 2024

There are so many unbelievable cool websites and tools out there to boost productivity! Do you use tools like NotionAI or LensGo, or have you disco...
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Jaime López

In my case, Obsidian is a game-changer. It allows me to organize my daily tasks, keep a journal of all my activities, organize the content for every customer, takes notes of each meeting I have, and have a place to store my ideas.

I know Obsidian is not a development-related tool but it increased my effectiveness and I became more efficient.

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Marcel Neumann

I cannot agree more.

It also motivates me to research and learn about unknown topics due to its backlink functionality.
So it's definitely a productivity booster for me…

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Bala Madhusoodhanan

Visualizer for Regex
Visualizer for JSON

Couple of cool tools for power platform developers by @wyattdave

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Steeve

An important time gain recently was using Beeper: all my conversations are gathered in one application (WhatsApp / Instagram / Messenger / Signal)

  • ✅ I'm not missing messages anymore
  • 🔊 I can mute everyone
  • 🗑️ I can move conversations into a "Low Priority" section so that I can answer later (like a week later).
  • 🍒 Icing on the cake: I don't have to open Instagram anymore with the infinite scrolling doom, and I can still talk to all my friends.

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Ben Sinclair

I tried Beeper out a little while ago, and like other systems before it (trillian, bitlbee, pidgin, etc.) I found it didn't do what I wanted while at the same time becoming one single point of failure/frustration. Instead of a feature I don't like being annoying in one messaging app, now it's annoying in all of them!

It means I have to trust yet another third party, and since it won't support all the chat systems I use, I'll still have to go to other apps anyway.

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Steeve

Yes, it's annoying when chat networks are down... but I believe they will make the scaling and communication stable over time. In the background, I still have all native chat apps installed (and muted) if Beeper goes down.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

I thought it was like the also amazing ferdium.org/
but wait... this also works on mobile ?
Absolutely incredible, I have been looking for that for years
You are my hero :)

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Steeve

Yes, Beeper is available and synchronised on IOS and Android :)

I didn't know about Ferdium, it is similar to Franz, thank you!

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Ferdium is Franz but much better. Open source and supports many more services.

I joined the waiting list for beeper. Hopefully I can get in :)

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furkan alahi

Can I have a ref code please?

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Steeve

Code about what ? I’m only a Beeper user :D

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard • Edited

Alfred is the one thing that has revolutionized the way I used Mac OS since one year.

Alfred brings a command palette interface to Mac OS, exactly like what you have in VS Code, IntelliJ, the shell, vim, ...

You are missing out if you like command palette interfaces in general but are still doing MacOS by point & click & drag & drop

You have to see it in action though, I just made a screecast here

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Dan Bailey

I gotta jump on this post to say HELL YES. My boss at Oracle in 2022 introduced me to Alfred and it's been an invaluable addition to my macOS life. It's to the point where if I'm on someone else's system and I hit the activation key combo and nothing happens, I immediately think, Okay, WTF?! Every macOS user here should watch Jean-Michel's video and then branch off into other stuff on YouTube so you get a full feel for the utility of Alfred.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Thanks a lot !
Feel free to share the link in Slack / Discord
The embedded preview comes with it and it's very efficient to get people interested :)

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Kathryn DiPippo

Shoutout to my former coworker Aaron for getting me hooked on it 5 years ago. It's one of the top reasons why I pushed for a Mac over a PC at my current job (there's other reasons too, but I'm glad to still use Alfred over having to search for a PC-equivalent tool).

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Angela Caldas • Edited

Using Ditto clipboard manager helps me a lot when dealing with lots of data to be copied and pasted. I can trigger lots of ctrl + C and then just open Ditto's and all my content is listed. It works much better than Windows default Clipboard Manager and saves a lot more entries.

As a front-ender, I also love some Visual Studio Code extensions:

  • Auto Close Tag: Automatically adds HTML/XML close tags;
  • Auto Rename Tag: Automatically renames paired HTML/XML tag
  • CSS Peek: Allows peeking and going to css ID and class strings as definitions from html files to respective CSS;
  • Duplicate action: Duplicates files and folders;
  • JSON to TS: Converts JSON object (from selection or clipboard) to typescript interfaces;
  • px to rem: Converts px to rem, and vice versa;
  • Todo Tree: Shows TODO, FIXME, etc. comment tags in a tree view
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Michael Tharrington

Big Notion fan here!

Notion + notepad and pen are an awesome combo for me.

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Sukhpinder Singh

My favourite tool or extension is Open Multiple URLs

Since i write on multiple blogging platforms like LinkedIn | Dev.to | Hashnode | Newsletter | C# Programming

So when I want to open all the platforms at once, I use the aforementioned extension.

Simply add the URLs as shown below and click the "Open URLs" button.

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Apart from that, I use GitHub Desktop | Visual Studio Code

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Ben Sinclair

When I want to do this in Chrome, I save all the pages to their own bookmarks folder. That lets me organise them, and I can right-click and say "open all in tabs" if I want to. It's how I start different projects when I switch contexts at work. Chrome also supports tab groups now so you can close them all at once as well.

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Sukhpinder Singh

Sure, I agree, but I've been doing this for a long time...! It's almost like a habit now.

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Paulo Henrique

coffee ☕️

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Alex Mirzoyan

For making some fast notes I use blank.page.

It has a simple design and also stores everything locally.

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allen_z

Focus on work in IDE :leiga
Automatically generate PRD tool : docuopia

In discussing favorite productivity tools, I'd like to share two platforms that play crucial roles in my daily workflow: leiga and docuopia .

Leiga is an exceptional AI-powered smart assistant designed to enhance productivity and management capabilities by leveraging AI technology. Its intuitive interface allows seamless integration of AI capabilities with a range of productivity tools. Leiga manages your emails, messages, and tasks intelligently, reminds you of important events, and provides personalized recommendations and assistance.

Docuopia is another noteworthy tool—an AI-based collaboration platform dedicated to boosting efficiency by improving team communication and collaboration. It offers various features such as document management, project tracking, team discussions, and intelligent task assignments. These features facilitate more efficient teamwork among members.

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Nicole Peery 🌵

ClickUp has been a game-changer for wrangling my creative chaos into order. It's effortlessly adaptable from minimalist to feature-packed to match your vibe. It lets you streamline your projects, deadlines, and brainwaves. It helps me stay on top of everything without losing my notes (or my mind).

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Leonard Sangoroh

I would have to say Notion. Since I started using it back in 2021, all my documents are organized and stored in one place which can be accessed and updated on all my devices.
I no longer use anything else; whether it is journaling, planning, project management, progress monitoring...literally everything that requires documentation is on my Notion.

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Adaptive Shield Matrix

Idea Intellij IDE. Its so much better than vscode. Refactoring just works especially in comparison to vscode, where if you rename a folder everything breaks.

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MaximusInglorious

True. At least for Java, its far better than anything else out there right now.

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flo merian

Raycast. it's a time machine. it reduces context switching and connects tools. it makes my days more productive — and fun.

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Aatmaj

Yes it is a very useful tool. Especially it's clipboard history comes in handy.

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Stefan Moore

My timer. It lets me know when its time to take a break or stop working.

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Debajyati Dey

commandline fuzzy finder - fzf
lazygit - github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

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Naveen

Been a user of vscodium + obsidian + firefox + TKL keyboard until I migrated to Doom Emacs + firefox. I like the point that I could refer to the notes, add or refer agenda right out of the code editor. My company has some projects that lsp in emacs do not build. I use IntelliJ in those cases. Otherwise, I am back home to emacs.

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Maxi Contieri

Innoreader is a game changer for me

inoreader.com/

I am NOT affiliated with them

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Damilola Emmanuel Olowookere

Flawlessly DevDb.

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Tanuja V
  1. Forest App
  2. Notion
  3. Todoist
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Dan Bailey

Jumping on the Todoist bandwagon here. Keeps my ADHD brain on-task and getting stuff done, no matter where or when I am. Having a fully-synchronized to-do list between my mobile and desktop and work/home environments has been a game-changer.

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Thaísa Vieira

At the moment my favorite productive tool is Focus To-Do. It allows me to track my activities and provides me with productive reports

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Cesar Aguirre

Old style here: a pile of small pieces of paper on my desk and .txt files in Markdown format. I keep Notepad++ as my scratchpad and move notes to a "vault" I keep with Notable. Nothing fancy

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Volkmar Rigo

When I need to write RegEx: regex101.com
Windows FileExplorer replacement: TotalCommander
Password Manager: bitwarden

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Code Byte
  1. Notion
  2. Github Gist
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Pulkit Gupta

For me,

  1. These aliases gist.github.com/pulkit-30/86f27297...
  2. Warp: warp.dev/
  3. Fig: fig.io/
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Ezekiel

For us windows guys

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Windows system utilities to maximize productivity

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