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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

Most important ones:

  • The IDEs from JetBrains are my programming silver bullet (sorry, Fred Brooks!)
  • Dash, by Kapeli has changed the way I program by making documentation more usable
  • A recent finding basecamp.com/personal. This one is weird: I have been following the writings of DHH and Jason Fried since like forever, and was totally aligned with their values of calm, productive, asynchronous work environments. But somehow I was never curious to try out their software. When they launched Basecamp personal, I finally gave it a try and found out this was the product management tool that reflect those values that I have been missing for so long.

I also use Trello for simpler stuff like managing my recipes

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Mac Siri

How are you finding Basecampe Personal? How are you using it?

I'd like to think that I would enjoy basecamp the same way I enjoy DHH and Jason Fried's ideology and approach to work but I'm having trouble switching to their product for day-to-day management.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

I am using for managing myself and two important personal projects.
It took some time to get used to it - like with everything new, right?

A tipping point for me was when I discovered and read the "How we work" section of the Basecamp Handbook. Every feature in basecamp makese sense when you have this context:

Basecamp Handbook: How we work

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Utkarsh Talwar

Thanks for sharing! Been meaning to try Basecamp ever since they came up with the free personal plan a while back.