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17 Essential Tools to Boost Your Productivity 🚀🔥

Madza on November 07, 2023

In today's fast-paced world, there's a vast array of productivity tools at our disposal, designed to simplify our lives and enhance our efficiency....
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fredlag

Thanks for the share Typora is my favorite tool. That boost a lot my productivity. I have create a weekly template to be more efficient. You can find the description of this template here

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Madza

Thanks a lot for the insight and for sharing the template! 👍💯

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Görkem Çetin

Thanks for this list. I have never heard some of them before. Since you mentioned Beekeper, I thought it could be interesting to add Retable to this list - it's an Airtable alternative but with a one-time payment. You can also add addons on top to boost with several features. There are several developers connecting Retable with 3rd party APIs to store lots of company data.

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Madza

Thanks for the valuable addition, Gorkem! 🙏💖

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Giovanni Matteo

good article

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Madza

Thank you so much, Giovanni! 🙏💖

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DR • Edited

Fantastic list! I'll mention Obsidian and StackEdit as free alternatives to Typora, both of which I love working with 🙌

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Madza

I'm using StackEdit a lot myself too! Thanks for the valuable additions! 🙏💖

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sammie

Thanks for sharing, that's what I need.
I would like to share a tool I'm using servbay.dev. It helps me boost a lot my productivity by offering a seamless, graphical, one-click installation experience for local web development environments.

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Madza

Thanks for the addition and for checking out the article! 👍💯

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srinivasan

Very Informative, Thanks for sharing.

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Madza

My pleasure, thanks for checking it out! 🙏💖

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Liyas Thomas

Since you mentioned Insomnia, we're building Hoppscotch - an API request builder for the web.

GitHub logo hoppscotch / hoppscotch

👽 Open source API development ecosystem - https://hoppscotch.io

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Madza

Both equally awesome products! 👍💯
Mentioned you guys in the previous article about open-source 🙏💖

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Thiago Avelino

recommended Rio Term, he's fantastic

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Madza

Thanks a lot for the valuable addition! 🙏💖

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Dannick Bedard

I can't live without ditto! 😅

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Madza

A solid clipboard manager is useful indeed! 👍💯🚀

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Madza

My pleasure, thanks for checking out! 👍💯

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Tymur Minhaziiev

Everyone should use Ditto, this is the most useful tool here.

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Madza

Agree, very useful indeed! 👍💯

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Zag

Hey, can u tell me like why we need a markdown editor?
It is not for Programming surely?

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Madza

Markdown editor is great for tech bloggers and people who write documentation!
Its UI is more straightforward compared to IDEs and Code editors so that you can focus on the writing.

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Roland Taylor

Great article! To help fellow power users, do you mind adding which platforms these apps support? I don't think all of these are cross-platform.

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Madza

Thanks for the recommendation, mate! 👍💯
Out of those you have to install - Keypirinha, Ditto, and FancyZones are for Windows, the rest are cross-platform or web apps! 😉

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Rumen Dimov

I really like the last one. I have been using KeePass but Bitwarden is worth the try.

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Madza

Happy to hear that, Rumen! 👍💯

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thePeete

Beekeeper looks nice

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Madza

Indeed it is, loving the UI 🙏💖

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Hassan

So cool ;)

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Madza

Thanks a lot, Hassan! 🙏💖

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Manuel Ricci

I would suggest to include Microsoft Powertoys for Windows. That toolset is awesome. Always On Top, Color Picker, Quick Accent and Text Extractor just to name a few that are included

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Madza

Thanks for the valuable additions! 🙏💖

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wakywayne

I liked this article a lot, you probably could've leveled it up by categorizing the tools as well.

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Madza

I'm happy you liked it! Also thanks a lot for the suggestion! 🙏💖

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Felix • Edited

Awesome list, Typora is paid and I've been using it. But for those who want, Obsidian is also a markdown editor that's really awesome.

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Madza

Thanks for the valuable addition, Felix! 🙏💖

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Nacho Colomina Torregrosa

great !!

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Madza

Thank you so much! 🙏💖

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val von vorn

Insomnia is awesome. I never use postman again.

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Madza

Thanks a lot for checking out the article! 🙏💖

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Beatrice Akaeme

Great article. Thanks for the information

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Madza

My pleasure, thanks for checking out the article! 🙏💖

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Sebastian Christopher

Nice article. - but what happened to Raycast? 😄 😜

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Madza

Thanks for mentioning it here, Sebastian! 🙏💖

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Brayan Paucar • Edited

Useful post @madza

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Madza

Thanks a lot, Krammer! 🙏💖

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Tanmay Agrawal

Thanks for sharing, I will be trying all of them at-least once. As I love to try all new things and productivity tools are one of my favorites.

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Madza

Happy to hear that, Tanmay! 🙏💖

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The Ngoc Nguyen

Thanks, now I know more useful tools😀

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Madza

Happy to hear that and my pleasure! 🙏💖

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elanatframework

Thanks for the article.
You introduced very good tools, especially the ray.so website you introduced is excellent.

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Madza

I'm so happy to hear that and it's my pleasure to share with you! 🙏💖

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Clayton Kehoe

Great list - going to add a few to my workflow

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Madza

Happy to hear that, Clayton! 🙏💖

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Jhon Alessandro

I want to add that the best apps of this list, indeed are bitwarden and f.lux

Pls Guys, take care of your eyes 👀

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Madza

Thanks for the insight, health is wealth indeed! 🙏💖

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Sean Dinan

RegExr has been a lifesaver more times than I can count 😁

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Madza

Same here, awesome tool when dealing with Regex 👍💯

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Ritika Agrawal

Great tools! FocuSee looks very interesting, will check it out!

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Madza

Happy to hear that, thanks a lot! 🙏💖

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Jairon Landa

I want to share my favorite tool, jsonsilo, which is great for hosting static JSON files.😄

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Madza

This is indeed useful for those working with lots of JSON! 👍💯
Thanks for the valuable addition, Jairon! 🙏💖

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Will Pursell

I love lists like this because I’m always curious about what tools people are using to stay productive.

I use Insomnia and some others regularly, but I’ll definitely check out Lucidchart and Swagger.

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Madza

Thanks a lot, happy you found this useful! 🙏💖

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Madza

Curious, is this something you made yourself?

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Madza

My pleasure to share and thanks! 🙏💖

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Nitin Parmar

Nice list!! Definitely a few things here that I need to try out!! 😊👍

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Madza

Happy to hear that, Nitin! 👍💯

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Gál Szabolcs #Luckylukee @GlSzabolcs6

Thanks for the inspiration🤝

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Madza

My pleasure, mate! 🙏💖

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David Dominguez

Thanks I appreciate it a lot

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Madza

My pleasure, David! 🙏💖

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Andrés Estrella

I would recommend a tiling window manager instead of Fancy Zones. For Windows there is GlazeWM and Komorebi

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Madza

Great additions indeed, thanks a lot Andres! 🙏💖

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