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Pavel Keyzik
Pavel Keyzik

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What tools do you use to boost productivity?

Hey guys! I want to boost my productivity and I'd love to know what do you usually use as a developer. This is my list of tools and tricks:

  • Oh My Zsh with autosuggestion and git plugin
  • GitHub CLI. Usually I use gh branch to switch between branches as you can use Fuzzy Finder here
  • Aliases, like work to open work project, opensource to open my opensource projects folder

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Hodunov

For a long time I have been using keystroke launchers to quickly open applications.
I got used to the Alt + Space combination and use it in all operating systems.
For Windows I find the best ueli.app/
For Linux ulauncher.io/

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Pavel Keyzik

I love it, I've been using Spotlight for a long period, and now I'm trying to use Raycast, but the only thing that I'm using now is Clipboard history and searching npm packages. It's definitely cool way to boost your speed 👍

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Josh

you can do this with powertoys now, or even with just the built in search (you can customize what you actually want to show up in the results)

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Rachit Khurana

Ya, I also use that, but KDE plasma has krunner inbuilt which works better than this. And I just love it. It seriously boosts productivity

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Randall • Edited

GitHub Copilot has been pretty valuable. I used to be more critical of it but it has improved substantially. I'd estimate it writes close to 20% of my code for me now, plus a lot of my comments.

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Pavel Keyzik

I've tried to use GitHub Copilot and this thing is really cool. I'm not using it at the moment, because someday I removed the extension, but I'm thinking about installing this again 😅

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Ben Sinclair

The most useful productivity tool I've taken to using over the last year is tmuxinator for launching several windows/panes for each project I'm working on.

Besides that, I use a script I wrote to automate setting up any of my agency's projects, almost all of which use a completely different stack from the next.

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Pavel Keyzik

Oh.. That sounds really cool! I should give a try on this one 😍 Thank you!

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Kaushal Joshi

Bunch of VS Code and browser extensions, will make a list if you are interested.

Other than that, I use Notion, Obsidian(rarely), G-Calender, thiscodeworks, cold turkey

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Pavel Keyzik

Sure! I'd love to see. I think there is always something useful that people are using, but you don't even know about it 😆

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Kaushal Joshi

Browser extensions:

  1. Grammarly
  2. Search by Image
  3. Pocket(+mobile app)
  4. ColorZilla
  5. WhatFont
  6. Picture-in-Picture Extension
  7. News Feed Eradicator: Blocks news feed for social media apps
  8. The Great suspender: suspends tabs after certain time of iactivity
  9. Wappalyzer
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Kaushal Joshi

VS Code Extensions:

  1. ESLint
  2. Prettier
  3. Code Spell Checker
  4. Better Comments
  5. Error Lense
  6. Headwind (For Tailwind)
  7. JS Code snippets
  8. Live Share
  9. Markdown Preview
  10. Regexp Explain
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Pavel Keyzik

Thank you for sharing ❤️

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taijidude • Edited

Powershell to automate deployment tasks oh and Obsidian to Journal / Take Notes

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Pavel Keyzik

You have some scripts that you wrote and just run them, right? Do you use anything like GitHub Actions?

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taijidude

At work i use a jenkins server. I call my powershell scripts from the jenkins job script. I do that so If the jenkins is down i'm still able to run my scripts locally. Also i find it more comfortable to develop the deployment scripts.

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Pavel Keyzik

Got it 👍 Thank you for explaining 😊

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taijidude

You are welcome

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Nick Taylor

I have a bunch if you want to check out iamdeveloper.com/uses for my whole setup, but here’s some I wrote about recently.

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Pavel Keyzik

Wow... It's a really huge list and so many things to explore. Thank you 😍

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Nitzan Hen

This is a little more specific, but I authored and use Agrippa quite a bit, to auto-generate React components without the boilerplate. It saves a lot of time, definitely compared to creating components by hand (but also compared to snippets).

Sorry for the self-promotion, but I sincerely believe it's great 😄 and it's saved me a lot of time and repetitive effort.

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Pavel Keyzik

Wow! I didn't expect to see anyone who wrote something on their own and share this tool. Have you thinking about making a website with documentation? I see README and Wiki page, but maybe you have some plans around it 🤔

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Nitzan Hen

Thanks for checking it out!
I actually do have some plans for a proper website for it, but it's a lot of work and progress is quite slow.
Currently working on more features for the tool (more frameworks other than plain React, test file support, etc.) which I'm rather excited about 🚀

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Pavel Keyzik

No worries! At least you have some information in README 👍 Good luck with project development and be strong 💪

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Keff

I use almost nothing, for me it feels like I get less productive the more tools and software I use. So I try to keep my environment quite clean and only use the essentials. Easier to set up and start working on new machines too.

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Pavel Keyzik

More tools not better, I totally agree, but let's say upgrade Zsh with Oh My Zsh is definitely worth it

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Keff

Ohh yea, definitely. Zsh is one of my essentials, next to vscode and git

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Pavel Keyzik

I've started to use RayCast couple weeks ago, I still don't use a lot from it, but I love it ☺️ And I've never heard about Org-roam or Transient. Thank you for mentioning that and now I'm going to learn more about it 😊

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Andrew Baisden

I use dozens of tools that make me more productive. Some worthwhile mentions:

  1. Todoist - For having a to do list
  2. Notion - For managing projects and life
  3. Centered - For task and project time tracking
  4. Obsidian - For note taking and writing articles
  5. Google Calendar - For managing events etc...
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Pavel Keyzik

Obsidian looks like something interesting! I'm going to try this one, thank you for sharing something new 😍

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joyetgeorge • Edited

You can use the chrome extension Blackbox to copy text from videos, images, PDFs, etc

Come very handy while watching coding tutorials on YouTube 🤗
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...

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Rachit Khurana • Edited

Few Tools I just love:

  • Notion - For all the document related stuff
  • Slapdash
  • FreeTube - Opensource youtube client
  • Github Copilot - your pilot for writing code
  • Ferdi - Best software for all communication platforms in 1
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Randall

Can't hurt to try it. It very often successfully guesses what code I want to write. When working in JavaScript, if I have an array and I write const sum = then I expect it will autocomplete arr.reduce((sum, next) => sum + next, 0);. If I have a string and I write const lines = then I expect it will autocomplete str.split('\n');. When I'm lucky it will write entire functions and unit tests for me. It's not always right and you can't use it blindly - you have to read and understand the code. Sometimes looking at its suggestions is a waste of time. But overall I have found it a net positive, I write more code in fewer keystrokes and less time.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

None so I don't get distracted 👌😅

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Pavel Keyzik

😂 I've never even thought about this approach

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JoelBonetR 🥇

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hacker4world

For me it's mainly my code editor which is vscode, i installed a bunch of extensions to help with that and i have access to github copilot so it's more productive than before

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Pavel Keyzik

I use vscode too, but I realized I don't have any extensions to boost productivity 🤔 Maybe you can suggest something? The only thing I have is copy-json-path to easily copy path to the value, it really helps me while I'm working with large JSON files 😅

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hacker4world

Live server, better comments, prettier, auto import for javascript, html tag auto completion, quokka i will make a list for good extensions i use soon so make sure you check it out

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Pavel Keyzik

Awesome! Thank you 😍