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10 Developer Tools to Improve Your Daily Life as a Developer

Balraj Singh on September 12, 2024

You’ve probably come across the usual suspects like GitHub, VS Code, and Docker, but today, I’m diving deeper. These tools aren’t just practical; t...
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Alex Kaul • Edited

One more tool to improve the workflow: Freeter. It allows to organize web apps, files & folders, urls, etc by projects and workflows and stay focused on what matters at any given moment. Free & open-source.

And a post on how I boosted my productivity with it: dev.to/alexk/how-i-boosted-my-prod...

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Balraj Singh

This sounds so good, thanks!

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Deron Decamp

just wanted to say as someone with ADHD (extreme emphasis on the 'AD'), this is beyond helpful. kinda reminds me of tweetdeck, except it's for organizing more than Twitter accounts. which is perfect for me. thank you!!

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Alex Kaul

Deron, thanks for your feedback! Great to hear that it's useful to you!

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Carvier Dotdev

Man awesome, this type of plug are really good in my opinion because you are given so much value... I was looking for something like that even considering create it from scratch even I don't think I have the level for that task right now. Thanks

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Alex Kaul

Thank you, Carvier!

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Geoff Selby

Wow that looks super helpful. Thanks for sharing!

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Ashley Armstrong

Another one to add

raycast.com/

It's replaces macs spotlight.

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Balraj Singh

It's such a good tool. Always on the top of my list!

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Mike Stemle

Why did you add the #opensource tag? While some of these tools have some open source components, I don’t see anything in this list which is actually an open source project. Linear is the closest, but it even requires you to use their services for most of their functionality.

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PhoneScreen AI

Cool!

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Balraj Singh

Thanks!

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Vaidas Viper • Edited

amazing and cool

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Mike Stemle

I dug into a few of these tools. Please read the privacy policy, as some of them are clearly selling user data and direct access to users to data brokers and large social media companies.

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Valentin Iljaž • Edited

If you're a developer who frequently switches between different tools, I highly recommend checking out webacus.dev It's a versatile calculator built specifically for devs, combining many operations we use daily into one intuitive interface. Definitely a time-saver!

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Martin Baun

Big fan of Todoist but TickTick has been quite a bit better for me! Riiight after goleko :P

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Ahad Khan

Undoubtedly an amazing article! 👏 It’ll be a fantastic resource for beginners and those still using traditional methods.
I will also suggest to see the post 7 Essential Tools to Boost Productivity and Simplify Life in 2024

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Gad Iradufasha

Only 4 of them, used that I knew before

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Stefano Ferrari

Thanks
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Jaleel Nazir

fictos.com - add this one also, has more than 500 tools in place.

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Blok

Good post!