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21 best productivity tools suggested by the Dev.to community

Tharun Shiv on June 03, 2020

Hi, This is based on the "Can you suggest me Free productivity tools?" post of mine. I am grateful with the kind responses from the community....
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Fayaz Ahmed

Awesome list dude.

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Tharun Shiv

Thanks a lot Fayaz :)

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Tharun Shiv

Let me know if you would want to add any other tool to this list. Also, let me know if this post helped you. :)

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Jaya chandrika reddy

Great post! Would add Evernote to it :)

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you, yeah Evernote is one too.

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Spartak

Thanks for the list! If I could find it earlier, maybe I'd save my time not to invent a bicycle.
I'm currently making a todo/time-tracking app for local individuals, absolutely free.
It is in deep beta and lacks a lot functionality and also not translated in any language yet, but if you wanna look at what can be made with Hasure + Vue here you go: todofor.me/

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Tharun Shiv

Maybe , a language switching feature would be a great addition.

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Spartak

Yes, as I mentioned, it is still in active development, and I was making it for local designers/developers, that are currently using it. If it becomes something, it is elementary to create a translation using Vue

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Tharun Shiv

Great!πŸ™ŒπŸ™‚

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Tharun Shiv

Okay, I see that it is in a non-English mode. Would have been easy if it was in English mode. Any plans to release one? πŸ™‚

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Tharun Shiv

Thanks a lot for sharing. Your work wouldn't go a wasteπŸ™‚ all the very best with it! Will definitely check it out. πŸ₯³

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pkoloveas • Edited

I would also add the OneTab browser extension. It has been a lifesaver as I tend to open a ridiculous amount of tabs on different topics simultaneously but I need them stored in separate groups for quick access for when I'm working on specific topics at different times (bookmarking everything is not a solution as I try to keep my bookmarks as clean as possible).

I have also found that with the Share all as web page feature, it's quite easy to use it as backup/versioning of the stored tabs (I periodically store the QR code to have a local link to the generated web page).

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KidZer0

this is awesome, i found it 1 month back, i always left open 10s of tabs but also wanted to give restart to my system, then had to copy all links to reopen, but after i came across this app, boom, saves all your tabs in on tab .

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Tharun Shiv

Yep :)

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Tharun Shiv

Great! Thanks for th contribution πŸ™‚

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Michiel Hendriks

Basecamp Personal is free, and somewhat limited. But for personal or small projects the limitations will not hurt. What's more important, the company is aggressively pro-privacy. They will not mine or sell any data you share with them.

An other suggestion.

Jitsi Meet a free and open source (so you can also host it yourself) video conferencing suite. Sadly, also this one does not really support non-Chromium browsers. Unlike most video conferencing suites, Jitsi does respect privacy and is fully end to end encrypted.

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Tharun Shiv

Amazing, thanks for the suggestion. πŸ™‚

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Jaya chandrika reddy

A very helpful one, thank you.

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you. Means a lot.

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venkat anirudh

Amazing list! Thanks!

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Tharun Shiv

Hope it helps you, thank you.

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praveenreddy1798

Thanks for this list, checking out few of these now. 😊

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Tharun Shiv

Sure, Glad to help.

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Adrian Matei

See bookmarks.dev as alternative to raindrop.io for your dev bookmarks and code snippets

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Tharun Shiv

Sure, will check it out. Thank you πŸ™‚

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Pankaj

Thanks for sharing this list. I have started using Notion few days back and I am totally in love with it.

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praveenreddy1798

Yeah Notion is amazing!

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Tharun Shiv

πŸ™Œ

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Tharun Shiv

Everyone loves Notion! That's amazing!! Thanks for commentingπŸ™‚πŸ™Œ

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Kovid Rathee

Ah, nice. You compiled a list of all the suggestions you got. That's good stuff man!

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Tharun Shiv

Yes, thank you. πŸ™‚

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Will G

Just an FYI Pomofocus's basic features are free but it has a paid plan that adds: Project Management, Yearly Reports, Custom Notifications, and Dark mode.

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Tharun Shiv

Oh I see.. thank you for letting us know. I've updated the post. πŸ™‚

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denisdifazio

Awesome post!
I noticed that the Asana link is broken

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Tharun Shiv

Yeah! Thank you for pointing it out. Edited the post now. πŸ™‚

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Martin Kaschke

I would like to add workflowy.com to the list.

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Tharun Shiv

Sure, thank you for your valuable suggestion. πŸ™‚

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Anibal

My personal:
for manage project: timeneye + clickup

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Tharun Shiv

Amazing choice! thank you for your valuable comment 😊

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dan-simiyu

Thanks for sharing man

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Tharun Shiv

Glad it helped πŸ™‚πŸ™Œ

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚑

Nice list. You can include Taskade as well :)

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you.. sure will do πŸ™‚

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Gourav

Clickup is insanely powerful project management tool! Too underrated.

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you for sharing your opinion πŸ™‚

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NaveenKumar Namachivayam ⚑

Agreed. You can also check it out monday.com, but no free tier.

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Tharun Shiv

Okay, will do.

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Thomas SingerlΓ©-Florus

I've discovered two other amazing apps.

  • Tide which, I think, is the best pomodoro app you can use !
  • Routinery for creating routines and habits ! An amazing UI, great features !

I highly recommend those two ! A better time management and increasing your efficiency will definitely increase your productivity

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Tharun Shiv

Amazing! Thanks again, for your contribution πŸ™‚ will check these out. Currently I'm using Clockify to track my activities.

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Jorge Araya

First time I see Orgzly mentioned without Emacs or org-mode being mentioned in the same paragraph lol.

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Tharun Shiv

I see... Can you tell us more about it?

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Jorge Araya

Well, nothing beyond of what was stated in the article, just that you can use any file made in Orgzly in Emacs as it is a file format proper of org-mode, a major mode for organizing things.

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Tharun Shiv

Ah.. okay.. thank you πŸ™‚

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Jonas

Nice list!
How does Clockify compare to Toggl?

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Tharun Shiv

Clockify helps me enter a task title and control the start and stop time of the timer on a basic level, does Toggl do this?

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you πŸ™‚ glad you liked it

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NoMad42

In context of this post I want to shear this aggregator site with many helper tools:
tiny-helpers.dev/

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See Yi Jie • Edited

How can you miss Archbee.io? I can create beautiful documentations and keep track of my learning easily with it. Its developer-centric and has integrations with draw.io, etc.

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Tharun Shiv

Great! Will check it out. Thanks for letting us know πŸ™‚

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Tharun Shiv

Thank you, glad it helped. πŸ™‚

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JAM

Tick Tick is also an awesome tool! It focuses mainly on to-do lists and has a nice pomodoro timer.

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Tharun Shiv

Great! Will check it out. I'm currently using Clockify to record my activities. πŸ™‚

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Piotr SΕ‚upski

Also AirSend

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Tharun Shiv

Okay, thank you for contributing πŸ™‚

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umamaheswari.v

Was looking our for such tools recently. Thank you. Did great help..! πŸ’―

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Tharun Shiv

My pleasure. Glad it helped. πŸ™‚

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Charles-Eugene Loubao

Hi @developertharun thank you for adding PageMaker to the list! I found this article completely by accidentπŸ˜…

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Tharun Shiv

Glad πŸ˜„

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Julia Moskaliuk

I recommend TMetric time tracker.
tmetric.com/
Wide functions list: time tracking, task management, project management...etc Great productivity booster :)

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Tharun Shiv

Thanks! Will check it out πŸ™‚

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Olivier Chauvin

I recommend Quire.
It's a free project management software with some great features. My favorites are it's Kanban board, gantt chart, and offline syncing.