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Discussion on: Can you suggest me Free productivity tools?

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus

It really depends on what you exactly need.
Personally, for my tasks and habits I like to use Habitica. It is powerful made geek-proof haha.

Otherwise, I use Notion for everything (because you can do everything with it). I recently move my tasks and habits to notion. So I have notes, researches, contacts, habits, tasks, recipes... You got it pretty much all my life is in notion. And I can access everything from every devices. Pretty great.
I had used a ton of other tools, just let me know what you are exactly looking for.

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Tharun Shiv

Great will check them out.

Personally, something which helps me

  1. Add & Prioritise my works
  2. Remind me of my works
  3. Assists me in recording what I've been spending my time on
  4. And where I can look at a report of what consumed my time

I don't expect these to be automatic or like an AI assistant 😂, i am ready to enter these manually.

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus • Edited

The cool thing about notion is that you create your own templates. So basically you can do everything you want.
As a scrum guy I use Kanban to prioritize and track my workflow. And for that I will highly recommend :

  • Asana
  • Trello
  • Notion

Notion is (I think) the best one for personal use. But If you want to have your team on it (you can share your notion page) you can go with Asana.

For Time tracking (in general) you can put it manually in notion or even in a simple text doc or you can use a really cool tool called toggl. I use it when it comes to tracking the time I spend on client's projects and I highly recommend it ! You can track the time spent on each tasks and even set your project in it. You also have some analysis dashboards for an overview of the time you spent on tasks and projects.

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus

I almost forgot, there is a tool called kanboard which is Amazing for project management qnd it has built-in Time tracking for every tasks you enter.
The only inconvenient is that it has to be self-hosted.

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Tharun Shiv

Thanks a lot for your time and suggestions, it definitely helps. 🙂

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus • Edited

My pleasure !

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Gayan Hewa

Seems like you mentioned Org mode just now.

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Alessandro Cuppari

For time tracking I've using Clockify for the past month and it has been great. It has a mobile app and a browser extension which integrates with a lot of other tools (like Redmine/Jira/Asana and even Github issues and emails), so if you go to, say, a Github issue, a "start timer" button will appear and when you click it it will take the name of the issue and will start counting.

You can also create several workspaces, with several projects, mark tasks as billable (or non-billable), get reports, export them as pdf, etc. Pretty complete.

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Tharun Shiv

Ah that's nice.. will check it out. Thanks🙂

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Eelco Verbrugge

What about your privacy? Don't you worry about your data given to a third party? Why are/aren't you?

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Tharun Shiv

Hi,
May I know which services you're referring to?

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Mike

Notion looks really cool.. gunna check it out

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Tharun Shiv

Yep

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus

Yes it is ! It really was a gamechanger for me when I began to use it.

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Mike

what do you think about Notion vs Basecamp?

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus

Well If I'm not mistaken, Basecamp is more team-oriented right ??

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Mike

As I dig into it more it seems like it. I had just remembered they released a free personal version.

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Thomas Singerlé-Florus

For team purposes (for my developer job in a company), I haven't used a lot of tools. I have used Asana, Taïga, ToDo.
But since I am an entrepreneur I like to keep things simple (which, for me, is the key to productivity).
Now, I only use cross-platform tools because I have to work on my MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, Ipad, and phone. So I like to keep it simple and to be able to access anything from anywhere.
I wasn't wanted to have my personal stuff on an app and Professional on another. The good thing with Notion is that you can separate everything in sub-pages and spaces.
So I have both on the same app which is cross-platform (that's dope).