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List of over 350 Productivity Tools
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#22First one: "Thrive Global is a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform that offers science-based solutions to improve performance."
What does that even mean? The next few descriptions seem similarly content-free. I even know what Grammarly is but if I didn't, "Grammarly’s AI-powered products help people communicate more effectively" would not induce me to try it.
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#23What's the point of this?
The second tab of the sheet seems to be the point.
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#24irony: combing through this list for one that is actually useful is a serious time sink.
One of the best productivity tools is not looking for a tool to make you more productive. Productive people create productivity tools to make them more productive. Unproductive people think those same productivity tools will magically make them work better, but most of the problem lies in a lack of self-discipline, rather than lack of a magic tool.
The problem is the right productivity system is contextual.
I have my homegrown software based on Autofocus, which as a system is enough for 95% of senior engineers. However, I've just added some additional responsibilities that draw me from a "maker" schedule more and more. My problem isn't that I'm not productive in terms of an hours worked perspective -- my problem is that I need help focusing on the right things in the face of competing requests.
GTD, for example, is fantastic for that. It's terrible for the average developer. Most developers can rely on their bug tracking software as their "productivity software" with a simple todo list and calendar reminders for due dates of non-code requirements. (e.g. HR paperwork)
I don't need a magic tool to make me productive; I need a tool to function as a priority queue. If you want a tool to make you productive, you're looking at the wrong tool.
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#25Slightly off topic: Is there a way to scrape info about who visits a shared google doc? Could a post like this be used to gather email addresses of people looking for productivity software?
Depending on the settings yes you can, though I'm not sure if linking it to specific profiles can only be done at Google, but I've been able to see how many people are reading a shared gdocument before.
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#26I was hoping these would be native desktop apps. Instead it seems to be a marketing list for a bunch of fly-by-night SAAS apps.
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#27First one: "Thrive Global is a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform that offers science-based solutions to improve performance." What does that even mean? The next few descriptions seem similarly content-free. I even know what Grammarly is but if I didn't, "Grammarly’s AI-powered products help people communicate more effectively" would not induce me to try it.
I visited the "Thrive Global" site and looked for the app. It is 3 clicks in, and appears to be... a tracking app which is available only on Samsung devices.
I'd be better off googling for "Productivity tools" over trying to process this list.