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Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use?
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#42I use https://everyday.app as a habit tracker :P It is actually my business. It started as a side-project but I kept working on it and now I make a decent living from it. So I like I can keep tweaking it to adapt to my personal system and feedback I get :p
Just installed this app on mine and my partners phone. We've been trying various apps but your app's UX is amazing. Thanks a lot for sharing!
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#43I switched IDE's from JetBrains to MS VSCode with some additional tools:
-ZettelKasten Note taking(ROAM) via FOAM plugin, yes similar to BearI always run my desktop with one VSCode instance open to my private note taking workspace.
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#441/ Task planning:
https://sunsama.com
Sunsama helps me proactively plan my "big rocks" for the week/day. I like that you can drag tasks to the calendar and timeblock them that way. it also tracks the time on each task which helps me calibrate how long things actually take.
2/ Inbox for Slack https://dispatch.do
I spend a TON of time in Slack. I used to feel distracted by unimportant messages and constantly worried about losing track of important messages. Dispatch helps with both issues:
i. Filtering out distraction: it's much easier to separate out the important messages from everything else. I can set rules and filters to route messages into different "Inboxes". e.g. Important, Clients, Product, Other, etc.
ii. Keeping track of messages: it treats messages much like an email inbox. Messages stay "open" until I explicitly mark them "done".
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#45I have a custom CLI specifically for my daily workflow. It takes care of a lot of tedious procedures like creating branch near and PRs with the appropriate title formats, transitioning Jira ticket statuses, spinning up and down servers, Git shortcuts, requesting reviewers, opening all changed files on a branch, showing the status of all my Jira tickets, etc. That way I can do I can do things the right way at my compa…
Similar but I mostly use shell aliases (cross project) and Makefiles (mostly proj specific) for these kind of things.
Another example, creating a merge request already filled out from the current branch is a few chars away.
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#46I’ll volunteer Taskwarrior (https://taskwarrior.org), since I don’t see it from anyone else just yet. It’s a CLI oriented task management system which (once you learn it) can be very quick and easy to use. It’s not perfect but they’ve done a better job that I would have for sure, and have really thought about reducing friction.
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#47Workflowy.com has been a tool I’ve religiously used for the past 7 years. (I’m a startup founder/CEO)
It’s a simple bullet-points-only app/site to track things.
I follow a toned down structure of Getting Things Done by David Allen. Categories: Inbox, Today, This Week and then a few other longer term buckets.
Lastly, I use Apple Notes (between phone and mac) to note thoughts and longer form writing.
Trying to keep it simple, else the overhead gets too much and the tool starts gathering dust.
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#48Not a tool but the biggest thing for me has been silencing notifications unless I'm on call.
I might be a bit slower to respond and miss the occasional question I could have input on or an outage I could solve, but my ability to concentrate is so much better.
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#49The most simple but one of the most effective tricks I learned from an "old sweat" when I was a green junior dev just starting out... keep a folder called notes, and each day create a date-numbered file in the format YYYYMMDD.txt. Put any code snippets, git links, lessons learned, meeting minutes or basically anything interesting in there each day. Then to access it - you can bash script search, e.g., to find anythin…
The simplicity of this is remarkable.
Dropbox-like tools can also ensure it gets backed up to the cloud.
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#50Red bull and cocaine.
Last week you asked "Ask HN: Web devs, what are your biggest productivity boosters?" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35745953 ). You benefit from the answers of the other users here.
Exactly why I clicked on it. Hopefully has more responses than mine did!