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📝Note Taking
- Evernote - Evernote can basically become your second brain and remember everything for you.
- Google Keep - A nice and simple note management system tightly integrated with Google products.
- Inkdrop - A cross-platform note taking application for Markdown lovers.
- Joplin - A note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities.
- Notion - An all-in-one very customizable workspace for notes, tasks, wikis and lists.
- Yana - Powerful note-taking app with nested documents, full-text search, rich-text editor, code snippet editor and more.
- OneNote - Very good note management solution, but best for Windows users.
- Preserver - Notes organizer desktop application based on Electron.
- Simplenote - Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, and the web.
- Standard Notes - A simple and private notes application.
- WorkFlowy - Outlining application for nested bulleted lists.
- Obie.ai - AI platform that brings all knowledge and documentation into one spot.
- Obsidian.md - A knowledge base tool that works on local Markdown files. It allows you to create links between different notes.
🔖To-do Apps
- Airtable - Mix of spreadsheet and database to help organize work.
- Amazing Marvin - Marvin incorporates principles from behavioral psychology to help beat procrastination, feel in control and finish todo list.
- Any.do - Simple interface, packed with features, currently the favorite to-do list manager at Lifehacker.
- GitHub Projects - A lesser known feature of GitHub, makes it easy to tie your project management process to your code.
- Hitask - Easy Project and Task Management for Teams.
- KanbanFlow - Kanban method task board with Pomodoro technique.
- Microsoft To Do - Microsoft cloud-based task management application based on Wunderlist technology.
- OmniFocus - A Getting Things Done based task manager for macOS and iOS.
- Paymo - Keep your team aligned and engaged. Manage tasks, create team schedules, track work time, and bill your clients from the same platform.
- Pomolectron - A pomodoro app for your menubar/tray.
- Remember the Milk - Great at managing tags for to-dos and location based tasks.
- Taskade - Simple and collaborative task lists for teams.
- Taskwarrior - An open source command line task manager. Flexible, fast, efficient, and unobtrusive.
- Timely - Automatic time tracking software. Get a flawless digital record of all project and team time, all without the hassle of manual timers and note taking.
- Timing - Automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work and ensures no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.
- Tinido - A beautiful and simple task management app that can also give you insights by showing your completed tasks in a contribution graph similar to the one you find on your GitHub profile.
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Todo.txt - Tired of having
complicated apps to organize your tasks? Todo.txt is a technique
that uses a single
.txt
file to help you get the job done. - Todoist - Powerful and cross-platform productivity tool.
- Topydo - A powerful todo list application using the todo.txt format, positioned between todo.txt CLI and Taskwarrior.
- Trello - Kanban method task board.
- Tweek - Super Simple To Do list and Weekly Task Management.
- VivifyScrum - Agile project management app for teams that deliver. Customizable Scrum and Kanban boards.
⏳Habit Trackers
- Emoji Log - Calm, emoji-based tracker for arbitrary things that doesn’t use streaks.
- Everyday - Form new habits by doing things every day.
- Habitica - Complete your real life daily goals in a role play game (previously called HabitRPG).
- HabitBull - Premium habit tracker.
- Loop Habit Tracker - An Android app for creating and maintaining good habits.
- Waka Time - Open source plugin for knowing exactly how long you spend coding.
☁️File Management
- Box - Very good cloud storage solution for business customers.
- Dropbox - Simple, elegant, and versatile cloud storage solution.
- Google Drive - Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
- Mega - A very generous (50G from the get go) and highly secure cloud storage solution.
- Nextcloud - The self-hosted productivity platform that keeps you in control.
- OneDrive - Best cloud storage solution for Windows users.
- pCloud - A cloud storage solution with a strong focus on security.
🔐Password Manager
🧠Mind Maps
- iMindMap [Desktop / Paid] - Mind-mapping, brainstorming and project planning software
- XMind [Multi-platform] - Full-featured mind-mapping and brainstorming tool
- MindMeister [Multi-platform / Freemium] - Online and collaboration-focused brainstorming software;
- Mindly [Mobile / Freemium] - On-the-go app to organize your inner universe;
- TheBrain [Multi-platform / Freemium] - Software for intelligent and creative note-taking
💻Screen Capturing
- ShareX - Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool.
⚙️Techniques
- Eat the frog - Best for managing procrastination.
- Must, Should, Want - Need to prioritize tasks, but tend to go for lists over graphs.
- SMART Method - Are in the early phases of a big project and need to strategize before jumping in.
- Action Method - Need to turn creative brainstorming into an actionable to-do list.
- Time Blocking - Find small tasks and interruptions are taking over the whole day.
- Biological Prime Time - Love data and self-experimentation and want to optimize their days for maximum productivity.
- Getting Things Done - Have a lot of loose ends rattling around in the brain and need a way organize it all.
- Systemist - Feel overwhelmed with the number of things they need to do.
- Medium Method - Love the concreteness of pen and paper to-do lists.
- Pomodoro/Sprints - Desperately need to get something done and have a tendency to get distracted.
- Don’t Break the Chain - Want to adopt new daily habits.
- Eisenhower Matrix - Like graphs, have trouble seeing things in black-and-white, and would rather prioritize on a continuum than stuff tasks into a few categories.
- Agile Results - Are goal-oriented and/or are tackling complex projects and need to keep to a timeline.
📖Books to read
- Deep Work by Cal Newport - Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task.
- Getting Things Done by David Allen - A very simple and efficient time-management method.
- The 5 Choices by Kory Kogon - An all around productivity methodology dealing with prioritization, scheduling, technology and energy management.
- The PARA Method - Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life
- Building a Second Brain - A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
🗓Calendar Apps
Coming soon
📭Email Management
Coming soon