Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use?

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SelfControl

#Time Management #Time Tracking #Pomodoro Timer 75 social mentions

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everyday.app

I 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.

#Habit Building #Habit Tracker #Personal Productivity 30 social mentions

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Things

As context: I live with a partner and run a SaaS with a handful of contractors. I think this is important context, because most productivity tools and systems fall down when you have to introduce state outside of your control, and half your time is spent syncing your to-do list with your company's JIRA board or whatever. I run my life pretty much entirely inside of Things (https://culturedcode.com/things/). It has just enough functionality that I can track and record things easily without getting bogged down in the meta-work; I've used it for five years without complaint or wandering eye. Other notes: - I follow GTD's philosophy pretty closely (next action, weekly review, that kind of thing.) The book is a little fluffy and some of the concepts are dated at this point, but worth perusing. - Any state that has to be shared with someone other than me either goes to Apple Notes (friends and family) or Github (<a href="https://github.com/buttondown-email/roadmap/issues">https://github.com/buttondown-email/roadmap/issues</a>) - No productivity system is going to solve all of your problems. It can make you execute better, but you are not One Perfect App away from the ideal version of yourself; when evaluating tools or systems, be sure to focus on very specific, concrete problems ("I am bad at following up with people after meetings", "I don't pace myself throughout the week", "It's hard for me to close out large projects") as opposed to nebulous ones ("I wish I had more time in the day", "I don't know which side project to work on").

#Project Management #Task Management #Todos 54 social mentions

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Sunsama

Https://sunsama.com - inbox for Slack 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/ Stopping 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".

#Project Management #Group Chat & Notifications #Task Management 17 social mentions

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Taskwarrior

I’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.

#Project Management #Task Management #Todos 53 social mentions

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Productivity Power Tools

I use https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ It has all I want for a note-taking app, since it's my editor all of my shortcuts and snippets work, the notes are simple markdown that I can back up easily using git. To start a daily note, I can write /today and it will set the correct date. In combination with the Excalidraw extension I can create new digrams, simply by ending the files with .excalidraw.png and quickly embed them on any markdown with preview, while being editable. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pomdtr.excalidraw-editor Linking notes and having a connection graph, like obsidian it's incredibly useful, making me go back more often to old note to remember or refine them.

#Regular Expressions #Programming Tools #Development 356 social mentions

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Foam

I use https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ It has all I want for a note-taking app, since it's my editor all of my shortcuts and snippets work, the notes are simple markdown that I can back up easily using git. To start a daily note, I can write /today and it will set the correct date. In combination with the Excalidraw extension I can create new digrams, simply by ending the files with .excalidraw.png and quickly embed them on any markdown with preview, while being editable. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=pomdtr.excalidraw-editor Linking notes and having a connection graph, like obsidian it's incredibly useful, making me go back more often to old note to remember or refine them.

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions

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one sec

I use https://conjure.so as a habit, time and goal tracker. Similar story to you, I built it for my own needs and to explore some ideas! I’m a big admirer of Everyday, it’s an extremely well designed and thoughtful app both on web and mobile, what you’ve built is amazing! I’ve been using https://akiflow.com/ on my phone to add friction to opening apps I want to limit time on and try reduce distractions.

#iPhone #Health And Fitness #Productivity 38 social mentions

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Upbase.io

#Project Management #Task Management #Remote Team Management 1 social mentions