69 Stories To Learn About Productivity Tools

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1. Top 10 Productivity Apps to Make 2020 Your Most Productive Year Yet

Welcome to Part 2 of the Tech Productivity Series

2. How Task Management Software Helps Achieve Productivity in a Post-Pandemic World

Before the pandemic, roughly 30% of the part-time workforce was working remotely. It is estimated this will expand to at least 48% post-pandemic. Until the pandemic is over, it’s unclear exactly how much of the full-time workforce that can work remotely will continue to do so.

3. 5 Best Online Tools to Compress and Optimize Your Images

Here are the 5 Best Online Tools to Compress and Optimize Your Images.

4. On Productivity Tools And Time Management With Julien Quintard, Founder Of Routine

An interview with Julien Quintard on why he is building Routine and why productivity tools as we know it is going to change drastically in the a few quarters.

5. Maybe, Just Maybe, Writing Your Passwords On Paper Isn't So Bad?

This is not a joke. Stationery stores and selling pocket notebooks with the word "PASSWORDS" written across the front. Inside are pages, with alphabetized tabs and spaces for you to record the website name, the username (login), and your password. Plus a space for notes.

6. The Placeholder Tools that Boost Productivity for Developers and Designers

7. Boost Your Productivity as a Developer With These 10 Tools

Productivity is one of the important metrics for developers. Stay organized with this list of the essential tools for a developer to increase your productivity.

8. 10 Best Web Dev Tools of 2021

Top 10 Web Dev Tools in 2021

9. Startup Interview with Henry Shapiro, Co-founder at Reclaim.ai

Reclaim is an intelligent calendar assistant that enables you to block adaptive time for anything you care about. Vote for us for HackerNoon's SOTY!

10. How to Merge PDFs Without Adobe Acrobat

For a task or assignment, different members are responsible for different parts. So, it's very common that the team must conclude the respective results at last. If their results are in the PDF formats, they must merge the PDFs to reach the final result. There are still many other occasions that we need to merge PDF files.

11. 22 AI Tools You Should Know About

List of top trending AI tools

12. How to Stay Focused When Coding: 8 Productivity Tips

Your well-being, routines, motivations and how effectively you plan, all play a role in your ability to remain focused while coding.

13. apibeats: Get Notified on Slack When The API Changes

apibeats is an API maintenance platform that lets backend and frontend developers collaborate, and notifies teams on Slack & Email when the API changes in any way. apibeats provides a complete environment for you to interact with your APIs. It lets you create collections of endpoints and watch them for uptime/downtime and changes in structure, test your collections by making requests without writing any code and document your API collections.

14. How Time Tracking is Reshaping the Future of Work

If you are running a business or just started your own startup, it’s important you keep an eye out on every minute detail. In case you are hiring designers, software developers, and/or a team for project management, tracking total working hours is probably what you should be doing.

15. 15 Apps that Can Make You Productive

Here, 15 amazing apps have been listed for increasing our productivity.

16. 15 Best Project Management Tools

Project management systems are supposed to make the life of teams easier and the work process faster and more efficient.

17. MakeMySummary Software Update: June 2020

We recently released an update for MakeMySummary. The following are the highlights of the update.

18. 🏅year in Review: Tools That Helped my Productivity as a Software Engineer

As a software engineer, you have to find the perfect mix of tools and templates that can help make you more efficient in your day-to-day tasks.

19. 4 Productivity Hacks That Yield Quick Results

Having trouble hitting deadlines and staying focused? Well, have no fear! This article will introduce four productivity hacks that almost anyone can implement immediately and see fast results.

20. Writing a Slack Bot that Responds to Action Commands

I recently wrote a slack bot that responds to action commands (like /ech yolo ) but I ran into some trouble finding exactly how to do this, so I’m documenting it here for other peeps to find. The exact error I hit was /echo failed with the error "dispatch_failed" .

21. NPX Introduction: Fast Work With NPM Package Binaries

With Node.js, building CLI utilities and development tools have gotten so much easier.

22. Essential Productivity Tips Every Software Developer Should Know

Here are the game changing productivity hacks, tools, and tips that have helped me most as a software developer.

23. 17 Killer Web Apps to Increase Productivity 🚀💯

24. 5 Team Communication Tools That Will Skyrocket Your Productivity

Teams come in all sizes and these days from all parts of the world. Geography is no longer a limitation with messaging tools that can connect you with anyone in the world. The right communication tools can skyrocket your team’s productivity, as ability to easily share information and ideas with all your stakeholders is key to driving productivity.

25. Windows 11's New Focus Mode Is Pretty Useful

The new Focus Mode feature is a useful tool that helps you get more productivity out of Windows 11 in a simple way. Though that simplicity does cut both ways

26. How to Improve Developer Productivity

Become more productive as a developer in the next 10 minutes using researched backed tips and hacks.

27. Summarizing Youtube Videos and News/Blog articles

I made a new app/service that lets users summarize the deluge of info that comes our way every day. Its unambiguously named MakeMySummary.

28. Introducing CatalyzeX: A Browser Extension for Machine Learning

Andrew Ng likes it, you probably will too!

29. How Nonprofits Can Get Adobe Discounts via TechSoup: FAQs

Learn more about Adobe for Nonprofits, including information on eligibility, product licensing, downloading and installing software, and more.

30. How to Hack Your Team: Top 5 Tools For Team Management Automation in 2021

Wondering how to increase your remote team's productivity? These tools will help.

31. Top 10 Productivity Apps For iOS To Take Your Productivity To The Next Level

Find the best productivity apps for iPhone or iPad. These best iPhone productivity apps help you get more things done faster and more efficiently than before.

32. Mind Hacking: Using Technology to Rewire Your Brain Like a Monk

Not so long ago my life was an exercise in excel spreadsheets, over-scheduled phone calls, and constant emails. I was working in a high-pressure venture capital job, and putting myself in a state of mental fragmentation.

33. 4 Reasons You Shouldn't Use MoSCoW for Product Prioritization

I often see MoSCoW being used to prioritise product development work, but for anything mildly complex (almost anything, really), and especially any product with more than one customer, it isn’t appropriate. Here’s why.

34. How to Install RStudio on the WSL System

If you are using Windows and don’t want to use the RStudio client on the Windows side, this method will work perfectly.

35. 6 Chrome Extensions That You’ve Never Heard Of But Should Try Out

There are two types of people when it comes to using browser extensions. You have them all or you have them none. The adventure starts with just one install button. Then, you're lost in the extension world.  You’re adding a new one to your browser week by week. But what are the best Google Chrome extensions that you need to have?

36. Top 10 Javascript File Managers

File management is a helpful tool in any business application. Here is an overview of the most functional, elegant, and popular JavaScript File Managers ready to be built into the client-server solution. Even if you do not have a direct need to work with files, you can borrow the classic file explorer interface for other tasks. For instance, there are some cases of the classic interface becoming the basis for a new web application in this article.

37. And Then He Said: Let's Fly Like an Eagle!

Hi there, I'm Vadim, founder of Wedding Planning Assitant, and this is my three short stories about that.

38. How To Choose A Time Tracking Solution For Your Business: A Step By Step Guide

As the impact of the COVID 19 epidemic on the global economy and societies starts to feel like less of a momentary blip on the radar and more of the new normal that we are all going to have to adjust to and get used to, people are getting used to the idea of working from home or remotely in some capacity. One of the technologies that have enabled this to happen and thus proven indispensable to the pandemic economy is time tracking solution.

39. The Fintech CTO's Guide To Remote Team Tools and Reviews

Remote culture has never been so in demand before. The pandemic has changed the way we thought the world was likely to evolve in the nearest future. However, changes always go hand in hand with opportunities.

40. How Did Pocket Create a Habit Forming Product?

A simple analyses of Pocket app using the infamous Hook Framework

41. 10 Features Where Coda Is Better Than Notion

Notion vs. Coda: a look at 10 features in Coda that are better than Notion from the perspective of a Coda employee. This article has been updated for 2022.

42. 5 Productivity Tools Every Solopreneur Needs

This pandemic is the perfect time to focus on your side hustle

43. Productivity 101: How to Implement the Pomodoro Productivity Technique

If you’re looking to be more productive in your life, you may have heard of the Pomodoro productivity hack or technique.

44. 6 Incredible Productivity Tools for Programmers

Productivity is key when it comes to getting work done with a smile. Burndowns are natural, here is how to minimize them and keep hustling.

45. Invoicing Tech Can Boost Brand Appeal

Your brand is the essence of your company. It’s what your customers perceive you to be, and it’s how you portray your business to the world.

46. The Art of Mastering Atomic Habits

If you want to change your life, you need to start with your habits. Atomic habits are the building blocks that make up our lives.

47. 5 Small Business Technologies You Can’t Afford to Ignore

In an ever-changing world, staying up to date with modern business technologies can provide business owners with the leverage they need to be successful. This means being prosperous in their ventures and relevant in the competitive market. In most cases, using the correct types of technology will facilitate greater efficiency and even productivity.

48. Celebrating 10,000+ stars on GitHub repository⭐ ❤️️

Postwoman is celebrating the milestone of reaching 10,000 GitHub stars 🎉

49. 5 Tech Tools to Sharpen Your Creativity

Creativity is important today because it helps us innovate and think outside the box. Knowing how to use your creativity can open up a world of opportunities, so it's worthwhile taking the time to sharpen these skills with the right tools.

50. Get Rid Of Your Self-Imposed Restrictions: An App Review of Freedom

Want to improve your focus so you can get more done? Stop relying on self-discipline and use the Freedom app instead.

51. Without Digital Adoption, Your Enterprise will Struggle

It’s clear to everyone that we’re living in a digital age. In a time when people expect to run their lives through their smartphones, competitive enterprises have no choice but to adopt digital tools.

52. 13 Must-Have Tools for Content Marketing in 2020

Hey there! If you’re looking for the best Content Marketing tool for your Business, stick here! Because I’ve made a list of tools for you that you need for your Content Marketing in 2020. I’ve used a lot of tools for my Content Marketing and shortlisted a few that are a must-have if you are to market your business through social media and Content Marketing.

53. 17 Apps to Boost Developer Productivity

To help you build the ultimate workflow, we went looking for the developer productivity tools that are currently trending in coding communities.

54. 5 New AI Tools That Can Help You To Be More Productive

How much of your productive time is taken away by all those meaningless news, stories and activities? Especially if you are a high performing executive or professional, how productive would you be if you weren’t distracted? We lose a lot of time on the activities that seem to be crucially important, while they are not. Although social media and numerous web-based communication platforms have definitely made communication a much less bothersome task, it is simply mind boggling to realize just how much of our time is spent on social media.

55. A Critical UX Review of Trello's New Features

Trello recently launched new features and a business version. This could only mean one thing. It's time for a design review.

56. The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next?

Productivity software is indispensable for all of us. Dedicated tools for creating spreadsheets, writing down notes, managing our to-dos etc. ensure that we are productive in our professions. Incumbent vendors (e.g. Microsoft, Google) have dominated this space for many years — yet, there is a chance for new players to enter the stage. New challengers such as the E-Mail client Superhuman or the note-taking tool Roam Research can compete by developing highly opinionated products which deliberately omit flexibility. Instead, the software is stringently crafted around a very particular way of approaching a process, which is inherently seen as superior by the firm.

57. How to Use Dora Metrics to Become an Elite Team

Tradeoff between speed and quality is a myth.

58. How to Create a Habit Tracker in Notion

Why Even Track Your Habits?

59. Automating Pull Request Merges with Mergify

Mergify is a tool that helps prioritize, queuing, and automatically merge your pull requests.

60. 20+ Extraordinary Apps For Remote Teams

I am sure that you already have Zoom, Slack and Asana on your computer. But daily office life is more than written tasks and planned meetings. There are lunches with your team, spontaneous talks near the water cooler, common tasks and goals you want to acheive. It’s your comfortable workplace and it by itself motivates you to be productive. Just look at the bunch of stickers on the wall — big things are waiting for you!

61. How To Improve Concentration: 2021 Edition

How to improve your focus - especially as a software developer. Book review of Deep Work by Cal Newport.

62. Upgrade Your Note-taking With Roam Research

“Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the practice of capturing the ideas and insights we encounter in our daily life, whether from personal experience, from books and articles, or from our work, and cultivating them over time to produce more creative, higher quality work.”

63. Notion: Superior Productivity For All

Notion is an All-In-One workspace. Notion’s platform allows you to create task-oriented lists and projects, wikis, databases, lightweight CRM’s, tables & more!

64. InVision Gains 2 Million Users, Adds Freehand Templates (Interview)

After a year that included 40% growth in user base and a 130% surge in demand for online whiteboard products, InVision has released an update with Freehand template gallery.

65. Top 10 Business Development Tools in 2020 and 2021

Slack, Rocketbolt, and Trello are among the best business development tools in 2021. In this article, we'll go over 10 tools your business should consider.

66. 6 Tools to Help SMBs Hack Productivity in 2020

The approach of the new year is always a great time to revisit all the awesome things your SMB has achieved and pat yourself in the back about how great things are running.

67. The Zen of Python: As Related by Masters

The Zen of Python saw light for the first time in 1999. It's one of the many aspects that adds to the awesomeness of Python. It's a set of expressions which corners the spirit of the language. It was enounced by Tim Peters, a reputable software engineer, master Pythonista and Python's 'most prolific and tenacious core developer' in the words of none other than Guido [18]. This article bases itself mostly on the saying of core devs and highly reputable members. It makes a great gift to all those interested in the history of the sysadmin script which took the world by (pleasent) surprise.

68. All You Need To Know About SharePoint Migration

Learn how you can simplify SharePoint Migration process easily with the best SharePoint Migration Tools.

69. The Best 75 Evernote Alternatives: Complete Review

Has Evernote become a unicorn that has stopped caring about its core users while trying to attract broader markets?

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