What tools do you use to boost productivity?
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Posted on May 7
What tools do you use to boost productivity?
Hey guys! I want to boost my productivity and I'd love to know what do you usually use as a developer. This is my list of tools and tricks:
- Oh My Zsh with autosuggestion and git plugin
- GitHub CLI. Usually I use
gh branchto switch between branches as you can use Fuzzy Finder here - Aliases, like
workto open work project,opensourceto open my opensource projects folder
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For a long time I have been using keystroke launchers to quickly open applications.
I got used to the Alt + Space combination and use it in all operating systems.
For Windows I find the best ueli.app/
For Linux ulauncher.io/
I love it, I've been using Spotlight for a long period, and now I'm trying to use Raycast, but the only thing that I'm using now is Clipboard history and searching npm packages. It's definitely cool way to boost your speed ๐
you can do this with powertoys now, or even with just the built in search (you can customize what you actually want to show up in the results)
Ya, I also use that, but KDE plasma has krunner inbuilt which works better than this. And I just love it. It seriously boosts productivity
+1 for launchers, major timesaver. Itโs built-in for OS X, but thereโs also AlfredApp that allows for some insane customizations and scripting moves.
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GitHub Copilot has been pretty valuable. I used to be more critical of it but it has improved substantially. I'd estimate it writes close to 20% of my code for me now, plus a lot of my comments.
I've tried to use GitHub Copilot and this thing is really cool. I'm not using it at the moment, because someday I removed the extension, but I'm thinking about installing this again ๐
Interesting. I've been resistant to trying it. What are some of the things it's helping you with?
Can't hurt to try it. It very often successfully guesses what code I want to write. When working in JavaScript, if I have an array and I write const sum = then I expect it will autocomplete arr.reduce((sum, next) => sum + next, 0);. If I have a string and I write const lines = then I expect it will autocomplete str.split('\n');. When I'm lucky it will write entire functions and unit tests for me. It's not always right and you can't use it blindly - you have to read and understand the code. Sometimes looking at its suggestions is a waste of time. But overall I have found it a net positive, I write more code in fewer keystrokes and less time.
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Iโll give it a go. I was concerned that it was going to make me a worse developer by offering bad suggestions lol.
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When I tried Copilot, it was a very different working experience: mostly because I was constantly evaluating if Copilots code suggestion was suitable or not. So I removed the extension
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Yeah. To me it felt like having to coach a Junior dev all the time.
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The most useful productivity tool I've taken to using over the last year is tmuxinator for launching several windows/panes for each project I'm working on.
Besides that, I use a script I wrote to automate setting up any of my agency's projects, almost all of which use a completely different stack from the next.
Oh.. That sounds really cool! I should give a try on this one ๐ Thank you!
Iโve been using tmuxinator for years. Itโs amazing.
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Bunch of VS Code and browser extensions, will make a list if you are interested.
Other than that, I use Notion, Obsidian(rarely), G-Calender, thiscodeworks, cold turkey
Sure! I'd love to see. I think there is always something useful that people are using, but you don't even know about it ๐
Browser extensions:
- Grammarly
- Search by Image
- Pocket(+mobile app)
- ColorZilla
- WhatFont
- Picture-in-Picture Extension
- News Feed Eradicator: Blocks news feed for social media apps
- The Great suspender: suspends tabs after certain time of iactivity
- Wappalyzer
VS Code Extensions:
- ESLint
- Prettier
- Code Spell Checker
- Better Comments
- Error Lense
- Headwind (For Tailwind)
- JS Code snippets
- Live Share
- Markdown Preview
- Regexp Explain
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Thank you for sharing โค๏ธ
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Powershell to automate deployment tasks oh and Obsidian to Journal / Take Notes
You have some scripts that you wrote and just run them, right? Do you use anything like GitHub Actions?
At work i use a jenkins server. I call my powershell scripts from the jenkins job script. I do that so If the jenkins is down i'm still able to run my scripts locally. Also i find it more comfortable to develop the deployment scripts.
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I use almost nothing, for me it feels like I get less productive the more tools and software I use. So I try to keep my environment quite clean and only use the essentials. Easier to set up and start working on new machines too.
More tools not better, I totally agree, but let's say upgrade Zsh with Oh My Zsh is definitely worth it
Ohh yea, definitely. Zsh is one of my essentials, next to vscode and git
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This is a little more specific, but I authored and use Agrippa quite a bit, to auto-generate React components without the boilerplate. It saves a lot of time, definitely compared to creating components by hand (but also compared to snippets).
Sorry for the self-promotion, but I sincerely believe it's great ๐ and it's saved me a lot of time and repetitive effort.
Wow! I didn't expect to see anyone who wrote something on their own and share this tool. Have you thinking about making a website with documentation? I see README and Wiki page, but maybe you have some plans around it ๐ค
Thanks for checking it out!
I actually do have some plans for a proper website for it, but it's a lot of work and progress is quite slow.
Currently working on more features for the tool (more frameworks other than plain React, test file support, etc.) which I'm rather excited about ๐
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No worries! At least you have some information in README ๐ Good luck with project development and be strong ๐ช
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Wow... It's a really huge list and so many things to explore. Thank you ๐
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Few Tools I just love:
- Notion - For all the document related stuff
- Slapdash
- FreeTube - Opensource youtube client
- Github Copilot - your pilot for writing code
- Ferdi - Best software for all communication platforms in 1
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You can use the chrome extension Blackbox to copy text from videos, images, PDFs, etc
Come very handy while watching coding tutorials on YouTube ๐ค
chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/...
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I use dozens of tools that make me more productive. Some worthwhile mentions:
- Todoist - For having a to do list
- Notion - For managing projects and life
- Centered - For task and project time tracking
- Obsidian - For note taking and writing articles
- Google Calendar - For managing events etc...
Obsidian looks like something interesting! I'm going to try this one, thank you for sharing something new ๐
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- Notion for note taking.
- Mac notes for scraps.
- Yadr dot files with a coupe of aliases.
- Vim in terminal.
- Tmuxnator to manage tmux sessions, automata launching projects and switching between active projects.
- RubyMine and IdeaVIM as an IDE with minor customizations.
- Alfred to launch apps, do math and things like that.
- Caps lock is mapped to control.
- Alfred is activated with control-โ making it easy to launch things while having out on the home row.
- Iterm2 is mapped to control-~ allowing for quake like toggling.
- Rectangle window manager for quickly moving windows and splitting them in panes.
Never heard about Yadr. New thing to learn again ๐
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I'm using RayCast as my OS Launcher. And Oh My Zsh for my shell configuration.
But the critical tool is Emacs. I use that for coding and writing; task management and tracking; and any bits of integration that can help me move through my system.
Critical to that is org-roam and transient. Org-roam for personal knowledge management and transient for creating "menus" that allow me to group functions (or help me remember them).
I've started to use RayCast couple weeks ago, I still don't use a lot from it, but I love it โบ๏ธ And I've never heard about Org-roam or Transient. Thank you for mentioning that and now I'm going to learn more about it ๐
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I use the same tools plus my ~/bin is full of scripts and I cannot live without todoist
Awesome ๐ As I see from the comments, scripts are really helpful ๐
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The brain is awesome ๐
The best productivity tool ever invented lol. Thank you prefrontal cortex.
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For me it's mainly my code editor which is vscode, i installed a bunch of extensions to help with that and i have access to github copilot so it's more productive than before
I use vscode too, but I realized I don't have any extensions to boost productivity ๐ค Maybe you can suggest something? The only thing I have is copy-json-path to easily copy path to the value, it really helps me while I'm working with large JSON files ๐
Live server, better comments, prettier, auto import for javascript, html tag auto completion, quokka i will make a list for good extensions i use soon so make sure you check it out
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Awesome! Thank you ๐
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I am limiting the amout of things I pick up. Also, I try to think in advance of my next actions - that really helps.
Interesting ๐ค What if you have to many things to do, how do you handle them? Do you have something like Inbox page in notes application and take everything what you think you can do today or what? How you keep everything sorted out? Because I often loose something. ๐
Well, some time ago I used something called GTD. It helped to be productive, but did not really help to be efficient. These days I use calendar for things I do not want to miss, Scrum/Kanban for work and my own mind - for home.
The thing is that any system will consume your time by having to follow some standards. If you manage to limit amount of things by doing less, but of bigger value, you can concentrate on things which really matter.
In the worst case you can create an account at atlassian website and use their Kanban/Scrum/Project boards. It's free ;)
You might also want to take a look at my article on becoming more productive but not investing time into memorizing IntelliJ shortcuts: dev.to/nikitakoselev/how-to-save-t...
I guess this approach shall work for any decent IDE.
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Oh.. Nice! I'm just using shortcut.com to track all my task ๐ I have really simple workflow but at least it works for me. Have 3 columns (Inbox, Started, and Completed). Thank you for such detailed answer ๐
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None so I don't get distracted ๐๐
๐ I've never even thought about this approach
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Pen paper and extra monitor
I love to track some work on paper, and cross out everything I've done. It's fun and simple ๐
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Vim extension for VSCode.
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iterm2 is really great! I love it
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Was searching for this comment as I also use tabnine but people have been mentioning copilot. I wonder wish one is better?
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