HACKER Q&A
📣 hugodutka

Which tools increased your productivity the most?


For me it's been Gitpod (https://gitpod.io). It's like CI for development environments. It integrates with Git and lets me build my project continuously, and then create a containerized environment with the latest artifacts that I connect to with my IDE. I like it so much I decided to build a self-hosted alternative. It's at https://hocus.dev if you want to check it out.

What are yours?


  👤 BlameKaneda Accepted Answer ✓
Todoist - Browser extension and phone app for checking off todo items. I get a slight dopamine hit every time I complete something.

Obsidian - Note-taking desktop app with a nice UI, good extensions, tagging, and more.

Leechblock - Browser extension that blocks certain sites during specified time periods. I've got a similar app on my phone, but its free version only allows 3 apps to be blocked.


👤 palashkulsh
- jira-cmd (which I maintain) for managing jira at work - org mode for planning - plantuml for making personal diagrams - Emacs for text editing - gnucash for finance - ublock origin browser extension for zapping out certain css elements which get attention - stylebot for changing css of pages to lower the cognitive load of those websites have

👤 gorbak25
Toggl. Generally having a feedback loop on what you spend your time is the perfect tool for self improvement.

👤 bad_username
Obsidian transformed the way I work with information - personal and work related.

Mylifeorganized for infinitely customizable, hierarchical, advanced GTD-like to do lists.

Atimelogger (Android) for time logging, to see where my time goes and prevent procrastination.

OBS studio and Otter.ai for meeting recordings and notes.


👤 hnthrowaway0315
For me it's hardware: two large monitors give me one screen for IDE, one for VScode and the native for references. I also desperately need a good mouse -- tried one defualt/basic logitech one and a "vertical" one but neither is really satisfactory.

On software side a good IDE is really helpful. Jetbrain really excels in this field.


👤 avinassh
Goland by Jetbrains for Go. It's such a joy to use and makes me highly productive.

👤 warkanlock
by far, without being a computer snob, vim

It's incredible how far you can get with a good editor config


👤 sourcecodeplz
I know some are tired of this but... chatgpt by far.