Tools and services that I use to stay productive and creative
We all use hundreds of tools, apps, websites, software and services to keep ourselves productive and creative. Hence I have made a list of a few categories and tools that I use. You can find which tool could be a good option for any specific category and what could be an alternative.
Hi everyone, I’m Ankit Upadhyay. A medical student, programmer, designer that doodles sometimes. Before writing this post, I made a raw list of all the tools to get a rough idea of how long it could be and it went like this.
So here is the list of categories and tools I wrote in that paper.
Productivity tools
Apps, websites and services that I use to stay productive are listed here with categories.
- Blogging
- WordPress, Blogger, Medium
- Code editors
- For desktop: Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, IntelliJ IDEA
- For smartphone (Android): Spck Code Editor, Quoda Code Editor
- Design
- For desktop: Figma
- For smartphone: Canva
- Newsletter service
- Mailchimp
- Email services
- Gmail, Outlook
- Note-taking tools
- Samsung Notes: For short notes related to finance
- AnkiDroid: For flashcards and study notes
- Planner / journal tools
- Notion
- Browser
- For desktop: Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera
- For smartphone: Chrome, DuckDuckGo
- Online learning platform
- YouTube, Sololearn (To learn coding), Udemy, Coursera, edX, MIT OpenCourseWare
- Share market
- Upstox (For trading), YouTube and Internet (For knowledge)
- Office work
- Google Office Suite, Microsoft Office, WPS Office (For smartphone)
- Editing tools
- For photo editing: Picsart
- For video editing: Filmora (Desktop), PowerDirector (Smartphone)
- Freelancing
- Fiverr
- Meetings
- Cisco Webex, Zoom, Google Meet
Creativity tools
I spent my time doing art or origami and other things to keep my creative neurons up and these tools help me in doing so.
- Sketching / doodling / drawing
- Tayasui Sketches, Snapchat, Autodesk SketchBook
- Music player
- Spotify, Poweramp, YouTube
- Camera
- Smartphone camera (16 MP 😉)
- Book reading
- Google Play Books, iBooks, Moon+ Reader Pro
- OTT (Streaming platform)
- Telegram, gogoanime
- Social media
- Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Clubhouse. You can join me there by clicking here
- Website collection tools
- Pocket and Chrome bookmarks, blog
- Games
- Minecraft, Mini Militia, Special Forces Group 2
- Community
- Discord, Slack, GitHub
I will keep this list updated, and I want you to share your list as well so that I can find good alternatives for each category. I also share about such resources in my newsletter and if you like to explore about new things then you’ll love this.
Thanks for reading this far.