Tools to Increase Daily Productivity and Simplify My Job

A list of tried and tested free tools in MAC, Linux and windows to increase daily productivity and simplify my job

Tools

Alfred 3

Alfred is an award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.

Amphetamine

Amphetamine is a little app that lives in your menu bar. With Amphetamine, you can effortlessly override your energy saver settings and keep your Mac awake.

aText

aText accelerates your typing in any application by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define. Save your priceless time, stop typing the same thing over and over. Also known as text template, text shortcut, text expansion tool.

Authy

Authy is enable 2FA for your favorite sites. simple to setup, secure cloud backup, multi device support. Read authy vs google authenticator for more details.

BitBar

The BitBar app lets you put the output from any script or program right in your Mac OS X menu bar. And it’s completely free. An impressive number of plugins have already been contributed by a wide range of developers just like you, and this site makes it easy to find them.

Brew

Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple’s macOS operating system.

Cheatsheet

Cheatsheet gets a list of all active short cuts of the current application by just holding the ⌘-Key a bit longer. It’s as simple as that.

Cmder

Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over absence of usable console emulator on Windows. It is based on ConEmu with major config overhaul, comes with a Monokai color scheme, amazing clink (further enhanced by clink-completions) and a custom prompt layout.

Disk Inventory X

Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called treemaps.

Epic Browser

Epic is private and secure web browser blocks ads, trackers, fingerprinting, cryptomining, ultrasound signaling and more. Stop 600+ tracking attempts in an average browsing session. Turn on network privacy with free VPN (servers in 8 countries).

FFMpeg

ffmpeg is complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. It’s a powerful command line tool and easy to use coverter as well.

Flycut

Flycut is a clean and simple clipboard manager for Mac OSX

Gnomon

Gnomon is a command line utility, a bit like moreutils’s ts, to prepend timestamp information to the standard output of another command. Useful for long-running processes where you’d like a historical record of what’s taking so long.

Grammarly

Grammarly makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free. There are plugins for most of browser types and desktops.

Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of OS X. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user.

iTerm2

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Itsycal

Itsycal is a tiny menu bar calendar. If you want, it will display your events as a companion to the Mac Calendar app. You can also create and delete events.

JDownloader2

JDownloader is a free, open-source download management tool with a huge community of developers that makes downloading as easy and fast as it should be. Users can start, stop or pause downloads, set bandwith limitations, auto-extract archives and much more. It’s an easy-to-extend framework that can save hours of your valuable time every day!

Jing

Jing is a screencasting program by the TechSmith Corporation. The software takes a picture or video of small size and high quality of the user’s screen. Also, allow to uploads it to the Web, FTP, computer or clipboard.

Jsonlint

Jsonlint is JSON parser and validator with a CLI.

Launchy

Launchy is a free cross-platform utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Maccy

Maccy is a lightweight clipboard manager for macOS. It keeps the history of what you copy and lets you quickly navigate, search, and use previous clipboard contents.

MultiTail

MultiTail allows you to monitor logfiles and command output in multiple windows in a terminal, colorize, filter and merge.

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows environment, its use is governed by GPL License. It has many useful plugins which can be installed on need basis.

OBS Studio

OBS Studio is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

Oh-My-Zsh

Oh-My-Zsh is an open source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes and much more.

Pygments

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.

Rectangle

Rectangle is a window management app based on Spectacle, written in Swift. Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas.

ScreenToGif

ScreenToGif is screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor for Windows.

Spectacle

Spectacle moves and resizes windows with ease. Window control with simple and customizable keyboard shortcuts

TinyTake

TinyTake is a free screen capture & video recording software for Microsoft Windows & Mac. With TinyTake, you can capture images and videos of your computer screen, add comments and share them with others in minutes. Videos captured are usually small size and good quality.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a light-weight source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring.

VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. You can also convert/compress audios and videos in the app.

WinDirStat

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows.

ZSH

The Z-shell is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a powerful command interpreter for shell scripting.