Productivity

Pretty cool and easy to use.

Debbie (110 karma) recommends

Trello

Great knowledge base online

Cards sometimes look too cluncky

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What are the best project management tools for freelancers?

Freelancers work a lot on emails while dealing and managing their projects. I like that Drag organizes your work right from inside Gmail, so for Gmail users it can work really well!

Debbie (110 karma) recommends

Drag

Personal organization

Seamlessly integrated into Gmail

Don't have a mobile app

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What are the best cross-platform collaborative writing apps?

My company works entirely on G Suite and one of the reasons we chose it was because of Google Docs and Google sheets. Simply great!

Debbie (110 karma) recommends

Google Docs

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What are the best desktop web browsers?

I love Chrome and cannot imagine myself using another browser.

Debbie (110 karma) recommends

Google Chrome

Good performance

Simple user interface

Plenty of extensions

Syncs between devices

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What are the best Linux PDF editors?

I have been a long time user of Adobe Acrobat Pro, however, after using PDF Studio Pro, I find it to be a way better application. Highly recommend.

Amy recommends

PDF Studio Pro

Tons of features

Reasonably priced for feature set

Several easy-to-use resources

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What are the best Linux app launchers?

DreamerIapetus recommends

Ulauncher

Fast and clean.

Supports fuzzy search

Themeable

Supports extensions in Python

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What are the best encrypted/secure cross-platform to-do apps?

Easy to use with good design

FerventAiakos (60 karma) recommends

Momentum

from 2000 ft to ground level

Realtime synch

Specifically designed for GTD

Projects and Tasks can be endlessly nested

HTTPS and end-to-end-encryption

Projects and Task can be endless nested

collaborative working feature

In Beta (development)

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What are the best ad-free & free apps for mind mapping for Windows and Android that sync with Dropbox?

The reason why I continue using GitMind is that it doesn't waste a lot of time like XMind and other heavy apps. Actually, I don't complicated and gorgeous templates for a mind map. GitMind is of a little bit of commercial style, which satisfied me.

Sally (200 karma) recommends

GitMind

Yesterday

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What are the best video players for Windows? (precision, hotkeys, timeline)

Has a feature to remove black bars

WiseOrcus recommends

Pot Player

This week

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What are the best macOS web browsers?

Vivaldi is simple to use, easy to customize beyond any other browser, and offers a free email account. It will install extensions from the Chrome web-store and has a great community for sharing ideas and experiences for trouble shooting and

ResponsibleAlthaea recommends

Vivaldi

Lots of power-user functionality that's often omitted from other browsers

Tab behaviour can be customised

Access to Chrome extensions

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What are the best free accounting applications?

Free, open source and online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers.

RickZeeland (91.7K karma) recommends

Akaunting

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What are the best programming text editors?

The best code editor for C/C++ ....offer really a friendly-user interface and built-in terminal is awesome which is really helpful in competitive programming... Secondly about VS Code, It's good but extension take some time to load on startup.

ComposedCleta recommends

Geany

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What are the best Linux desktop environments?

It has its good and bad sides...but overall I consider it the best - side by side with XFCE.

CozzyTux (290 karma) recommends

Gnome 3

Graphic apps 'feel smoother' on gnome than on KDE plasma

High resultion screens, multi monitor, content creation

Integrates with most Google Services

All the major players in the Linux ecosystem have finally collated on Gnome

Touchscreen friendly

Gnome-Tweak-Tool is great

Online account management

Great for high dpi displays

Powerful search

Does not get in the way

Some GUI controls are much larger than on other desktops

Simple and easy to use

Extension system is weakly integrated into the environment

Extensions can break whole Gnome desktop

Full screen start menu

Some settings are not where the user would expect it

Continuous customization and extension issues

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What are the best news aggregators?

BlazeOlmo (180 karma) recommends

LastPass

lol

Password one-click change

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What are the best cross-platform contact management tools?

Free and easy to use with google sync and import/export

Lokman (24.3K karma) recommends

Google Contacts

Preinstalled on android

Free

Allows dealing with duplicates easily

Easily transfers between devices

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What are the best window managers for Linux?

Highly extendable and simple window manager. Bspwm is a great window manager for those looking for a lightweight but powerful tiling window manager. BSPWM is also scriptable and gives you a great api and json data.

IntelligentClytius recommends

bspwm

Live configuration updates

Unix Philosophy

Drag&drop / Mouse support for re-size/move

No compromises between aesthetics and function

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What are the best cross-platform productivity tools?

I really love using zzBots, but I also considered using Zapier, or IFTTT. After using zzBots for a short time, it definitely comes out on top for me.

Chris (280 karma) recommends

zzBots

Works Across Multiple Platforms

User Friendly Interface