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 few categories and tools that I use.

You can find that 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 doodle 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.

Don’t try to read that, I’ve explained this script below.

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 Editor, IntelliJ IDEA

For Smartphone (Android) : Spck code editor, Qouda 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 suit, Microsoft Office, WPS office (For smartphone)

Editing tools

For photo editing : Picsart

For Video editing :

FIlmora (Desktop), Power Director (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.

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Website Collection tools

Pocket and chrome bookmarks, blog

Games

Minecraft, Mini militia, Special force 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.

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Thanks for reading this far.