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Best productivity tools

Ranked by a formula we publish in full, not by who paid. 6 tools considered.

  1. 1
    Obsidian

    Local markdown notes that link to each other and outlive any company.

    Freemium · 12 upvotes

  2. 2
    Raycast

    A launcher that replaced Spotlight and then replaced half your menu bar.

    Freemium · 11 upvotes

  3. 3
    Notion

    Docs, databases and wikis that bend to whatever shape your team wants.

    Freemium · 10 upvotes

  4. 4
    Todoist

    A task list that survives being used every day for a decade.

    Freemium · 10 upvotes

  5. 5
    Linear

    Issue tracking fast enough that people actually keep it up to date.

    Freemium · 9 upvotes

  6. 6
    Superhuman

    Email and documents in one workspace, with an AI assistant called Go.

    Paid · 4 upvotes

This order comes from the published formula. Paid placement never enters it, the ranking code cannot import the payments code, and the build fails if it does.