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Productivity

6 products in productivity, ranked by the votes people cast.

Obsidian

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

ProductivityFreemium

Raycast

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

ProductivityFreemium

Notion

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

ProductivityFreemium

Todoist

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

ProductivityFreemium

Linear

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

ProductivityFreemium

Superhuman

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

ProductivityPaid

The software people keep open all day. It splits by what it refuses to do. Notion bends to any shape, which makes it excellent for a team that has agreed on one and painful for a team that has not. Linear is the opposite: it holds a strong opinion about how issues should work and stays fast enough that people actually update them. Obsidian keeps notes as markdown files on your own disk, so they outlive the company that made the editor. Todoist has survived a decade of daily use by not being clever about it. Raycast starts as a launcher and gradually absorbs the things you used to open menus for. Superhuman rebuilds email around the keyboard. None of these makes anyone more productive on its own, and the ones that stick are usually the ones that removed a decision rather than added a feature.

Questions about productivity tools

Notion or Obsidian for personal notes?
Obsidian if you care about owning the files and reading them in twenty years, since the notes are plain markdown in a folder you control. Notion if the notes need to be databases, shared with other people, or connected to a team's work. The trade-off is ownership against collaboration, and it is a real one.
Why do teams move from a general tool to a dedicated issue tracker?
Because a flexible tool lets every person model the work differently, and a tracker does not. Once a team is large enough that a shared definition of 'in progress' matters more than the freedom to invent one, a dedicated tracker starts paying for itself.
Is a keyboard-driven email client worth the learning curve?
For people who spend hours a day in email, usually. The gain is not typing speed but removing the pause before each decision. For people who process twenty messages a day, the curve costs more than it returns.
What is a launcher and why would I replace Spotlight?
A launcher opens applications and files from a keystroke. Tools like Raycast add clipboard history, window management, snippets and extensions that talk to the services you use, so a lot of small trips to a browser tab stop happening.

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