Dashy — This was the top-clicked tool in this newsletter in 2023. It's an open-source, highly customizable, easy-to-use, privacy-friendly dashboard app to build the perfect dashboard with status checks, keyboard shortcuts, dynamic widgets, and more.
daily.place — I've featured a lot of task-based apps in the past year. This one is a single place to focus on your daily tasks and includes a keyboard-friendly Pomodoro timer, to-dos, background sounds, and optional dark mode.
Duck — This is the only note-taking app to make the list. It's free and is a little different from other note-taking apps, providing chat-based features, not for collaboration, but for your writing, thinking, and recording.
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focus.txt — A simple, text-based, and short-lived daily planner that allows you to use live variables for date, time, check, and quote (the latter of which will auto-insert an inspiring quotation).
Reactive Resume — Resume tools always seem to do well. This is a free and open-source resume builder that makes the mundane tasks of creating, updating, and sharing your resume easy, with no tracking or ads, and enables you to import data from LinkedIn.
Merlin — I've included a good amount of ChatGPT tools over the past year, and this was the most popular one. It's a Chrome extension that adds ChatGPT to all websites you visit, to instantly translate and summarize text, speed up social media replies, help with quick email replies, get code explanations, and more.
