Freeter — This was the most-clicked tool in this newsletter in 2024. It's an all-in-one organizer app for Mac, Windows, and Linux to help you manage projects, switch between tasks faster, stay focused on a single project, use widgets for quick access, and more.
Knowledge — The open-source tools always do well. This one is a native app for Mac, Window, and Linux, powered by ChatGPT, for saving, searching, accessing, exploring, and chatting with all of your favorite websites, documents, and files.
Cool Stuff — A bookmarking tool for those who constantly email things to themselves or take lots of screenshots. Available for web and iOS, with Safari and Chrome extensions available.
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Boxio — Yet another native app that makes the list. It's a native app for Mac and Windows that adds a simple sidebar to organize your projects into 'boxes', each of which is a digital home for a given project.
Calendar — This is timely for an end-of-year post and it did well when I included it last January. It's a printable single-page calendar that displays all of the year’s dates on a single page and will automatically fit on a single sheet of paper of any size that you can take wherever you go.
Glance — This is a Go-based, self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place, including RSS feeds, Subreddit posts, weather, bookmarks, YouTube videos from specific channels, stocks, GitHub releases, and lots more.
Busy Status Bar — One of the few pieces of hardware that I included over the past year. It's a productivity multi-tool device with an LED pixel screen with a personal busy message, built-in Pomodoro timer and apps, and it's customizable, open-source, and hacker-friendly.
