Samriddhi Sinha

Opting for Brave over Google Chrome due to its enhanced privacy features, built-in ad blocker. Brave is also Chromium-based, offering Chrome's familiarity and compatibility while minimizing data tracking. Its speed and efficiency outperform Chrome, reducing resource consumption, beneficial for devices with limited capacities.

Lightweight and versatile. Huge library of extensions that enable you to integrate a host of services to your development environment. VS Code's biggest strength is its library of extensions which enables it to directly compete with every single major IDE for almost all major programming languages.

Notion's novelty according to me is the fact that everything can be a potential document. Notion's as a product has two very contrasting features. One as a hybrid document editor that combines the goodness of Markdown of Dropbox Paper with a more extensive set of formatting blocks. The second as a task manager and an organizer like. Trello.

Every table on Notion can have multiple views saved for previews with different filters, sorting and table style applied. Also, elements in a table can also be a page making it easier to have a Kanban-style sub-task manager for a particular subtask on a Kanban board for your project.

There are applications that are extremely customisable to the extent that users can modify almost every single aspect of their behaviour and functioning. iTerm2 is one such application that offers a plethora of customisations from colorscheme, fonts, transparency to keyboard shortcuts. The largest advantage of using iTerm2 is the extensive support for mouse actions. It splits panes easily with CMD+D (vertical) and CMD+Shift+D (horizontally). There is support for keyboard shortcuts and autocomplete suggestions. Packages pretty much everything majority of terminal users would need.

This is a very personal choice in my opinion. I think people who have a high keyboard usage rate like programmers tend to prefer Markdown as means for writing and formating their text. Traditional document editors like MS Word and even cloud alternatives like Google Docs rely largely on cluttered menu bars with the mouse hovering over a labrynth of buttons and drop-downs.

Dropbox paper brings the best of Markdown while keeping the extremely basic elements from classic word editors. It is minimal and doesn't bog you down with a host of complex page layouts and templates. The extreme minimalism is the major attraction point for it.

It also serves as a very basic presentation tool too and comes packaged with subtle transition animations. If I have the freedom to chose the platform for any of my presentations I would definitely choose this.

Apart from a task manager and reminder the app also features a habit tracker. Personally I feel the major selling point for this app is that we can run Pomodoro timer against each task while working on the task. This not only helps us keep track of the task but also helps us focus as well as record the time taken for the specific task in terms of Pomodoro intervals. The Android app has a diverse array of widgets with different views. The Mac app can be attached to the menu bar and it functions effectively as a dropdown.

Extremely fast, lightweight, and minimalistic client for PostgreSQL databases. Accesses databases extremely fast and enables the user to sift through a few rows at a time. A dedicated interface for the user to execute queries through an editor and view the queried results.

Minimalistic, lightweight, and uncluttered user interface. Easy switching between requests and environments, quick import requests by simply pasting a cURL request into the URL bar.