Get Things Done
Productive tools for the cloud era (What I am using)
Microsoft To-Do / Trello / Gmail Tasks - Task / project management
Quip - note taking, collaboration, GTD, live apps, etc.
Confluence / Google Docs - Wiki, Knowledge Management and Technical Writing
JIRA - Issue / Tasks / Project Tracking
Discourse - Discussion platform
GitLab - Self-hosted Git SCM
XMPP / IRC / Slack - Instant Messaging / Chat (use OTR for forward secrecy whenever possible)
Dropbox /
BitTorrent Sync (Resilio)/ rsync + Syncthing - Files and Directories SyncGoogle Apps (SaaS) / Zimbra Collaboration Server (Self-hosting) - Mail, Calendar and Docs (including XMPP, if Google doesn't shut it down...)
GnuPG / keybase / OTR (off-the-record) - Privacy & Encryption
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Please check the stuff above the horizontal line;-)
Global Inbox
Gmail rocks as web mail. Check all the lab features and its built-in search, 7G of storage. It's ideal for me.
Calendar
Web based calendar from Google. Best in class, can be set to synchronize with Mail, Thunderbird, SunBird, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Entourage... Also available on mobile phone. This is the best cross platform calendar solution I have seen so far.
To Do List
Built by an Australian company in Sydney. Provide To Do List based as web service. All web based and can be integrated into gCal. That's the best point to use it. Available on iPhone but pro account required (25 bucks a year)...
Mac OS X Dashboard Widget available: rememberthemoof
Knowledge Management => Wiki (local + centralized) + Google Drive (Docs)
Personal Wiki based on Atlassian Confluence, it is the best enterprise Wiki. Personal license is free (2 users). In my case, Confluence 5.1.2 (upgraded from 2.10.3, 3.0.0_1, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.1.2, 3.2, 3.2.1_01, 3.3.x, 3.4.x, 3.5.x, 4.x, 5.x) is powered by Ubuntu Server, Apache, Tomcat ,Java and MySQL.
Evernote and Google Docs are my temporary casual notes taking tools, Gollum (git + markdown) is for technical notes. Contents are revised and then pushed to Confluence (elegant format) on a weekly basis.
Issue Tracker
Atlassian JIRA as issue tracker for day to day job and life.
I also have a Mediawiki instance is for legacy work related knowledge, in the middle of migrating all contents to Confluence.
Pen and Paper
Brainstorm: MindManager
Available on Mac OS X and Windows. Use Freemind on Linux. It's mind dumper, use it to dump your quick idea or thinking. Now I feel MindManager is a bit out-of-date.
File & Folder sync
Dropbox (Mac/Linux/Windows)
Inspired by Cloud computing, Dropbox offers 2GB of space for every account, client for all Linux/Mac/Windows. Easy to sync folders and files from different locations and computers.
Notes
Best note taken service I can found at the moment. Although it is not good enough to beat Microsoft's Onenote 2007 totally, it is still the best note service. Clients available on Mac OS X, Windows. Use web based Evernote on Linux. The best part of Evernote is to use with iPhone, just take a shot and upload it, keep and back up your receipts, quick notes, post-it etc on the fly...
Address book
Addressbook (Mac OS X)
Centralized online calendar, address book and connection solution. Plug-ins are available for Mac OS X, Thunderbird (which I think is great and most useful), Outlook/OE/Windows Live Mail, Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail and almost all mobile devices.
Windows Live Sync: Live Sync (Mac/Windows)
Synchronize folders automatically once set up. This is one of Microsoft's best live projects I know, the other could be Windows Live Writer. I like it. Clients available for Mac OS X and Windows. Use live ID, all folders on computers installed foldershare software will be automatically synchronized over the internet. You don't need to take care once set up. Cool!
Password Manager
KeePass (Windows) KeepassX (Mac/Linux)
We live in a world that everyone and everything asks us for a so-called password, passport. Why? I have to admit that I have a pretty bad memory and it seems that I am getting more and more forgetful. So I have to keep all my password safe. KeePass is the ultimate solution. KeePassX is the port for Linux and Mac users.
Bookmark sync: Xmarks (previously Foxmarks) & Chrome Sync
Foxmarks is a Firefox add-on, and I believe it offers support to Safari and bloody IE as well now. It's a easy tool to keep your bookmarks on Foxmarks server and keep it synchronized on all your computers. This is a MUST have add-on. Be careful to use Foxmarks with ReadItLater, do exclude the Read It Later folder in sycn profile, all your ReadItLater list will be messed up!
Diigo / Pocket AKA - Read It Later
I always feel that I am overwhelmed by exploding information everyday. Too many blog entries, RSS feeds, articles to read. Sometimes I am in the middle of reading a valuable article, while I have to give up halfway because something more important comes up. Use Read It Later to mark the page, you can access your list on different machines, different operating systems. The list is synchronized using a RSS feed dedicated for you. Damn good!
Chandler (Mac OS X/Linux/Windows) Chandler's wiki is better than the product itself. It's far from a light weight GTD tool. So I ditched it.
Collect your thoughts in 1 place
Manage them with Tickler Alarms
and NOW-LATER-DONE Triage Status
Track Notes, Todos and Events
from the Calendar
Sharing, Back up and Web Access
with Chandler Hub
The note-to-self organizer. A notebook you can organize, back up and share! You must try this, wonderful concept to get yourself organized, also they offer free online backup and sheare service.
To be amended...