Programming is no doubt a time-consuming task. Often people lose focus when writing code. If you’re a programmer or developer, you definitely have deadlines, but it’s hard to stick to them if your productivity is stalled for whatever reason. Today we’re going to take a look at five great productivity tools for programmers and developers.
Clockify
Clockify is a free time tracker that primarily helps you keep track of the time you spend on different projects. You just need to enter what you are working on and start the timer. Once you stop the timer, it will automatically add hours worked to your list of entries.
It can also show you data, such as how productive you are (weekly, monthly, or yearly), as well as calculate billable hours and wages. Clockify can also gamify the coding process. You just need to set the scores for each challenge, track the times for them and try to beat the estimated race times.
Habitica
Habitica helps you create daily tasks. You may have used habit trackers or to-do apps in the past. But Habitica is different. This software makes the whole progress tracking process quite fun.
This habit tracker app comes with a guild and group quest feature which can help you if you are working in a team. Simply add your project’s activities to a group quest and link the team member’s tasks together. Now, if you procrastinate and don’t complete your task on time, other members’ characters will also take damage. Ultimately, you will have to be more responsible for the tasks assigned to you.
MusicforProgramming
According to an experiment conducted by Tennessee State University, instrumental music helps you focus on your work. But in a very busy schedule, how can you find the right music?
MusicforProgramming is a very interesting website that has a code editor like interface and works as a productivity music generator. Just put on your headphones, select any of the available playlists and press PLAY to launch it. Most of the tracks on this site are instrumental, which is useful for boosting your productivity.
Silver Searcher
Code research (writing, reading or searching for code) takes a significant amount of time and reduces productivity.
Silver Searcher is one of the best code search tools that is popular for its speed. In short, it is also known as Ag and has the same functions as Ack. But it’s almost 34 times faster than Ack in displaying results. Silver Searcher allows you to specify files for more specific reports. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and BSD.
MantisBT
MantisBT is an open-source web-based bug tracking system. It’s a cross-platform tool that sends updates to your team when issues are found via email notifications. You can also specify which issues you want to monitor using MantisBT in terms of type and severity.
MantisBT also records changes made to issues so you can easily track them for analysis. While it is primarily used for tracking and reporting software defects, you can even customize it and use it as a project management tool.
