Wishlist

13 Ideas of Productivity Tools I Would Love to Use (Wishlist)

The ideas

1. The perfect mix between Airtable & Neo4j - An Airtable-like solution to quickly manage from my mobile some dependency/relationships (graoh/RDF) small databases
2. The perfect mix between Trello, GitHub & Jira - A tool that can be both used with few constraints (Trello, GitHub) and do powerful features (Jira) while having as few different entities as possible that are linked to existing stuff like repos, commits, issues, and that works offline (Trello)
3. The perfect mix between GitHub and Google Docs - Having Google Docs review/comment feature linked with GitHub, for instance by automatically creating pull-request
4. The perfect mix between Bankin, Qonto, Revolut, Google Spreadsheet and an AI - a tool that aggregates everything you own (money, loan&debt, salary, patrimony, etc.), allows you to have history and projections, suggestions, but also to simulate what would be the impact of buying, selling a building, having a salary raise, quitting job, etc
5. A smart screen that always displays my calendar schedule, todolist, today’s achievements etc - I would put one in my bathroom to inject my today’s program and one on my offices desk
6. The perfect mix between Franz, Google Inbox, Facebook Feed, etc. - A tool that aggregates every source of inputs I need to follow: emails, slack boards, text messages, monitoring, GitHub events; so you are sure to never miss anything important while being able to stop checking those services every 5 minutes; bonus: transform all those streams in threads in this tool with an “unread” state, so even Slack becomes usable tool for people mostly working asynchronously
7. A tool that allows finding developers based on code instead of their CV (RIP. Sourced Legacy)
8. A tool that makes remote working at least as effective as a local working – bonus: to make it work in hybrid organizations
9. The perfect mix between Git, Perforce, and Subversion: something that allows me to have one big monorepos, that fits well with GitHub (where Perforce fails), that fits well with CI/CD (where monorepos fail), that allows cloning only a subpart of a repo
10. The perfect mix between Neo4J and a self-hosted Wikipedia/Wikidata: A tool that allows to collaboratively define, view and analyze an unstructured, complex, evolutive, and living system (more)
11. A tool that can transform my phone into a comfortable working station – So I can forget my laptop forever
12. An anti-hater/anti-troll filter – Like the Gmail’s antispam for Internet browsing, maybe just by graying-out potential bad messages instead of deleting them completely
13. A tool that anticipates proactively the bad behaviors while using your digital devices – detects unfocus & procrastination waves, when you look too tired, stressed, angry to reply to a mail, maybe not something that actually blocks you, but a visual indicator that motivated to go back “green”

16 ideas of things that I want to be part of my daily routine

The ideas

1. To not have to manage, choose my clothing.

• Having only one choice, or having an app/smart-something that selects it for me.
• Being sure to have my umbrella when needed, etc.

2. To not have to manage, choose when and what to eat.*
3. To always have my calendar schedule and today’s todolist visible on a screen.

• so I can get a quick view before going to bed, when waking up, in the bathroom, etc.

4. To have assistants or virtual assistants.
5. To only use me feet (walking), to have drivers, or to take the buses when traveling in cities.

• a.k.a. avoid taking undergrounds and profit from the sunlight.
• a.k.a. I dream of having my offices at <30 minutes by feet from my home.

6. To live in a nice place where I don’t have regrets to let my family alone when going to work.
7. To start the day with my children and to start my working day after I took them to school.

• ❤️

8. To not have to do the home-cleaning chores myself.
9. To go in a foreign country with my family ~ every month.

• especially when my children are young

10. To have only 1 CB and 1 bank account.

• a meta one that aggregates everything would be OK

11. To have nice, cool, and friendly colleagues.
12. To play music on at least once a week.

• if possible with a band.
• if possible, that are totally not in my regular life circles.
• if possible, that don’t know what is a computer.

13. To take a nap every afternoon.

• currently considering to do polyphasic sleep again

14. To have a very small todolist.
15. To have contributors on my active open-source projects, so I always have “colleagues” in both my professional and side projects.
16. To always be inbox-0.