--- title: Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer description: Discover essential tools for software engineers that can boost productivity in task management, documentation, and development. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tools-that-make-me-productive-as-a-software-engineer-gqgr3mtlq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer | daily.dev og:description: Discover essential tools for software engineers that can boost productivity in task management, documentation, and development. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tools-that-make-me-productive-as-a-software-engineer-gqgr3mtlq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GQGr3mTLQ.png og:image:alt: Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Tools that Make Me Productive as a Software Engineer **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · [@koladev](https://daily.dev/koladev) · 6 min read · 685 upvotes · 37 comments ## Summary Discover essential tools for software engineers that can boost productivity in task management, documentation, and development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@koladev** · 17 upvotes > I wrote this article to share the tools I used daily and never knew a lot of people would read it. > > If you have any suggestions or tools that you find cool, do not hesitate to share them with us in the comments. **@ghost** · 2 upvotes > I did not write this article, but I feel I did as everything in this article is exactly what I do every day all the time. **@visnusah** · 2 upvotes > very nice ! **@argolovato** · 1 upvotes > I love Excalidraw for whiteboarding ideas, but when I need to visualize a system architecture and how components work within a larger system, I need something a bit more sophisticated. I'm exploring Multiplayer.app - seems promising so far. **@softwareengine** · 1 upvotes > It was quite interesting this post, but I'd like to remind that for the Task Management Tools part, there are the GitHub Projects which from my POV are more useful than they seem. > > You can create as many labels as you want, associate issues with the stories of Kanban, create milestones, automatically change the state of the story in the Kanban when you change something in the code attached to the issue related to that story, etc. And last but not least, something that I discovered these last days, you can create new _issues_ from conversations kept in _Discussions_. > > Obviously, I said this as... ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 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I’m exploring Multiplayer.app - seems promising so far.","datePublished":"2024-03-28T13:45:25.239Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/GQGr3mTLQ#c-jwEYwZk68","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Argo Lovato","url":"https://daily.dev/argolovato","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocIgiH7PTazVJvd3MCFclgAC--3krGKSDSnP4N3H9miE=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"It was quite interesting this post, but I’d like to remind that for the Task Management Tools part, there are the GitHub Projects which from my POV are more useful than they seem.\nYou can create as many labels as you want, associate issues with the stories of Kanban, create milestones, automatically change the state of the story in the Kanban when you change something in the code attached to the issue related to that story, etc. And last but not least, something that I discovered these last days, you can create new issues from conversations kept in Discussions.\nObviously, I said this as a complement to your tools, but is true that despite how popular is GitHub, I don’t see many people talking about it. 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