Start here tonight

start with one list, not five Trending toolHow-To Geek, Sep 10

Super Productivity is a free, open source task manager that folds time tracking and a Pomodoro timer into one list

The task manager most people need is not the one asking for a subscription.

Super Productivity is an open source app whose own site calls it free forever, and it collapses several separate habits into one window: tasks with subtasks, notes and due dates, a time tracker driven by keyboard shortcuts, a Pomodoro timer and focus mode, and Kanban and Eisenhower boards for deciding what actually matters. How-To Geek listed it on September 10 among five free open source apps it rates above their paid alternatives, setting it against Todoist and TickTick. It runs on the desktop, in a browser at app.super-productivity.com, and on mobile, works offline, and exports to JSON or CSV. The honest catch is sync: keeping devices in step runs through your own WebDAV server or Dropbox, which you have to set up yourself.

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The tool shelf new tonight

Super Productivity

FreeDesktop, web, and mobileHow-To Geek, Sep 10

Open source and free forever, it holds tasks, a time tracker, a Pomodoro timer, and Kanban and Eisenhower boards in one offline app, though keeping devices in step means setting up your own WebDAV server or Dropbox sync.

Bitwarden

Free; Premium $1.65/moDesktop and browser extensionsHow-To Geek, Sep 10

Basic password management stays always free and Premium adds an integrated authenticator, file attachments, and emergency access for $1.65 a month billed annually at $19.80, but as How-To Geek puts it, a cloud vault still lives on someone else's servers.

Listary

Free; paid Pro availableWindows search and launcherMakeUseOf, Sep 10

It reads the NTFS Master File Table directly to return file results in milliseconds and adds a folder jump inside Save and Open dialogs, and the free version is described as one hundred percent free, though its homepage never says what the paid Pro version costs.

Winhance

FreeWindows 10 x64 and Windows 11MakeUseOf, Sep 10

This open source utility strips preinstalled Windows apps and features from an ordinary window instead of a command line and can write tasks that re-remove them when an update puts them back, but some apps and features cannot be reinstalled after removal, so take the restore point it offers first.

OBS Studio

FreeWindows, Mac, or LinuxHow-To Geek, Sep 10

Free and open source recording and live streaming, now at version 32.2.2, handles a screen walkthrough for a colleague as readily as a broadcast, though How-To Geek's one fair complaint is that packing that much capability into a streamlined interface is hard.

Every shelf item is available today; no waitlists, no vaporware.

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The workflows follow along at home

Four Android settings quietly hold your notifications back, and switching each one off brings them on time

About 15 minutesAn Android phoneHow-To Geek front page, Sep 10

Battery saver first Battery Saver, per-app battery optimization, Data Saver, and the pause-unused-apps toggle each throttle background sync, and How-To Geek gives the menu path to reverse all four for the apps that actually matter.

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Give Gemini standing instructions and a few saved Gems so you stop re-explaining yourself every session

About 20 minutesA Google account with GeminiAndroid Police, Sep 10

Tell it once Standing notes under Settings, then Personal Intelligence, plus connected Google apps and a couple of saved Gems, stop you retyping the same background into every new conversation.

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Android will now move your saved passwords and passkeys into a new manager in a few seconds

Under 10 minutesA screen lock on the phoneHow-To Geek front page, Sep 10

Import, never retype A new transfer flow carries passwords and passkeys between Google Password Manager, 1Password, Bitwarden, and Dashlane, skipping duplicates as it goes, with more partners said to follow.

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Write in plain Markdown and let one free Pandoc command hand back the Word file people asked for

About 20 minutesPandoc, free and open sourceXDA front page, Sep 10

One command out Draft where you like, then run pandoc article.md -o article.docx to produce the .docx a colleague or client wanted, with templates available when the default styling is not enough.

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Mary of Nazareth

Keep and Ponder

The useful work is finished. Keep what is true, ponder what matters, and entrust the rest to God.

Keep

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.

John 14:27, KJV

Ponder

Release the need to replay one difficult moment.

Entrust

Christ, let your peace be stronger than the day still echoing in me. Amen.

A practice shaped by Luke 2:19Guided by the biblical witness of Mary of Nazareth.

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