Developer Productivity tools

This post will serve as a reference for different tools that help the developer to be more productive
and make his life easier, most for Java, others are general
I'll also list some popular libraries

IDEs and Editors

VSCode [https://code.visualstudio.com/]

Notepad ++ [http://notepad-plus-plus.org/]
Eclipse [https://eclipse.org/]
Webstorm [Java script IDE :https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/]

Graphics

online photo editor [http://apps.pixlr.com/editor/]
3D design : Blender [http://www.blender.org/]

Mocking & wire framing

invision [https://www.invisionapp.com/]

UML tools

draw.io [https://www.draw.io/]
Visual Paradigm [http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/]

Windows tools

Tabbed windows explorer [ Clover 3 : http://ejie.me/]
Tabbed CMD [ ConEmu : http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/]

Browsers Extensions:

FireFox, Dark reader (dark mode for any website)

performance testing

JMeter [http://jmeter.apache.org/]

Scheduling and time management

Tom's Planner [http://www.tomsplanner.com/]
TrackingTime [https://trackingtime.co/]

Free Source control servers

Notes and Documents

Google keep [http://keep.google.com]
Google Drive [http://drive.google.com]
Google Documents, sheets, etc..

Slides and Presentations

Google Slides in Drive

Slide share [http://www.slideshare.net/]

Web development

Postman [rest client : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm?hl=en]

Machine Learning

Anaconda (keras, jupyter packages)

Suggestions are welcome !

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