3 tools to improve our productivity in Ubuntu

3 tools to improve our productivity in Ubuntu

Licenses and Free Software have always had their appeal to the business world as it helps reduce costs, but there are other functions in addition to reducing costs that are good for companies. One of these functions is the wide support, in this Ubuntu fully complies, since it not only offers extensive support, but also offers free or cheaper than other companies such as Red Hat. But today I am going to talk about another characteristic at the business level, of productivity in Ubuntu And as with three simple applications our productivity can be significantly increased.

To do this, we use two productivity techniques that have given and give very good results, one of them is David Allen's GTD technique and the other is the well-known Pomodoro technique, famous for its watch. To perform these techniques, there are many programs that installed in our Ubuntu help us to comply with its strict discipline.

3 Programs to increase our productivity in Ubuntu

The first of the programs is our mail manager. O well Evolution O well Thunderbird, They offer us a great alternative to write down and create our lists, as well as synchronize them with our online calendars and with the calendar on our smartphone. They are free and easy to install, Evolution is already installed in our Ubuntu and Thunderbird can be installed from the Ubuntu Software Center. The problem I see with these applications is that they have so many options that they can distract us from our tasks and not make us more productive.

Getting Thing Gnome is a program that is based on David Allen's GTD technique, its name is a pun between the name of Allen's technique and the Gnome desktop. It is currently in the Ubuntu repositories so by searching for «GTG»In the Ubuntu Software Center, you will have it ready to install.

The third tool is not based on technique Get Things Done de David Allen but yes in the second most popular technique in terms of productivity: Pomodoro App an application that not only helps us perform the Pomodoro technique but also helps us create lists of tasks to be performed by this technique. The app is free but it is not in the Ubuntu repositories, so if we have it we will have to open a terminal and write:

sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 libxss1

Once we have installed these libraries, we will this website and we downloaded the PomodoroApp deb package to perform the manual installation. The installation process is somewhat rudimentary, but effective and the program is quite good.

If you are looking for tools to improve your productivity, these three are a good start, although they are not the only ones. Another alternative already mentioned in the blog is the use of programs that help us to take notes. A good alternative but somewhat confusing. Do you use any productivity tools in Ubuntu? Which one would you recommend? Have you tried any of them already?


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  1.   Gonzalo said

    Is there a way for Evolution to run in the background?