vick1165 / exo-tools

List of tools I use to fuel my general & developer productivity and improve speed and efficiency

Great General & Developer Productivity Tools & tricks

List of tools & tricks I use to fuel my productivity and improve speed and efficiency.
Repo name has been derived from the concept ExoSkeleton which enables or empowers a being more than its usual capacity.

General operational productivity

1. Ditto - FOSS Clipboard Manager for Windows
2. Everything - Freeware. Local file indexer to search files blazing fast across the machine for Windows.
3. Microsoft Powertoys - A FOSS set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity.
4. Cmder - FOSS. Lovely console emulator package for Windows.
5. MouseJiggler - FOSS. simple piece of software whose sole function is to "fake" mouse input to Windows, and jiggle the mouse pointer back and forth. Uses - avoid locking of system, screensavers etc
6. LightBulb - FOSS. Alternative to popular tool Flu.x. Reduces eye strain by adjusting gamma based on the current time.
7. Flux - Propietary but free. Reduce eyestrain.
8. ScreenPresso - Freeware version available. Screenpresso is a NEW Light-weight screen grab tool with built-in image editor, user guide generator and sharing options.
9. Obsidian - FOSS. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. Leverages Zettlekasten method given by Niklas Luhmann (A German Sociologist). Touted as a "SECOND BRAIN".
10. Joplin - FOSS. Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format. Notes exported from Evernote via .enex files can be imported into Joplin. The notes can be synchronised with various cloud services including Nextcloud, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or the file system (for example with a network directory).

Developer Productivity

Visual Studio Plugins (as of now for version 2022)

1. Roslynator 2022 - A FOSS collection of 500+ analyzers, refactorings and fixes for C#, powered by Roslyn.
2. Visual Commander - Proprietary. Extension lets you automate repetitive tasks in Visual Studio 2022/2019/2017 and SSMS 17/2016
3. CodeMaid - FOSS. Extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.
4. CodeAlignment - Proprietary. helps you present your code beautifully, enhancing clarity and readability.
5. Trailing Whitespace Visualizer - FOSS. Keeps your code files clean by making it easier than ever to identify and remove any trailing whitespace.
6. Output enhancer - A FOSS, Output enhancer is Visual Studio extension that adds styling to Visual Studio output window.
7. Git Diff Margin - A FOSS, displays live Git changes of the currently edited file on Visual Studio margin and scroll bar. Supports Visual Studio 2012 through Visual Studio 2022
8. SonarLint - A FOSS, SonarLint helps you detect and fix Bugs, Code Smells, and Security Vulnerabilities. It supports C#, VB.NET, C, C++, JS, and TS. The extension highlights coding flaws on the fly and provides clear GUI.
9. CodeMaid - A FOSS, CodeMaid is an open source Visual Studio extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.>
10. Code Cleanup On Save - FOSS. Automatically runs one of the Code Clean profiles when saving the document. This ensures your code is always formatted correctly and follows your coding style conventions.
11. One Dark Pro - FOSS. One Dark Pro theme for Visual Studio generated using Alexander Teinum's Dainty for Visual Studio, saved with Visual Studio Color Theme Designer and tweaked to closer match Binaryify's One Dark Pro theme for Visual Studio Code.
12. Hitman - FOSS. Small, nifty windows based utility to kill processes on the fly based on text match.

Visual Studio Plugins (as of now for version 2019)

1. Roslynator 2019 - A FOSS collection of 500+ analyzers, refactorings and fixes for C#, powered by Roslyn.
2. Visual Commander - Proprietary. Extension lets you automate repetitive tasks in Visual Studio 2022/2019/2017 and SSMS 17/2016
3. Sharpen - Visual Studio extension that intelligently introduces new C# features into your existing codebase
4. CodeMaid - FOSS. Extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.
5. CodeAlignment - Proprietary. helps you present your code beautifully, enhancing clarity and readability.
6. Viasfora - FOSS. Extension that enhances the text editing experience!
7. Trailing Whitespace Visualizer - FOSS. Keeps your code files clean by making it easier than ever to identify and remove any trailing whitespace.
8. Output enhancer - A FOSS, Output enhancer is Visual Studio extension that adds styling to Visual Studio output window.
9. Git Diff Margin - A FOSS, displays live Git changes of the currently edited file on Visual Studio margin and scroll bar. Supports Visual Studio 2012 through Visual Studio 2022
10. SonarLint - A FOSS, SonarLint helps you detect and fix Bugs, Code Smells, and Security Vulnerabilities. It supports C#, VB.NET, C, C++, JS, and TS. The extension highlights coding flaws on the fly and provides clear GUI.
11. CodeMaid - A FOSS, CodeMaid is an open source Visual Studio extension to cleanup and simplify our C#, C++, F#, VB, PHP, PowerShell, JSON, XAML, XML, ASP, HTML, CSS, LESS, SCSS, JavaScript and TypeScript coding.>

Useful Projects (NuGet)

1. UnitsNet - MIT License. Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better.
2. BenchmarkDotNet - MIT license, Powerful .NET library for benchmarking