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  1. 1 November 2026

    Day 69 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-nine days.
    • Launched a new Faceless YouTube Channels database with fifty-eight of the most successful faceless YouTube channels, from CoComelon and Lofi Girl to Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey, each with live subscriber, view and video counts from YouTube, the format it uses and how it stays faceless, checked every day.
    • Launched a new Most Successful Websites database with fifty of the world's most successful websites, from Google and YouTube to Wikipedia and Amazon, each with checked facts and source links and no images or videos. It is re-checked and updated every day.
    • Added nine new guides: How to Run Every Social Media Channel with Claude, How to Use Claude as Your Graphic Designer, Anatomy of a Top 1% AI Prompt, The Anatomy of a Good AI Prompt, How to Actually Win with AI Now, How to Build Your AI OS, Claude Code Mod Stack, 10 Steps to Turn Claude into a Motion Designer, and Claude Mastery Plan.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: btop, Nushell, Workrave, ntfy, Kiwix, Double Commander, RSS Guard, Thorium Reader, mise and VSCodium.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 31 October.
    • Added twenty more hacks each to the Crazy Marketing Hacks, Crazy Sales Hacks and Crazy Business Growth Hacks pages, which now hold sixty each.
    • Added twenty more AI hacks, so the Crazy AI Hacks page now holds one hundred and thirty.
    • Added one hundred and twenty new ideas for 1 November to the New AI Use Case Ideas page, which now holds eight hundred and forty.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds one hundred and eighty.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred and sixty.
    • Search titles were made clearer for the free Excel alternatives, free InDesign alternatives and free note-taking apps for Windows pages, with extra details for Raycast, Things 3 and NotebookLM, and the Digital Minimalism category got a new introduction.
    • Following the daily legal check, legal guides now carry a not-legal-advice note, and the Crazy Sales Hacks page now mentions the laws that cover cold outreach.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 30 October.
    • Added three new deals: 50% off Reclaim.ai for students and educators, 20% off Reclaim.ai for nonprofits, and 25% off SavvyCal for students, educators and nonprofits.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Daily Water Intake Estimator and the Morse Code Translator, two new free tools that run fully in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Cuckoo, e.ggtimer, Witeboard, Koofr, addy.io and UptimeRobot for focus, teamwork and everyday admin; Reedsy Studio, Ellipsus, Rewordify, WordHippo and Netspeak for writing and reading; Blockly Games, Scratch, Edabit, Clozemaster, daily.dev and the GitHub Student Developer Pack for learning; Freebiesbug, Health Icons, css.gg, illlustrations, Leonardo, BrandColors, Layoutit Grid, Modern Font Stacks and CSS Loaders for design; and Regexper, JWT.io, Cover Your Tracks and Exodus Privacy for developer and privacy checks.
    • Launched a new Most Successful Mobile Apps database with forty-one apps, from WhatsApp and YouTube to ChatGPT and Spotify, each with its latest user figure from the company's own reports and a link to the source. It is text only and checked every day.
    • Added Kilobat, a Mac menu bar app that checks whether café, coworking and hotspot Wi-Fi can handle your calls.

  2. 31 October 2026

    Day 68 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-eight days.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Wox, MarkEdit, Mole, Czkawka, dupeGuru, chezmoi, Gum, Helix, Zed and Yaak.
    • Added ten new guides: 30 Claude Concepts Everyone Should Know, Everything About Apple iPad mini, How to Build a Game with Claude, Apple MacBook Pro PROLED XDR Guide, How to Build a Monetized Faceless YouTube Channel with Claude, How to Build Stickman Animation Videos with AI Tools, How to Be an AI Consultant, How to Build Faceless YouTube Shorts with AI Tools, How to Make Money with Claude Motion Graphics, and How to Be a Vibe Marketer with AI Tools.
    • Launched a new Crazy Sales Hacks page with real sales hacks, each linked to its source, with search and filters. It already holds forty.
    • Launched a new Crazy AI Hacks page with one hundred and ten hacks, ten each for eleven areas including ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Google Gemini, Grok, Perplexity and AI image and video generation, each linked to its source.
    • Added twenty more hacks each to the Crazy Marketing Hacks and Crazy Business Growth Hacks pages, which now hold forty each.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds one hundred and sixty.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred and fifty.
    • Added two hundred and forty new ideas to the New AI Use Case Ideas page, which now holds seven hundred and twenty.
    • Search titles were made clearer for Kokonut UI, Virtual Mac for iPad and Superdesign, with extra details on several pages, and the Deep Work category got a new introduction.
    • Following the daily legal check, unprovable claims were softened on the comparison pages and the productivity tools report.
    • Resource links and share cards were rechecked.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 29 October.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Sleep Cycle Calculator and the Roman Numeral Converter, two new free tools that work in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added two new deals: free Pixlr for Education for schools, and Slido education plans from $84 a year.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: BBC Bitesize, Open Knowledge Maps, Learn X in Y Minutes, VisuAlgo, Python Tutor, The Missing Semester, BetterExplained, Ptable, Rosetta Code, Regex Crossword, web.dev and Memrise for learning; Shapefest, Accessible Colors, Color.review, Method Draw, Ionicons and SVGL for design; Docusaurus, GitBook, Formspree, Neocities, Linktree, Invoice Generator and vClock for building and getting things done; NoDesk and Hardcover for remote jobs and reading; and BandLab, Flat and BeepBox for making music.

  3. 30 October 2026

    Day 67 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-seven days.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: bat, Obsidian Git, Hidden Bar, Glow, superfile, Text Grab, Kando, NormCap, Tridactyl and Ulauncher.
    • Added thirteen new guides: Claude for Legal, Claude Models on Google Cloud, How to Use AI on Your Phone, How to Use AI on Your Tablet, Claude Security, How to Build Voice AI Agents, Canva, Canva AI, Google Antigravity Plugins, Google Gemini 4 Carbon, GitHub Copilot, Perplexity, and NVIDIA Nemotron.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 30 October.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds one hundred and forty.
    • Launched a new Crazy Marketing Hacks page with twenty real marketing and growth hacks, each linked to its source, with search and filters. Twenty more land every day.
    • Launched a new Crazy Business Growth Hacks page with twenty real growth hacks from companies like Stripe, Duolingo, Notion and Costco, each linked to its source, with search and filters. Twenty more land every day.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred and forty.
    • Search titles were made clearer for OpenDesign, Affinity and the Higgsfield Academy guide, with extra details on several pages, and the Email category got a new introduction.
    • Following the daily legal check, health guides now carry a health note, the Upwork guide carries an earnings note, and Listary is now listed as Freemium.
    • All thirty-one deals were rechecked on their official pages, and resource links and share cards were rechecked.
    • Added a new deal: students get 62% off the first year of Proton Unlimited, which includes Proton Drive.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 28 October.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Hours & Minutes Calculator and the Number to Words Converter, two new free tools that run fully in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Untools, Jumpshare, Lightshot, Annotely, Auphonic and Excalidraw Libraries for thinking, capturing and sharing; Search My Site, Kagi Small Web, 1MB Club, Passkeys Directory and Cheatography as free directories; Google Arts & Culture, Patternico, Gradient Magic, AutoDraw, Pixelied, Bigjpg, Wellcome Collection and ccMixter for design, images and music; Random User Generator, httpbin, Kroki, Lipsum, IPinfo and Online OCR as small utilities; and Paul's Online Notes, Math is Fun, Teachable Machine, Open Yale Courses and Teach Yourself CS for learning.
    • Added What Agents Can Do, a free directory of real AI agent workflows with source links, prompts and pitfalls, and UIAble, a shadcn-based UI kit with a free MIT-licensed edition.

  4. 29 October 2026

    Day 66 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-six days.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: MeetingBar, SponsorBlock, uBlock Origin, Slidev, Yazi, fd, LinearMouse, Amethyst, Vale and Koodo Reader.
    • Published the AI and Tech News posts for 28 and 29 October.
    • Added 120 new ideas for 29 October to the New AI Use Case Ideas page, which now holds 480.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds one hundred and twenty.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred and thirty.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for Sejda, Land-book and Motion Primitives, with extra details on several pages, and the Project Management category got a new introduction.
    • The Privacy and Cookie policies now mention the Featured on Uneed badge, following the daily legal check.
    • A security check tightened how old redirect links are looked up, and resource links and share cards were rechecked.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 27 October.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Meeting Cost Calculator and the Unix Timestamp Converter, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Remember The Milk, Checkvist, Dynalist, LettuceMeet, Kill the Newsletter, Markup Hero, Unhook and Adobe Enhance Speech for tasks, scheduling, focus and audio; FilePizza, Tables Generator, JSONPlaceholder and Online Tone Generator as small utilities; Cool Tools, Wiby, 512KB Club, uses.tech, ToS;DR, JustDeleteMe and 2FA Directory as free directories; Lummi, IRA Design, Wakamai Fondue, FontDrop, Butterick's Practical Typography, Dark Mode Design and Mockup World for design; and Chrome Music Lab, Lichess, Language Transfer and Tatoeba for learning.

  5. 28 October 2026

    Day 65 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-five days.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Stats, lazygit, Zellij, ripgrep, Fabric, Kanata, Pake, Hammerspoon, Mermaid and Starship.
    • Published ten new free guides: using GPT-6.1 Terra to make money, for business growth, marketing, sales, and development, a Google DeepMind Genie 4 guide, the iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins in ChatGPT, writing scroll-stopping hooks with AI, building an ideal customer profile with AI, and landing your first Upwork client with AI.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 27 October.
    • Redesigned the homepage with new copy, a rotating headline and a scroll progress bar, and added the Featured on Uneed badge to the hero and footer.
    • Redesigned the tool, guide and category pages with quick-facts tiles, colour-coded pros and cons, a step timeline and a category logo cloud, and gave every page a new animated heading.
    • Redesigned the articles and legal pages with clause cards, summary chips, a contents list and colour-coded subheadings.
    • Rewrote all ninety-five article bodies in a warmer, more human voice and tightened all two hundred and thirty-five guide bodies, keeping every fact, name and number.
    • Fact-checked articles, roundups and guides, fixing wrong figures, dates and attributions and updating outdated claims, including the Grok plans.
    • Added 120 new ideas for 28 October to the New AI Use Case Ideas page, which now holds 360.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds one hundred.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred and twenty.
    • All deals on the Deals page were rechecked, and deals for Zapier, Capacities Pro and Wordtune were added.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for AudioMass, MDN Web Docs and Overleaf, with extra details on several pages, and the Reading category got a new introduction.
    • Two listing taglines were softened after the daily legal check, and resource links and share cards were rechecked.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 26 October.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Subscription Cost Calculator and the Whitespace Cleaner, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added three new deals: 50% off Jotform for nonprofits, 30% off CleanShot X for students and 50% off Freedom Forever Premium.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: TimeTree, Text Blaze, Nuclino, Calmly Writer, Listary, Shottr, Dillinger and WordCounter for planning, writing, search and screenshots; PubMed, Sololearn, Symbolab, Visuwords, RapidTables, who.is and Windy for learning, research and quick lookups; Radio Garden, Vocal Remover, Free Music Archive, BBC Sound Effects, Incompetech and Zapsplat for audio; and Coverr, Kaboompics, ISO Republic, picjumbo, the NASA Image and Video Library, Fancy Border Radius, css.glass, Avataaars Generator and Undesign for design and visuals.

  6. 27 October 2026

    Day 64 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-four days.
    • Published ten new free guides: using AI for travel, business operations, customer support, documentation, presentations, standup comedy, better sleep, and long-form content creation, plus a GPT-6.1 Terra guide and a Higgsfield Playable guide.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 26 October, later extended to eighteen stories.
    • Added five comparison pages: Canva vs Figma, Bitwarden vs 1Password, the best screen recorders, the best PDF tools and Google Drive alternatives.
    • Added 120 new ideas for 27 October to the New AI Use Case Ideas page, which now holds 240.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds eighty.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred and ten.
    • All twenty-two deals on the Deals page were rechecked, and a Readwise student deal and Visme education and nonprofit deals were added.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for A Soft Murmur, PDF24 Tools and 9Router, with extra details on their pages, and the Focus category got a new introduction.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 25 October.
    • The privacy page now explains how the Senja testimonial form handles what you submit, and a new automatic check makes sure everything the site saves in your browser is listed.
    • Routine security updates were applied to the site's dependencies and build setup.
    • The motion graphics guide now links to Flowjam's AI video guide.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Inflation Calculator and the Dice Roller & Coin Flip, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Notejoy, Focus To-Do, Penzu, Finch, Smiling Mind and Savvy Time for notes, focus, journaling, wellbeing and scheduling; Curlie, ooh.directory, Marginalia Search and Free Public APIs for discovering sites, blogs and APIs; 1001 Fonts, Fontesk, Collletttivo and CSS Grid Generator for design; Saylor University, Project Euler, Advent of Code, Purdue OWL, RhymeZone, Brainscape, PhET, Zenodo, Google Ngram Viewer, Scribbr Citation Generator, Wiktionary and Linguee for learning, writing and research; and WebcamTests, Keyboard Tester, Rentry and ProtectedText as handy utilities.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Google Workspace MCP, Planify, Timewarrior, croc, fzf, Pandoc, SingleFile, Itsycal, Vibe and D2.

  7. 26 October 2026

    Day 63 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-three days.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 25 October.
    • Added twenty more ideas to the Business Ideas page, which now holds sixty.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds two hundred.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for OpenWA, Abduzeedo and StackEdit, with extra details on their pages, and the Communication category got a new introduction.
    • The Bencho listing was refreshed with a new logo, current features, pricing, pros and cons, and Devhints is no longer tagged as open source.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 24 October.
    • The site now shows a brand contact email, and a new automatic check stops personal details and secret keys from being published with the site.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the New AI Use Case Ideas page with 120 fact-checked ideas for Grok Bot, Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini, AI image and video generation, Claude Code, Meta Muse, OpenAI Dots and Claude Duet, with a fresh batch every day.
    • Launched the Savings Goal Calculator and the Random Name Picker, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Tasks.org, Wiki.js, zk, nb, Subtitle Edit, Kavita, KOReader, PDF Arranger, OCRmyPDF and whisper.cpp.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Goblin Tools, StudyStream and UpNote for tasks, focus and notes; Datawrapper, Flourish, RAWGraphs, Our World in Data, Gapminder and Litmaps for data and research; OpenStax, Codewars, YouGlish, Power Thesaurus, WordReference and Typing.com for learning and writing; Remote OK, We Work Remotely and Working Nomads for finding remote work; Noun Project, DaFont, FontSpace, WebGradients and Vecteezy for design; and Convert Case, RegExr, JSONLint, Speedtest by Ookla, Online Mic Test, 123apps and Calculator Soup as handy utilities.

  8. 25 October 2026

    Day 62 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-two days.
    • Published eight new free guides: using AI for sales, building a second brain with ChatGPT and with Grok Bot, a voice AI guide, a Seedance 2.5 4K guide, finding the best productivity resource for you, being productive with AI, and how to use bestproductivityresources.com.
    • Launched the Business Ideas page, a daily list of AI and tech business ideas with search, filters and sorting, which now holds forty ideas, all based on worldwide news.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 24 October.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds one hundred and ninety.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for Color Hunt, CloudConvert and draw.io, three resource pages got extra details, and the File Management category got a new introduction.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 23 October.
    • The deals on the Deals page were rechecked, and three new deals were added: free Google Workspace for nonprofits, 20% off Whimsical for nonprofits, and free Adobe Express Premium for K-12 schools.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Freelance Hourly Rate Calculator and the Stopwatch and Countdown Timer, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Flatnotes, Fluent Reader, Dashy, Homepage, Homebox, Grocy, Calibre-Web, Immich, VERT and Qalculate!.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Milanote, MeisterTask, Habitify, Time.is and Libby for planning, habits, time and reading; TypingClub, Codecademy, Grid Garden and Alison for learning; Smashing Magazine, Hashnode, Lobsters, Free Software Directory, Free Design Resources and Emojipedia for reading, writing and finding more resources; Boring Avatars, DiceBear, HTML Color Codes, WhatFontIs, Am I Responsive, ManyPixels and Cool Backgrounds for design; and Epoch Converter, Down for Everyone or Just Me, MxToolbox, Wappalyzer, Browserling, Instant Domain Search, Namechk and 2FAS Auth as handy utilities.

  9. 24 October 2026

    Day 61 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty-one days.
    • Published nine new free guides: everything about Higgsfield Content Factory, using Kling 4.0 in Higgsfield, AI for healthcare, everything about Cursor Computer Use, how to prompt Claude Code, how to prompt OpenAI Codex, 10 AI workflows you can build today, AI for storytelling, and AI for go-to-market.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 23 October.
    • Added Higgsfield, an AI platform for making videos and images, to the directory and put it first in Featured tools, and the footer and portfolio page now link to Shushant's Higgsfield profile.
    • The deals on the Deals page were rechecked again, and free Craft Education and Framer Basic site plans for students were added.
    • Added two new deals: a free year of Google AI Pro for US college students, and 20% off Otter Pro for students and teachers.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for ibis Paint X, Adobe Fresco and eat the frog, three resource pages got extra details, and the Brainstorming category got a new introduction.
    • The Is it free? pages now carry a trademark note, the Terms now state the open data licence, and four Open Source tags were corrected.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds one hundred and eighty.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 22 October.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Salary to Hourly Calculator and the WCAG Color Contrast Checker, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: linkding, BentoPDF, OmniTools, ConvertX, Chatbox, QOwnNotes, anarlog, Beaver Habit Tracker, Kanri and Hyperresearch.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: LifeAt, Tweek, Are.na, Slido, Slides.com, Smash, Wheel of Names and Omni Calculator for focus, planning, meetings and everyday tasks; Open Doodles, Resource Boy, Design Resources and Sidebar for design assets and inspiration; DEV Community for developer writing; Compiler Explorer, Devhints, QuickRef.ME, DrawSQL, JSFiddle, transform.tools, Bundlephobia, Can I Email, mail-tester.com and SSL Labs Server Test as handy utilities; Eloquent JavaScript, Frontend Mentor, CSSBattle, Flexbox Froggy and SQLBolt for learning to code; and Wikipedia and The Public Domain Review for research and reading.

  10. 23 October 2026

    Day 60 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixty days.
    • Published ten new free guides: everything about Claude Duet, Kling 4.0 vs Seedance 2.5, creating your AI video and image avatars, an AI automation guide, an AI agents guide, an agentic AI guide, the future of jobs in the AI era, an AI safety guide, how to stay safe online, and using AI for fitness.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 22 October.
    • Launched the Tier List Maker, a new free tool for ranking things into tiers, along with ready-made tier lists for ten topics.
    • Added "Is it free?" answer pages for forty-eight tools with checked pricing.
    • The Guides page and every listing page now have search, filters and sorting, and guides can be filtered by topic, AI tool and reading time.
    • Each guide page now shows its infographic, across seventy-four guides, with download and Pinterest buttons, and two accessibility issues on guide pages were fixed.
    • Added a public Corrections log, an Open data page with the directory as a CSV file under CC BY 4.0, and an opt-in "since your last visit" strip on the homepage.
    • The How We Choose page now shows numbers counted from the site's own data, and the daily roundups and New This Week pages now link to each other.
    • The deals on the Deals page were rechecked again, with clearer notes for the Asana nonprofit, Canva Education and ElevenLabs grants deals.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for OBS Studio, Hypit and time blocking, three resource pages got extra details, and the Remote Work category got a new introduction.
    • The PDF tools got clearer disclaimers and open-source credits, and the licence label for roadmap.sh was corrected.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds one hundred and seventy.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 21 October.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the ROI and CAGR Calculator and the Color Converter, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Ollama, MarkItDown, Docling, Miniflux, BookStack, Huly, OpenWhispr, Readest, Wakapi and Appsmith.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Blush, Logoipsum, Wordmark, StockSnap, Namelix, Httpster, Codrops, Kapwing and Clipdrop for design and media; Tiny Helpers, opensource.builders, switching.software and F-Droid for finding more tools and alternatives; urlscan.io, Mockaroo, RANDOM.ORG, Shields.io, readme.so, Choose a License, dbdiagram.io, ASCIIFlow and Sejda as handy utilities; Mentimeter, MindMeister, Hypothesis and Framadate for meetings, planning and reading together; and JavaScript.info, Full Stack Open, OneLook and MyBib for learning, writing and research.

  11. 22 October 2026

    Day 59 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-nine days.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 21 October.
    • Every news roundup now ends with a short editorial note saying the stories are summaries in our own words and not advice, and two news headlines were reworded to make clear they rest on another outlet's report or an allegation.
    • The deals on the Deals page were rechecked, a free Linear Business plan for startups was added, and the Evernote and Canva deal terms were clarified.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds one hundred and sixty.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for Octop, mcptoon and the Awwwards MCP Server, three resource pages, mcptoon, Awwwards MCP Server and ComfyUI, got extra details and corrected facts, and the Team Productivity category got a new introduction.
    • The Traffic page was updated with figures up to 20 October.
    • Old-link redirects were tightened so they can never send visitors to another website.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Break-even Point Calculator and the UUID Generator, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Cleanup.pictures, Pika, Untitled UI, Awwwards, UI Colors, ColorBox, DrawKit, Lorem Picsum, Clippy and Gratisography for design; Hacker News, Open Launch, Future Tools, TinyLaunch and Awesome Indie for finding and launching more tools; DNS Checker, Crontab.guru, explainshell, TableConvert, VirusTotal, Security Headers, PageSpeed Insights and Webhook.site as handy utilities; KanbanFlow, Coggle, Rainy Mood and Insight Timer for planning, focus and calm; and ZoteroBib, Learn Git Branching and Google Dataset Search for research and learning.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: LibreChat, Donetick, Wallos, Reactive Resume, Sioyek, Ditto, Kopia, Monica, Mealie and OpenAdapt.

  12. 21 October 2026

    Day 58 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-eight days.
    • Published nine new free guides: everything about DeepSeek DeepInfer, Higgsfield Genjutsu Lite, and Wan 3.0 Prime, 20 video effects you can create in Claude, how to clone any website with AI, Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5, 35 Claude Code add-ons, an AI team for real estate, and using Claude for Meta ads.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 20 October.
    • Opened a new Traffic page with public traffic and audience stats, linked from the header, the footer, the advertise page, the media kit and a new Traffic section on the homepage.
    • The advertise page, the homepage and the footer now link to the full media kit.
    • The DataFast analytics script was removed, so the site no longer asks for an analytics choice, and the privacy and cookie policies were updated to match.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds one hundred and fifty.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: rclone, Kimai, jrnl, Taskwarrior, Ice, zoxide, Xournal++, JabRef, Karabiner-Elements and Bruno.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, for the Claude Dashboards guide, the best free AI assistants page and EasyEDA MCP Pro, three resource pages, EasyEDA MCP Pro, obsidian-mind and OpenExecutive, got extra details, and the Knowledge Management category got a new introduction.
    • The advertising policy and affiliate disclosure now describe sponsored guides, videos, infographics and daily post sponsorships, and the ElevenLabs ambassador role.
    • Two listings were corrected: DeskRPG is no longer labelled open source, since its licence is source available, and vflow is now described as a free AI video reference library at its maintainer's request.
    • Resource links and share cards were checked and refreshed, and two software dependencies got security patches.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Profit Margin and Markup Calculator and the URL Encoder and Decoder, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Feather Icons, Bootstrap Icons, Lordicon, BGJar, CSS Gradient, Neumorphism.io and Paletton for icons, backgrounds, shadows and colour; Typewolf, Fonts In Use, FontPair, Velvetyne and Fontsource for typography; Muzli and Old Book Illustrations for inspiration and images; Free Stuff Dev for free developer tools; MDN Web Docs, roadmap.sh, edX, Duolingo, GeoGebra and Wolfram|Alpha for learning; LibriVox, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar and Feedly for reading and research; Firefox Relay, SimpleLogin and Privacy Badger for privacy; and Freesound for sound effects.

  13. 20 October 2026

    Day 57 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-seven days.
    • The whole site is now dark mode only, with dark theme colours, bright flat accents and dark badges, plus a new check that keeps it that way.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 19 October.
    • Added five comparison pages: Grammarly vs QuillBot, Slack vs Discord, graphic design tools, team chat apps and QuillBot alternatives.
    • Added ten more prompts to the AI prompts library, which now holds one hundred and forty.
    • The Make Money Online page was removed and its old link now leads to the matching article.
    • The advertise page now offers a three-month slot, a daily posts sponsorship, sponsored guides, video and infographic packages, bundles and partnerships.
    • Analytics now use a cookieless script, matching what the privacy and cookie policies say.
    • Three search titles were made clearer, three resource pages, Page Mascot, coss ui and Dither Garden, got extra details, and the Personal Productivity category got a new introduction.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Opened a new Deals tab with fourteen verified deals on eleven tools, such as free Notion, Figma and Miro plans for students and free Slack Pro for nonprofits, each checked on the company's own site and rechecked every day.
    • Launched the GST / VAT / Sales Tax Calculator and the Base64 Encoder and Decoder, two new free tools that run in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Atuin, Ferdium, Glance, SilverBullet, tududi, Zen Browser, Deskflow, changedetection.io, SumatraPDF and scrcpy.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Doodle, DeepL, FocusWriter, Session Buddy, Vimium, Dark Reader and Desmos for scheduling, translation, writing, tabs, easier browsing and maths; Inoreader and NetNewsWire for reading the web; Class Central, selfh.st, Privacy Guides, European Alternatives, AI Valley, Public APIs and TOOOLS.design for finding more courses, apps and tools; Pattern Monster, Animista, Font Squirrel, Colormind, HyperUI, Humaaans, Simple Icons and Mixkit for design; and Notepad++, Ninite, Ventoy, Ente Auth, Fast.com and Vocaroo as handy utilities.

  14. 19 October 2026

    Day 56 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-six days.
    • Published ten new free guides: using AI for analysis and problem-solving, AI for Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, AI for Google Sheets, Docs, and Slides, a Microsoft Copilot guide, and building a one person business with AI agents.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 18 October.
    • Added ten new prompts to the AI prompts library.
    • Added AI Compare Ninja, a free site for comparing AI tools and their pricing before you pay.
    • Every resource listing now shows its real icon: thirty-two missing icons were added, and a new check makes sure no listing goes without one.
    • The short-lived page cache added yesterday was removed because the host does not support it; longer caching for static files and lighter images stay in place.
    • Structured data on the home, legal, privacy, terms and collection pages is now safely escaped, after a security check.
    • The awards section now notes that awards are not endorsements and that trademarks belong to their owners.
    • The newsletter invites now explain the Monday email: everything shipped on the site that week, what is new in the free Gumroad libraries and how the site is growing.
    • Three resource pages, ambientCG, Agent Reach and Sandcastles AI, got clearer titles and extra details, and the Organization category got a new introduction.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Unit Converter and the JSON Formatter and Validator, two new free tools that run fully in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Noisli, lofi.cafe and Medito for focus and calm; Whimsical and Tuta for visual planning and private email; Elicit, Consensus, ResearchRabbit, Unpaywall and Open Culture for research and learning; Indie Hackers, Peerlist Launchpad, Launching Next and SideProjectors for finding and launching more tools; One Page Love, WebAIM Contrast Checker, RealFaviconGenerator, Gradient Hunt, Get Waves, Blobmaker, daisyUI, Flowbite, Checklist Design and The Component Gallery for design; and DevDocs, Can I Use, Bulk Resize Photos, PeaZip, AudioMass and TinEye as handy utilities.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Docmost, Linkwarden, Handy, Leantime, Files, AeroSpace, FreshRSS, Rnote, Stretchly and Alexandrie.

  15. 18 October 2026

    Day 55 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-five days.
    • Published eleven new free guides: Seedance 2.5, using AI tools to grow on Twitter/X, Instagram, YouTube, and Reddit, Reddit marketing, Meta ads, Facebook growth, Threads growth, LinkedIn growth for businesses, and creating commercials with Higgsfield.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 17 October.
    • Added ten new prompts to the AI prompts library.
    • Pages now load faster: rendered pages are briefly cached close to visitors, static files are cached for longer and images are lighter, and section accent colours and button labels were adjusted for better contrast and accessibility.
    • Page titles, awards pages, badges, share images, the footer and the app manifest now use the full name Best Productivity Resources.
    • The make-money-online pages got a legal check, an editorial ranking note and softer wording on claims.
    • Three resource pages, Duck.ai, WonderHowTo and ManyBooks, got clearer titles and extra details, and the Learning category got a new introduction.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Days Between Dates Calculator and the Lorem Ipsum Generator, two new free tools that run fully in your browser and save nothing.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Thunderbird, Paperless-ngx, Workflowy, Tiny Little Office and Actual Budget for email, documents, outlines, quick office files and budgets; Crab Fit and Spliit for group plans and shared costs; Marinara Timer and Moodist for focus; BetaList, Fazier, Microlaunch, Futurepedia and Startup Stash for finding and launching more tools; Fontjoy, uiGradients, Khroma, Happy Hues, fffuel, LottieFiles, Open Peeps, Font Awesome and Laws of UX for design; QR Code Monkey, WizTree, Greenshot, Bulk Rename Utility, SVGOMG and Hoppscotch as handy utilities; and The Odin Project for learning web development.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Memos, SiYuan, Open Notebook, Dayflow, solidtime, Pomotroid, Screenity, massCode, llmwiki and Diagram Design.

  16. 17 October 2026

    Day 54 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-four days.
    • Published eight new free guides: everything about Higgsfield Academy, Higgsfield Genjutsu, Higgsfield Ads Studio, and Genjutsu Restyle, the best use cases of Google Gemini 4 Argon, how to prompt Gemini 4 Argon, and how to prompt for AI image generation and AI video generation.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 16 October.
    • Launched a new AI prompts library with 100 copy-and-paste prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and leading image and video tools, which you can filter by task and by AI tool.
    • Brought back the ten sponsored slots, shown as side rails on desktop and as top and bottom strips on smaller screens.
    • Newest resources now come first everywhere on the site, and the homepage now shows the full media kit, profile and testimonials.
    • Added every missing resource icon and fixed or removed three dead listings.
    • ElevenLabs now leads the Featured tools section, and the portfolio now shows the ElevenLabs Ambassador 2026 recognition.
    • The Surprise me button now shows its label on every screen size.
    • Comparison, best-of and alternatives pages now carry an editorial note, the privacy policy now names Supabase, and guides about selling apps now include an earnings note.
    • Old addresses that Search Console reported as missing now redirect to the right pages, and three resource pages got clearer titles and extra details.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched Age Calculator and URL Slug Generator, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and never save or send what you type.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Trilium Notes, AutoHotkey, CopyQ, AltTab, Everything and Etherpad for notes, automation, clipboard, windows, file search and shared writing; World Time Buddy for scheduling across time zones; A Soft Murmur for focus sounds; calibre for e-books; Khan Academy, freeCodeCamp, MIT OpenCourseWare, Exercism and Keybr for learning; Connected Papers for research; Iconify, Remix Icon, Hero Patterns, Adobe Color, Openverse, Storyset, Lapa Ninja, favicon.io and PhotoGIMP for design; There's An AI For That, SaaSHub and DevHunt for finding more tools; and iLovePDF, CloudConvert and JSON Crack for PDFs, file conversion and data.
    • Added ten open-source GitHub projects: Whiteboard, reladraw, diffle, MockServer, Harness Terminal, explainroo, k10s, Screen Memories, Big Arrow on the Screen and Langchain.rb.

  17. 16 October 2026

    Day 53 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-three days.
    • Published eleven new free guides: the FLUX 3 upscaler, sharing your untold stories with Higgsfield, short dramas with Higgsfield AI Influencer, motion design with Higgsfield Katana and Claude, the anatomy of a Claude Motion prompt, how to build faceless brands, a high agency guide, where to launch your startup, lessons from Naval Ravikant, everything about the Tesla Roadster, and a Kling 4.0 guide.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 15 October.
    • Added twenty free tools and free alternatives to popular apps: Heynote, Standard Notes, HedgeDoc, MarkText and StackEdit for notes and Markdown writing; Bitwarden, KeePassXC and Cryptomator for passwords and encryption; TinyPNG, Squoosh and Smallpdf for images and PDFs; tldraw and draw.io for whiteboards and diagrams; ActivityWatch, Clockify, Pomofocus, myNoise and OneTab for time tracking and focus; and Zotero and the Internet Archive for research.
    • Added ten open-source projects from GitHub: DBX, Databasus, Sync-in, Traceway and Homelable for databases, backups, file sync, observability and homelabs; Loop Engineering and Pi Subagents for AI coding agents; Open Knowledge, a Markdown wiki built for AI; UX/UI Agent Skills for Claude; and the free course Claude Code: Everything You Need to Know.
    • Added thirty free tools and websites: Espanso, Zettlr, Overleaf, Markmap and Prompt Optimizer for writing, notes and automation; When2meet and Every Time Zone for scheduling; Monkeytype for typing practice; Coolors, Color Hunt, Huemint, Realtime Colors, Haikei, unDraw and SVG Repo for colours, illustrations and icons; AlternativeTo, Free for Dev, OpenAlternative and Uneed for finding more free software; Wormhole and PairDrop for sharing files; regex101, CyberChef and Ray.so for developers; Have I Been Pwned for checking data breaches; and HandBrake, Flameshot, ezgif, FreeFileSync and 7-Zip for video, screenshots, GIFs, backups and archives.
    • Added ten more open-source GitHub projects: Token Monitor, TrendRadar, OpenBiliClaw, OpenGateLLM, BrowserCode, Kenfold, Tree-sitter Analyzer, Blurt, How to Train Your GPT and MoneyPrinterTurbo.
    • GitHub repository listings now carry a short note that they are third-party projects provided as-is, with a reminder to review each project's licence, code and security before installing.
    • Tidied the homepage, which now shows a few free tools and collections with Show more, made each busy day in New this week show 12 resources with the rest behind Show more, and turned Surprise me into a compact round button on smaller screens.
    • The AI Use Cases page now works out its Updated date and new today labels from when each use case was added, in Indian time.
    • Addresses ending in a slash now redirect permanently to the same address without it, so search engines see one address per page, and fixed a page animation glitch on first load.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched BMI Calculator and Text Diff Checker, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and never save or send what you type.

  18. 15 October 2026

    Day 52 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-two days.
    • Published ten new free guides: the best Claude plugins, the best Claude MCPs, 100 best YouTube channels and 100 best podcasts to accelerate your learning, trending mobile apps, faceless YouTube channels and web apps that are making money now, how to build and sell apps with AI tools, how to sell your app, and how to build an email newsletter business with AI tools.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 14 October.
    • Added best-free pages that list the best free apps by category, platform and price, such as free note-taking apps for Mac, each built only from the directory's own data, plus a hub page linking them all.
    • Added a How we choose page that explains how listings are picked, checked and corrected, a last link check date on every listing and a Report an issue link on resource pages.
    • Added a free Tool of the day widget you can embed in a page or in Notion, and a free, open-source MCP server for searching the directory from AI assistants, with a public GitHub mirror linked from the MCP page.
    • Added an AI Use Cases page with real examples of how people use AI tools, searchable and filterable by tool, topic and price.
    • Added an Advertise page with website ad packages and social post prices.
    • Comparison, alternatives, best-of and guide pages now open with a short answer and end with an FAQ, and list pages show when they were last updated.
    • Refreshed the design with a new flat logo and favicons, a shorter homepage and long lists that load more cards on request.
    • Added hand-checked key differences to Lovable vs Bolt, ChatGPT vs Perplexity and eight other comparison pages, and rewrote copied text on alternatives, collection and resource pages so each page says something of its own.
    • Fixed or removed listings that failed the 14 October link check, removed the inaccurate Pace and FocusFlow AI listings, corrected the Reor listing and merged duplicate listings for Motion, Cron, Hugging Face Course, Obsidian Bases and HEY World into their main entries.
    • Added Windows and Linux (beta) to Claude's platforms, and pointed renamed GitHub listings at their current repositories.
    • The cookie notice now discloses Cloudflare's bot-protection cookie and appears straight away on a first visit.
    • Refreshed the search titles for UI UX Pro Max Skill, Excalidraw for Obsidian and Awesome Harness Engineering, added extra details to those three entries and added a Note-Taking intro.
    • Added LeechBlock NG and SelfControl for blocking distracting websites, and Flow Club for live virtual coworking sessions.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  19. 15 October 2026

    Best Productivity Resources monthly awards

    • Started the Best Productivity Resources Awards, monthly awards for resources added to the directory, with a page for every month and the rubric published on it.
    • Named the ten September 2026 winners from the 578 resources added that month: Aliens Eye, Onorca, Ego Lite, Council of High Intelligence, Obsidian Second Brain, MailDev, OpenWA, My Brain Is Full Crew, Bento and cumora.
    • Named the ten August 2026 winners from the 126 resources added in launch week: Farcaster, Logseq, Fathom, Pi.ai, Asana, Raindrop.io, Loop Habit Tracker, n8n, Morphicons and Scrivener.
    • Winners are picked only from data on each listing (free to start, open source, complete listing, platforms and a working website), one per category, with no votes, fees or star ratings, and each gets a badge and a share card.
    • Removed the Open Source feature from The Art of Command Line, which is shared under a Creative Commons licence rather than an OSI-approved software licence, and from n8n, whose Sustainable Use License is source-available rather than open source.
    • Renamed the Warpcast listing to Farcaster, its name since 2025, and noted that Neynar has run it since January 2026.
    • Noted on Arc Browser that it has been in maintenance mode since May 2025, with security updates but no new features.
    • Launched Loan EMI Calculator and Remove Duplicate Lines, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and never save or send what you enter.

  20. 14 October 2026

    Day 51 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty-one days.
    • Published ten new free guides: Google Gemini 4 Argon, Gemini 4 Argon for job search, business growth, any business, and making money, the Wan 3.0 unlimited and 60% off API offer on Higgsfield, Iman Gadzhi joining Higgsfield as an investor and advisor, Higgsfield Genjutsu via API, 100 best custom GPTs in ChatGPT, and the best Claude connectors.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 13 October.
    • Added a free Pomodoro timer and a What's your productivity type? quiz with shareable result cards.
    • Published a productivity glossary of 49 terms, from time blocking and GTD to the Eisenhower matrix and Zettelkasten, each with a short definition, how to try it, where it came from and tools that help.
    • Added free alternatives pages for 50 popular tools, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Lightroom Mobile, Photoshop Express, Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, Illustrator Draw, Acrobat Sign, Firefly, Adobe Stock, Behance, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, Acrobat, Audition, Adobe XD, Premiere Rush, Adobe Express, Dreamweaver, Animate, Substance 3D, Bridge, Fresco, Excel, Figma, Grammarly, Slack, Zoom, Dropbox, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Zapier, Typeform, Mailchimp, monday.com, Jira, Canva, Miro and Airtable, each with the tool's pricing checked on its official site today.
    • Added LanguageTool, Harper, Hemingway Editor, QuillBot, ProWritingAid and Wordtune for grammar and writing help.
    • Added Discord, Zulip, Element, Pumble, Microsoft Teams (free), Mattermost and Rocket.Chat for team chat.
    • Added IFTTT, Activepieces, Pipedream, Node-RED and Huginn for automating work between apps.
    • Added Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, Jotform, Fillout and Formbricks for forms and surveys.
    • Added MailerLite, Brevo, Kit, Buttondown and listmonk for email newsletters and marketing.
    • Added zcal, Zoho Bookings and Rallly to the free Calendly alternatives, and AppFlowy and Craft to the free Notion alternatives.
    • Added Penpot, Lunacy and Framer as free Figma alternatives, and Adobe Express and Photopea to the free Canva alternatives.
    • Added Vikunja, WeKan and Kanboard to the free Trello alternatives, and Plane and OpenProject to the free Asana alternatives.
    • Added Microsoft To Do, Vikunja and Super Productivity to the free Todoist alternatives, and Joplin, Notesnook, Simplenote and AppFlowy to the free Evernote alternatives.
    • Added Cap, OBS Studio and ShareX to the free Loom alternatives, and Meetily, Buzz, Speakr and call.md to the free Otter.ai alternatives, replacing a macro recorder that did not belong there.
    • Added Microsoft Copilot, Mistral Vibe, Duck.ai and Jan to the free ChatGPT alternatives, and Structured, Tiimo and Super Productivity to the free Motion alternatives.
    • Added Structured, Ellie, Tiimo, Super Productivity and Routine to the free Sunsama alternatives, Instapaper, Karakeep and wallabag to the free Readwise Reader alternatives, and Alfred, Microsoft PowerToys, Flow Launcher, ueli, Maccy and Rectangle to the free Raycast alternatives, now covering Windows too.
    • Added Google Meet, Jitsi Meet and Whereby for video meetings, and Google Drive, OneDrive, Proton Drive, Filen, Syncthing, Nextcloud and LocalSend for file storage, sync and sharing.
    • Added Google Docs, Microsoft 365 web apps, LibreOffice, ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, CryptPad, Zoho Writer and WPS Office for documents, spreadsheets and slides.
    • Added GIMP, Affinity, Krita, darktable and Paint.NET for photo editing and digital art, and Google Sheets, Zoho Sheet and Grist for spreadsheets.
    • Added Inkscape and Graphite for vector design, and RawTherapee, digiKam and Ansel for raw photo editing and photo libraries.
    • Added Scribus and Typst for page layout and typesetting, and DaVinci Resolve, Kdenlive, Shotcut and OpenShot to the free Premiere Pro alternatives.
    • Added Blender and Cavalry for motion graphics and visual effects, and PDFgear, Stirling PDF and PDF24 Tools for editing, converting and signing PDFs.
    • Added Audacity, ocenaudio and Tenacity for audio editing, and the free Lightroom alternatives page now covers Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera Raw too.
    • Added the free Adobe Premiere mobile app, Clipchamp and ProtoPie, with free alternatives pages for Adobe XD (now in maintenance mode) and Premiere Rush (discontinued on 30 September 2026).
    • Added Canva, Kittl and Visme for template-based design, and Phoenix Code, Visual Studio Code and Silex for building websites.
    • Added Synfig, OpenToonz and Pencil2D for 2D animation, and Material Maker, InstaMAT, Poly Haven and ambientCG for 3D materials and textures.
    • Added XnView MP, nomacs and TagSpaces for browsing and tagging files, and ibis Paint X, Sketchbook, MediBang Paint and MyPaint for drawing and painting.
    • Added Snapseed, Darkroom, Polarr, VSCO, Picsart, Fotor and Pixlr for editing photos on your phone.
    • Added VSDC Free Video Editor, Lightworks and LosslessCut for simple video editing.
    • Added Adobe Fresco and Linearity Curve for drawing on tablets, and OpenSign, DocuSeal and Documenso for collecting e-signatures.
    • Added Krea and ComfyUI for AI images, and Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay and Wikimedia Commons for free stock photos and media.
    • Added Dribbble and Carrd for sharing creative work and building portfolio sites.
    • Added a New this week page with every resource added in the last 7 days, a week-by-week archive and an RSS feed of new resources.
    • The newsletter invite now also appears after a finished Pomodoro focus session, on your quiz result and after compressing or merging a PDF.
    • Published Productivity statistics 2026, a page of 59 sourced statistics on remote work, meetings, focus, AI at work, tools and burnout, each with its source and year, plus a copyable citation.
    • Added a Build my tool stack page that turns your chosen tools into a shareable card, and a maker share kit on resource pages.
    • Tidied the site by hiding empty sponsor slots and showing repeated calls to action at most twice per page, and fixed the button layout on the About page and in the footer.
    • Refreshed the search titles for hcom, OpenShorts and HowStuffWorks, added extra details to three resource entries, added a Collaboration intro and corrected the 9Router copy.
    • Corrected the open-source tag for Aceternity UI and the pricing details for Xnapper and Scrolltide.
    • Added colibri, an engine for running very large open AI models on ordinary computers without a GPU, and Clearcam, open-source software that adds object detection, alerts and search to security cameras.
    • Added Jitter, Lottielab, SVGator and Epic Easing for motion design and animation.
    • Added Kumo, mdxcn and Blocks.so for UI components, and Minimalny for minimal web design inspiration.
    • Added Fontalog, FontBase, Open Foundry, Fontmojo, Typescale, Free Faces and FontBrief for finding, managing and setting fonts.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Compound Interest Calculator and the QR Code Generator, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and never save what you enter.

  21. 13 October 2026

    Day 50 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifty days.
    • Published ten more free guides: AI tools for motion design, a Claude mods guide, 10 Claude mods to build, how to make a Claude mod, building your whole team with Claude, 30 things to install in Claude, AI tools for motion graphics, turning Claude into your personal teacher, 25 Claude rules to stop hitting your token limits, and bad AI prompts vs better AI prompts.
    • Published ten new free guides: Meta Muse Wonder, turning a product photo into matching ads, 20 Grok Bot features, 20 Claude Code tips, building your first AI agent, building a Chrome extension without code, a custom study plan in 5 minutes, AI as your personal executive assistant, tailoring your resume for every job, and learning any topic faster with NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook).
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 12 October.
    • Added five comparison pages: Lovable vs Bolt, Claude vs Google Gemini, the best AI app builders, the best video editing tools and Sunsama alternatives.
    • Added a Peerlist badge to the homepage and footer, and a Live on Peerlist Launchpad card on the homepage and update log.
    • Refreshed the search titles for Gentle Shell, Lemo Opuscar and React Bits, added extra details to three resource entries, corrected the Onorca entry and added a Workflows intro.
    • Added Festival, AgenticOS, Pydantic Deep Agents and Overtime for AI agents: structuring agent work towards an outcome, running company agents on your own servers, a self-hosted terminal coding assistant and long autonomous agent runs from one brief.
    • Added OpenInstinct, a personal AI assistant you message over iMessage, and myPKA, a personal knowledge assistant in a folder of Markdown files.
    • Added Impeccable, DesignMD.ai, M3E Canvas, Jiro, VibePrompt and Scrolltide for designing with AI coding tools: design skills and checks, DESIGN.md design systems, Material 3 screen prompts, and libraries of section, UI and scroll-animation prompts.
    • Added Arc UI and affectUI for React components and blocks, and Unsection, BentoGrids, Footer.design and 404s.design for web design inspiration.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched the Discount & Sale Price Calculator and the Password Generator, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser and save nothing.

  22. 12 October 2026

    Day 49 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-nine days.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 11 October.
    • Added a free 399+ ways to make money online pill beside the money database pill across the site, and the banner now shows both free databases side by side.
    • Added an intro reel video to the About the builder section.
    • Refreshed the CapCut, Agency Agents and Gemini guide titles, three resource entries and the Automation intro, and ran a legal check on open-source licence claims and earnings notes.
    • Added ReevesAgents, Remarc, Ordewell, Agent Room and Adrafinil for AI coding agents: running several agent CLIs side by side, giving agents precise feedback, turning one goal into an ordered task plan, letting agents collaborate over MCP and keeping a Mac awake while agents work.
    • Added knowledge-base-server and Dolt for persistent agent memory and version-controlled SQL data, and MCP Gateway for connecting many MCP servers while the agent sees only a few tools.
    • Added Cuelume, Blendy, Monoco, SSGOI and designmd.supply for web interfaces: interaction sounds, element morphing, squircle corners, page transitions and DESIGN.md style guides for AI agents.
    • Added Awesome Jev Knowledge Map, Awesome Medical Imaging Agents and Misaka Agent for AI research references and humanities research.
    • Added Quest AI Workbench, a self-hosted AI agent workbench, Social Media Skills for Claude and Codex, VoiceBlender for voice AI calls, and EasyEDA MCP Pro for AI help with PCB design.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched a Tip & Bill Split Calculator and a Case Converter, two new free tools that run entirely in your browser, use no AI service and keep no data.

  23. 11 October 2026

    Day 48 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-eight days.
    • Launched two new free tools in Free Tools I've Built: a Percentage Calculator and a Word Counter. Both run entirely in your browser, use no AI service and keep no data.
    • Every free tool now shows a clear privacy and disclaimer notice, and the Terms and Privacy Policy now cover the calculators and everyday utilities.
    • Published ten new free guides: a faceless Instagram theme page business with AI, learning from YouTube videos and podcasts with AI, a full website in 10 minutes with Lovable, turning any PDF into a podcast with NotebookLM (now Gemini Notebook), cloning your voice with ElevenLabs, a viral AI song with Suno, cinematic videos with Google Veo, animating old family photos with Kling AI, and a personal second brain with Claude Projects.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 10 October.
    • Added five comparison pages: ChatGPT vs Gemini, Notion vs ClickUp, the best free project management tools, and Loom and Asana alternatives.
    • Fixed structured data issues reported by Google Search Console, added redirects for old links that returned 404, and refreshed two guide titles, three resource entries and the Meetings intro.
    • Added CoolDock, Pieoneer, Dropover, Presentify and Supaste as Mac utilities: a second Dock with widgets, a pie menu launcher, a drag-and-drop shelf, screen annotation and a visual clipboard history.
    • Added screenpipe, a local AI memory of your screen, audio and meetings that AI tools can search.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  24. 10 October 2026

    Day 47 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-seven days.
    • Published ten new free guides: Claude Dashboards plus Claude Motion, 100 SpaceXAI Grok Bot tips, 100 ChatGPT do’s and don’ts, a vibecoding guide, Higgsfield and Higgsfield Katana guides, and using AI tools to grow on LinkedIn, for personal branding, for branding, and for game development.
    • Published the AI and Tech News post for 9 October.
    • Added new ways to share and come back: share the current page, a saved list, a tool of the day, an RSS feed, guide contents and exports.
    • Added the ScrollLaunch badge in the homepage hero next to Product Hunt, and a new flat website thumbnail with updated stats.
    • Added Readdy, Wegic, Durable, Same.new, Anything and 10Web as AI website and app builders.
    • Added UX Pilot, Refs.Gallery, Heroicons Animated, Taste Skill and termcn for UI design, inspiration, animated icons, better agent-built frontends and terminal UI components.
    • Added App Store Screenshots Generator, img2threejs, Ix and OpenDots for coding agents: store screenshots, code-only 3D models, a queryable codebase graph and a persistent agent template.
    • Added Shotreel and Awesome Seedance for looping showcase videos and Seedance 2.0 video prompts.
    • Added ProxyBridge, a free open-source proxy client for routing chosen apps through HTTP or SOCKS5 proxies.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  25. 9 October 2026

    Day 46 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-six days.
    • Published ten new free guides: Claude Dashboards, Claude Motion, Claude Design and Claude Haiku 5.5 guides, saving Claude tokens and ChatGPT usage, spending less on AI tools, Google’s AI tools stack, 100 Claude tips, and 100 SpaceXAI Grok tips.
    • Updated older guides: NotebookLM is now called Gemini Notebook, and Claude Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta.
    • Added two free collections: Free Anti Brain Rot Websites and Free Anti-Slop Websites and Tools, shown as Free picks at the top of the directory.
    • Redesigned the site with a new sticky header, search panel and mobile menu, a rebuilt homepage, flat colour accents and tighter copy.
    • Reviewed and updated every legal document, and affiliate links in listings are now labelled.
    • Brought back the Product Hunt badge on the homepage and in the footer, and the site font is now self-hosted.
    • Added a tech news hub, a productivity tools data report, topic hubs linking related collections and categories, and richer category and resource pages.
    • Added Droppy, Shhepit, Maccelerate and Moorline as Mac apps for the notch, calm resets, faster transitions and customer support.
    • Added Wasdy for managing Claude Code skills and MCP servers from the menu bar.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  26. 8 October 2026

    Day 45 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-five days.
    • Published ten new free guides: Grok Bot vs Meta Muse vs OpenAI Dots, making money with AI videos, making money with Meta Muse, 50 do’s and don’ts for vibe coders, the best AI tools for a faceless social media business, businesses and 100 professions AI tools will not replace, Claude vs ChatGPT vs Grok vs Gemini, and the best AI image and video generation models right now.
    • Published AI and Tech News for 7 October and 8 October.
    • Added a video tour page for the homepage explainer video.
    • Fixed Search Console indexing issues.
    • Added Better Codex, AI Agent Session Center, skillshare, Meta_Kim, VexJoy Agent, Pi Herdsman, deepseek-harness-jev, video-shotcraft and the gradually.ai Claude Code Skills Directory for running and extending coding agents.
    • Added Honeycomb, MIRA OS and Wiki Graph for agent memory and knowledge bases.
    • Added String, Uni-CLI, tlgr, OpenMausBot, SpaceO and DeskVNC for agents that operate apps, browsers and computers.
    • Added Aceternity UI, Magic UI, Motion Primitives, Uiverse, mcpcn, Koven Animated Icons, 3dicons, Viewport UI and Agent Native Video Graphics for interface components, icons and design inspiration.
    • Added NuGuard, WFGY, Awesome AI SRE, bunqueue, Altium Designer MCP and Antigravity CLI Statusline for AI reliability, security and developer tools.
    • Added IDEM for business plans and pitch decks, and IELTS Practice for exam preparation.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  27. 7 October 2026

    Day 44 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-four days.
    • Published nine new free guides: a Google Nano Banana 2.1 guide, Nano Banana 2.1 in any business, a Claude Cowork guide, the 20 best Claude MCPs, ten Claude prompts to create videos, ten Claude prompts to edit videos, ten Grok bots you can build, 20 trending faceless YouTube channel niches, and types of AI-powered one-person businesses.
    • Every resource now has its own page with pros, cons, key facts, alternatives and free alternatives, plus a Featured-on badge with embed code.
    • Added 38 comparison pages: head-to-head comparisons, best free lists and free alternatives pages, with a new compare hub.
    • Guides and articles now link the first mention of each directory resource to its page, and every resource and comparison page has its own share card.
    • Added a floating back-to-top button with a reading-progress ring.
    • Published AI and Tech News for 6 October.
    • Added Dataview, Excalidraw for Obsidian, Copilot for Obsidian, Smart Connections, Templater, Kanban for Obsidian and Tasks for Obsidian for notes and tasks in Obsidian.
    • Added GoodCart, Shoot.Design, Pushkeen.AI, abtest.design and Morphin Inspirations for design and product inspiration.
    • Added Tween UI, SHIUI, AnimateIcons, page-mascot and React Frontend Skills for interface components and frontend work.
    • Added Foremerge, NodeDB, CRG, Ponytail and Meta Skill for coding agents and agent memory.
    • Added AI Engineer Headquarters, Awesome Opus 5.5 Videos and OpenASM for learning and security.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  28. 6 October 2026

    Day 43 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-three days.
    • Published nine new free guides: Grok Bot in any business and for business growth, Claude Code for content creation and for marketing, OpenAI Codex for marketing, AI tools for podcasting, the complete AI tool stack for one-person businesses, the 20 best Claude plugins, and 20 Grok Bot prompt templates.
    • Added Pensyve, LaPis, Engraphis, Hermes Bot Forge, Agent Orchestra, Aeon, OpenAgentCore, Anvia, Airbyte Agent SDK, HarnessRouter Starter Kit and Awesome Agentic AI for agent memory, multi-agent work and agent frameworks.
    • Added mcptoon, 365 Skills, Agent Rules, Coding Agent Account Manager, Legal Skills Open, FlyAI Skill, Awwwards MCP, Graph-It-Live, open-slide, DaC and audiocn for coding agents, skills and developer tooling.
    • Added SiteInspire, DesignSPO, Land-book, Landing.Gallery, SaaS Landing Page and Superdesign for design inspiration and AI design.
    • Added Clew, Glyph, Flowsint, Kamra PMS and AnythingLLM Docs for learning, notes, investigations, property management and local AI.
    • Every resource now shows a stored icon, with a flat letter tile as a fallback, and guides, articles, collections, categories, types and goals now have topic icon tiles.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  29. 5 October 2026

    Day 42 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-two days.
    • Published a new AI and technology news post for 5 October.
    • Published two new free guides: how to learn any language faster with AI tools, and how to use Grok Bot for job search.
    • Published four new free guides: a Meta Muse guide, a Grok Bot guide, a Grok Build guide, and how to build your one-person business with AI tools.
    • Added drawio-skill, Claude Agent SDK for Go, funes, ClearAI, OSK System, Obsidian Vault Intelligence, A Fable of Codexes and Claude Code Templates for AI agents, agent memory and Claude Code.
    • Added React Grab, Agentation, Mesurer and Tinte for pointing coding agents at your interface, plus openGym, a self-hosted workout tracker.
    • Guide cards now show one automatic number each, with no numbers in section titles.
    • Tightened the site's security headers and content security policy, and fixed a homepage loading error.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  30. 4 October 2026

    Day 41 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty-one days.
    • Launched Rearrange PDF Pages, a free tool in Tools I've Built for putting the pages of a PDF in a new order. It runs entirely in your browser and collects no data.
    • Published a new AI and technology news post for 4 October.
    • Published ten new free guides: Claude 101, a Claude Skills guide, the 20 best Claude Skills, making money with Claude Skills, how to use AI right, website design with Claude Opus 5.5, making Claude write like you, building an app with Claude, old vs new Claude, and building a faceless YouTube channel with AI tools.
    • Added growth.engineer, book-to-skill, sem, Motifcode, OnionClaw, Disciplined AI Software Development, Agent Foundation, DreamGraph, three.ws, Inspo, Gridex and Proton Mail Bridge Client for AI agents, coding tools and email.
    • Added on.design, Halaska UI, Goated UI, Dockhunt, Briefbox, PersonalSit.es, soundcn and Playlists for design inspiration, interface building and creative practice, plus httpSMS for sending SMS from an Android phone.
    • Added Atmosphere, Trending Claude Skills, ReelMimic, Monte Carlo Agent Toolkit, FastMemory, Hallmark, OxiMux, Dely, tty7, kwin-mcp, Runner, Projektor, Awesome Journal Skills, Power BI Agentic Development and Agents Universe today for AI agents, Claude skills and developer workflows, plus CSS Buttons, BoardUI and Planes for interface components.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Guide pages now show the Built with love call to action only once.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Understand AI’s Economic Future with Anthropic’s Scenarios.

  31. 3 October 2026

    Day 40 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for forty days.
    • Published new AI and technology news posts for 2 October and 3 October.
    • Published ten new free guides: creating videos, editing videos and motion design with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, setting up OpenAI Codex, making money with OpenAI Codex and with Claude Code, an OpenAI Codex and Claude Code guide, building a second brain with Claude, building a business brain with AI, and a complete personal knowledge management guide.
    • Added Career Agents, Busabase, Tiny Engineer, Oh My Fable, Jido AI, AnythingLLM Mobile, Merrymen, Coven, Docker Skills, Tensorlake, Pinloop CLI, Oh My Claude Code, Wazuh MCP Server, Superloopy, Omniseek and Everywhere for AI agents, coding tools and private AI.
    • Added Logopond, Brand Guidelines, Brand New, Abduzeedo, Rebrand Gallery, Spotted in Prod, beUI, Evil Charts and Reverse UI for brand, design and interface inspiration.
    • Added ManyBooks, Project Gutenberg, Open Library and Standard Ebooks as free places to read, plus Awesome Code Docs and Virtual Mac for iPad among yesterday's other curated resources.
    • Added ZCodium, Garden Desk, Multizen Browser, SztuCode, CubePlex, Agentset, Claude Code Studio and A2A Java SDK today.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Sharper page titles for the latest news posts, category pages and the Jev setup guide.
    • Launched Extract PDF Pages, a free tool in Tools I've Built for saving selected pages of a PDF as one new file. It runs entirely in your browser and collects no data.

  32. 2 October 2026

    Day 39 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-nine days.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Make Money with OpenAI Dots.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Use OpenAI Dots for Job Search.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Use OpenAI Dots for Business Growth.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Use OpenAI Dots in Any Business.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Use AI as Your Personal Tutor.
    • Added ccmux, The Pair, Agent Console, OpenCastle, agnix, JFrog Boost, Distill, OpenGUI and Dais for running, watching and configuring AI coding agents.
    • Added SmythOS Studio, Tracely, Uber ADR, AFDocs, Atomic Mail Agentic, Awesome Jev Live and vibe-to-ui for building, testing and securing agent systems.
    • Added Design for B2B, A1 Gallery, SearchSystem, Umanmade, Logggos, UNCUT.wtf and SparkBites for design and typography inspiration.
    • Added Paper Shaders, tweakcn, DialKit, NumberFlow, Anicon and ASCII Magic for polishing interfaces.
    • Added Myna Recorder, ReClip, Mirobody, SeaLeap Amazon Skills, Django ORM Lens and OpenDraft among yesterday's other curated resources.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Added related-article links, more free guides, a Resource Types page and a generated sitemap so every page is easier to find.

  33. 1 October 2026

    Day 38 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-eight days.
    • Published a new free guide, How to Use AI for Personal Knowledge Management.
    • Added Orkas, Cezar, agent-deck, Claude Code Agent Monitor, bloks, Octop, Noodle, Arcbox, Everruns, OmniCoreAgent, Muxi, AgentPipe, Otelyssey and TokenJam for running, watching and scaling AI agents.
    • Added obsidian-mind and Operon for Obsidian-based agent memory and tasks, plus PaperGraph MCP, MaverickMCP and Harvard's Machine Learning Systems textbook for research and learning.
    • Added Quicksilver, Snapzy, Kap, Xnapper, Compresto, Capsomnia and Macfolio for Mac screenshots, screen recording, compression and discovery.
    • Added Shoogle, AI Canvas, Velora UI, VantaUI, UI/UX Pro Max Skill, Minimal Gallery, Sendra, QuickPick, ASCIInator, Gradientool and Clone Wars for interface design and inspiration.
    • Added Phil, Lemo Opuscar, Paxeer X Network, FreeToken, Converge and ru-text among yesterday's other curated resources.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.
    • Launched Protect PDF, a free tool in Tools I've Built that locks a PDF with a password using AES-256 encryption. It runs entirely in your browser and collects no data.
    • Launched Rotate PDF, a free tool in Tools I've Built for fixing sideways or upside-down pages. It runs entirely in your browser and collects no data.
    • Launched Remove PDF Pages, a free tool in Tools I've Built for deleting pages from a PDF. It runs entirely in your browser and collects no data.
    • Renamed Guides to Free Guides and Tools I've Built to Free Tools I've Built, so it is clear every guide and tool is free to use.
    • Technical SEO clean-up: shorter page titles and tighter meta descriptions, a new Resource Types page so every type is easy to find, and tidier outbound links. Defunct listings whose sites no longer exist were removed.

  34. 29 September 2026

    Day 36 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-six days.
    • Added fast.ai, Google Machine Learning Crash Course, DeepLearning.AI, CS50 AI with Python, Hugging Face Learn, Kaggle Learn and Elements of AI for hands-on AI learning.
    • Added Aweb, Agents Can Communicate, Caliper, Agent Dispatcher, ActiveGraph and Agent Memory for coordinating and evaluating AI-agent work.
    • Added Dither Garden, Pointilliser, Dither Me This, Halftone Maker, 8bitcn/ui, Amicro and Shadcn UI Kit for image treatments and interface design.
    • Added Skillry Opus 5.5 Videos, DeskRPG, ElevenLabs CLI, SkySend and How To Secure A Linux Server among yesterday's other curated resources.
    • Published a new roundup of selected resources added yesterday.

  35. 28 September 2026

    Day 35 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-five days.
    • Added Appllama, Page Flows, Appkittie and Appshots for studying real app designs, user journeys and mobile-app markets.
    • Added GAAI Framework, LintLang, AgentReach and Agent Sphere for building, reviewing and coordinating AI-agent workflows.
    • Added walkerOS, Stabilize, GCF and RubyLLM for event tracking, workflow execution, structured AI data and Ruby-based AI development.
    • Added Coval Benchmarks, Bolna and Aurora for voice-AI evaluation, phone agents and incident investigation.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  36. 27 September 2026

    Day 34 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-four days.
    • Added What Ships for studying startup launch videos, TaskView for self-hosted task management and Mulmoclaude for local-first personal AI assistance.
    • Added Flyto Core, Django Orbit, Threadport, Agentlas OS and Railtracks for verifiable automation, debugging and more organized AI-agent workflows.
    • Added Balsa UI, Springs Studio, Meshfont, ForgeUI, Spline, Unicorn Studio, Paper and 21st for design systems, motion, typography and interface building.
    • Added CoSAI Risk Map, Agent Rules Skill, AI-First Toolkit, LiveContext CE and more resources for AI safety, skills and automation.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  37. 26 September 2026

    Day 33 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-three days.
    • Added Agentsmith, Open Supermarkets, Wake, Bento and Context Loader for agent workflows, everyday tasks, offline office work and cleaner coding context.
    • Added Prismor, nono, Agent Governance Toolkit, Agent Control Standard, Govern and Writ for controlling and reviewing AI-agent actions.
    • Added SkillNet, Skillware, Claude Skills Collection, Knowledge Agent Template and Awesome Multi-Agent Orchestrators for reusable skills and knowledge-grounded agents.
    • Added Sentio, Oracle VecDB Python SDK, Sphere SDK, DomA, UniFace, ainovel-cli and more specialist developer and creative resources.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  38. 25 September 2026

    Day 32 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-two days.
    • Added Excalidraw CLI, Storybook, Motion, GSAP, Coded Visuals and Kombai Selects for diagrams, interface development, animation and design-to-code workflows.
    • Added React Bits, Kokonut UI, Toggles.dev, Uizze, Amicons, Unikist and before.click for interface components, icons and visual inspiration.
    • Added AgentsDock, Guardana, Wife, Kipi System, Armory, Agent LSP, Pipelex and Sandbase Harness for AI agents, memory, security and reliable development workflows.
    • Added catchup, call.md, Kane CLI, Pi Desktop, OMNI, Kong, dshcloud, PureMac, Awesome AI Governance and Awesome Jev Projects across automation, communication, research and developer productivity.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  39. 24 September 2026

    Day 31 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty-one days.
    • Added Gawkbot, ClawBench, Nirvana-OS Engine, CoCo Super Intelligence and Containarium for AI automation, evaluation, orchestration and safer agent execution.
    • Added OneWave Claude Skills, EGC and Awesome Meta Muse Agent for reusable skills, shared coding-agent context and practical automation briefs.
    • Added Morflax Studio, Keyline Icons, ObsidianUI, Spectrum UI, Transitions.dev, Godly and Deck.gallery for faster visual design, interface work and presentation research.
    • Added StackQL, Bolt Slides, Tiiny Host, Human Atlas, Awesome Jev and Kobra Input OTP across cloud workflows, presentations, publishing, learning and interface development.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  40. 23 September 2026

    Day 30 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for thirty days.
    • Added oc for turning websites into compact, agent-friendly command-line tools with lower token use.
    • Added Open Infrastructure Map for exploring power, telecom, petroleum, water and other infrastructure data from OpenStreetMap.
    • Added Genie and gptme for structured autonomous coding and persistent terminal-based AI assistance.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  41. 22 September 2026

    Day 29 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-nine days.
    • Added a deep learning and machine-learning study shelf including Dive into Deep Learning, micrograd, nanoGPT, Zero to Hero, Mathematics for ML, Stanford CS 229 cheatsheets and Spinning Up.
    • Added design resources including Detail, Toolcraft, Pryzm, Valessa, Book of Shapes and Iconly for product design, backgrounds, 3D visuals, generative patterns and icon inspiration.
    • Added AI-agent and developer tools including MatrixOne, Claude Ops, slackcli, Speakr, Stop Slop, Compass, AgentGlass and The Art of Command Line.
    • Added self-hosted and systems tools including StateWave, Ossium, Mimik, Raven, agtx, Swarm, Redamon, Portracker, Oya Browser, BrainAPI and vphone-ws.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  42. 21 September 2026

    Day 28 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-eight days.
    • Added a large collection of AI-agent, terminal and developer resources including navi, Click, Claude Code Game Studios, Fast GraphRAG, snow-cli and handmux.
    • Added Dormice, OpenHarness, TokenOps, Self-Media Compliance Review and Composerize for agent sandboxes, harness workflows, token governance and media compliance.
    • Added microcharts and Upscayl for inline React charts and free AI image upscaling.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  43. 20 September 2026

    Day 27 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-seven days.
    • Added UI Skills and uncoverLAB for interface craft, Figma components, app flows and design inspiration.
    • Added new AI-agent, research and knowledge resources including Council of High Intelligence, FinAI Research, Awesome Academic Research Skills and Obsidian Second Brain.
    • Added practical creator and developer tools including AutoClip, shadercn, Ghostty, MonitorControl, PixelRAG, DeepTeam and pdfcn.
    • Published a new roundup of the best resources added yesterday.

  44. 19 September 2026

    Day 26 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-six days.
    • Added Compositor, ServerKit and Superstreamer for image editing, self-hosted app management and video streaming workflows.
    • Added Kitaru, ASO Skills, Startup Skill, FFmpeg Skill and Agent Skills Workflow Template for AI evaluation, app growth, startup research and agent-assisted work.
    • Added 1000UserGuide, Aliens Eye and several new design, marketing and creator resources.
    • Published a new roundup of the best recent directory additions.

  45. 18 September 2026

    Day 25 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-five days.
    • Added Devault — Web to Figma, Agentfiles and Shadcnblocks Vue for design capture, AI-agent workflows and Vue interface building.
    • Added eight official Anthropic skills for frontend design, themes, brand guidelines, canvas design, skill creation, web artifacts, algorithmic art and web app testing.
    • Added Figma to Code and a broad collection of UI libraries, design references and practical developer resources.
    • Published a new roundup of the best recent directory additions.

  46. 17 September 2026

    Day 24 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-four days.
    • Added ResumeMaker.Online, PreviewMyProfile and GeneratePPT for creating job applications, checking social profiles and building presentations.
    • Added BrowserSkill, My Brain Is Full Crew and Open Code Review for browser automation, personal knowledge support and AI-assisted code review.
    • Added fresh open-source resources for browser agents, voice creation, video workflows and productivity learning.
    • Published a new roundup of the best recent directory additions.

  47. 16 September 2026

    Day 23 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-three days.
    • Added a large batch of new directory resources, including free AI and machine learning learning paths, open-source video and agent tools, design and UI collections and classic how-to sites.
    • Added a new browser-only Growth Marketing Ideas generator to the tools section.
    • Added new visual guides and AI image prompts, plus new website and mobile app design samples.
    • Directory links now carry a simple referral tag so listed sites can see the traffic came from here.
    • Published a new roundup covering everything added recently.

  48. 15 September 2026

    Day 22 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-two days.
    • Added an Ask AI section with ready-made links for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Grok, plus direct links to the site's machine-readable resources.
    • Added the live DataFa.st dashboard directly above the footer with real-time updates enabled.
    • Replaced the previous Product Hunt placements with the latest official badge and product card, and removed the My videos section.
    • Published a new roundup covering the newest directory resources and site additions.

  49. 14 September 2026

    Day 21 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty-one days.
    • Added the ScrollLaunch badge to the homepage hero and footer, linking to the Best Productivity Resources listing on ScrollLaunch.
    • The badge is included in the server-rendered homepage so it is visible in the raw page source.
    • Published a new roundup of the latest additions and site updates.

  50. 13 September 2026

    Day 20 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twenty days.
    • Added Wellmade and Bencho to the directory for curated creative inspiration and interactive UI examples.
    • Added four visual guides covering powerful websites, Alex Hormozi lessons, AI image generation and AI video generation.
    • Improved Compress PDF so text-first pages keep their original PDF structure while image-heavy pages are compressed.
    • Updated the Product Hunt placements and published a new roundup of the latest additions.

  51. 12 September 2026

    Day 19 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for nineteen days.
    • Added ECC Tools, AutoClips, Flick, Rakazo and Shrimply to the directory, each linking directly to its original site.
    • Added a private, browser-only Compress PDF tool that reduces PDF file sizes locally without uploading or storing documents.
    • Published a new article rounding up the newest resources and site additions.

  52. 11 September 2026

    Day 18 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for eighteen days.
    • Published a new article covering the latest directory resources and recent site additions.
    • Added a private, browser-only Split PDF tool that creates separate PDF files without uploading or storing documents.
    • Added new AI prompts, AI images, visual guides, website designs, mobile app designs and an interactive 3D pizza project.
    • Updated the legal disclosures for browser-only tools and refreshed search and AI discovery files.

  53. 10 September 2026

    Day 17 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for seventeen days.
    • Added Web Dev Resources, Scroll Launch and Product Hunt to the directory.
    • Added the Apple Event September 2026 summary to the visual guides section.
    • Published a new post rounding up the newest resources and site updates.
    • The personal card builder now handles photo uploads much faster.
    • Legal pages and search engine details were reviewed again and kept current.

  54. 9 September 2026

    Day 16 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for sixteen days.
    • Sponsored slots are now numbered 1 to 5 on the top and left, and 6 to 10 on the bottom and right, on both desktop and mobile.
    • New reading and writing resources were added, including Naval, Dan Koe Letters, High Agency Essays, Dan Curtis Go and Eden.
    • Legal pages and search engine details were reviewed again and kept current.

  55. 8 September 2026

    Day 15 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for fifteen days.

  56. 7 September 2026

    NoSignups added to the directory

    • Added NoSignups, a curated directory of open-source, browser-based tools that require no signup.
    • It links directly to the original site and is tagged for privacy-focused productivity and research.

  57. 6 September 2026

    Six new developer and AI tools

    • Added Dropfolio, Nuxt Charts, OpenRun, DashboardStack, UseFastAI and DashboardStack Studio to the directory.
    • All six link directly to their original sites and cover portfolios, charts, runbooks, dashboards and AI utilities.
    • They also appear in the relevant collections for developers, creators and no-code builders.

  58. 6 September 2026

    Day 12 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for twelve days.

  59. 4 September 2026

    New design inspiration and UI resources

    • Added Collect UI, Sona UI, Nicefolios, Looogos and Noiced to the directory.
    • All five link directly to their original sites and are tagged for design, research and inspiration.
    • Recent additions also include Pryzm, Orb, Refero Styles, Design.md, Open Design AI, Aura Build, Neuform AI, DesignMD by Hyperbrowser, TypeUI and Posts.design.

  60. 4 September 2026

    Day 11 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for eleven days.

  61. 2 September 2026

    Day 9 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for nine days.

  62. 1 September 2026

    Day 8 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for eight days.

  63. 1 September 2026

    Added a support button

    • Added a 'Support my work' button that links to a Gumroad coffee page.
    • The button appears in the homepage hero, header, footer, directory, contact page, submission page, changelog and Shushant Lakhyani's portfolio page.
    • Support is optional and helps keep the directory curated and updated.

  64. 31 August 2026

    Day 7 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for seven days.

  65. 31 August 2026

    15 new design and inspiration resources

    • Added Design Minis, Posts.design, CollectUI, 60fps.design, OGFolio, Seesaw, Reelfolio, Shotbase, Kitbitz, Rare UI, Morphicons, Hano, Beyond UI, Raylight and a Dan Koe post on focus.
    • Published a listicle covering all fifteen and who each one suits.
    • The homepage now opens with the ten most recently added resources and a see more option.
    • Sidebar navigation is now plain text links without icons for a cleaner look.

  66. 30 August 2026

    Day 6 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for six days.

  67. 29 August 2026

    New article: everything you get from Best Productivity Resources

    • Published a listicle covering every feature, section and benefit the directory offers.
    • Added to the articles index and linked from the latest articles section on the homepage.

  68. 29 August 2026

    Submissions now go through LinkedIn

    • Replaced the submission form with a direct LinkedIn message to Shushant Lakhyani.
    • Updated the how to submit page, sidebar, footer, privacy policy and terms to match.

  69. 28 August 2026

    New resource: Bloop

    • Added Bloop, a desktop app for turning product screenshots and clips into polished motion videos.
    • Listed under communication and remote-work friendly creator tools.

  70. 28 August 2026

    New article: Grok Bot cross-posting and video-to-X articles

    • Published a breakdown of Nevo David's Grok Bot workflow using Postiz.
    • Covers cross-posting X posts to Bluesky and LinkedIn, and turning videos into X articles.

  71. 28 August 2026

    Five new Grok Bot and AI bot resources

    • Added Grok Bot Masterclass, Awesome Grok Bot, Grok Bot Documentation, Use Grok Bot and Bot Directory.
    • All five are free to access and grouped under AI productivity.

  72. 28 August 2026

    New article: 70+ hours with Grok Bot

    • Published a plain summary of the viral X post about spending 70+ hours with Grok Bot and why long AI work sessions beat scattered prompts.
    • Added practical steps for turning a chatbot into a deep-work collaborator in one 90 minute block.

  73. 28 August 2026

    10 powerful new productivity resources

    • Added Akiflow, Amie, Superlist, Calendly, Fireflies.ai, Trello, Asana, Google Gemini, Cursor and Evernote.
    • Published a companion article breaking down who each of the ten is actually for.

  74. 28 August 2026

    Day 4 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for four days.

  75. 27 August 2026

    Day 3 since launch

    • Best Productivity Resources is now live for three days.
    • Fresh resources continue to be added daily and logged here.
    • The directory stays curated, link-free and focused on practical productivity.

  76. 26 August 2026

    Browse by goal and smarter search

    • Added a Browse by Goal section with curated bundles for eight outcomes, each with a short playbook.
    • Search now understands plain language, so you can describe your problem instead of guessing keywords.
    • Search results explain briefly why each resource matched.
    • Added a clean public data export of the directory in JSON and CSV.

  77. 26 August 2026

    Fresh resources added daily

    • New productivity resources are now added to the directory every day.
    • Every new listing is checked against the directory taxonomy and duplicates are removed before it goes live.
    • Existing curated resources stay exactly as they are and always appear first.
    • Listings never show where a resource was found, only the resource itself.

  78. 26 August 2026

    Updated site thumbnail for light mode

    • Replaced the social sharing preview image with a light mode screenshot of the website.
    • OpenGraph and Twitter Card image tags now point to the new 1200x630 thumbnail.

  79. 26 August 2026

    Removed the upvote feature

    • Upvote buttons and the most upvoted ranking page have been removed from the whole site.
    • Resources are now sorted purely by curation, rating and popularity.

  80. 26 August 2026

    Added a How to Submit page

    • Added a short page explaining that all submissions now go through one public Google Form, with a prominent button to open it.
    • Every submit link across the sidebar, footer and homepage now opens the form in a new tab.
    • If a browser blocks the new tab, the form address is shown inline with a copy button so nobody gets stuck.
    • The page is linked in the sidebar and footer.

  81. 26 August 2026

    Added 10 best ways to make money online

    • Added a new page ranking the ten best ways to make money online, each with a score out of 100 and a star rating out of 5.
    • Methods are ranked from best to worst based on accessibility, speed to first income, income potential and scalability.
    • The page is linked in the sidebar and includes freelancing, content creation, digital products, affiliate marketing, e-commerce and more.
    • Published a matching blog post with the full breakdown and no images.

  82. 26 August 2026

    Day 2: 10 new YouTube videos added

    • Added ten recently published YouTube videos worth watching to accelerate your career.
    • They cover only self-improvement, AI, technology, learning and online business.
    • A new resource type for videos was added so they can be filtered on their own.
    • They are also grouped together in a new collection of career-accelerating videos.
    • Published a new article summarising all ten and what each one gives you.

  83. 26 August 2026

    Day 2: 10 new productivity resources added

    • Today is day 2 since launch. Best Productivity Resources went live on 25 August 2026.
    • Added Raindrop.io, CleanShot X, ClickUp, Fathom, Craft, Focusmate, Rize, Bear, n8n and Tally to the directory.
    • Each one was checked on its current website and none of them repeat anything already listed.
    • They also appear in the relevant collections for students, creators, remote workers, entrepreneurs, free resources and AI tools.
    • Published a new article covering all ten and who each one suits.
    • New resources will keep being added daily and logged here.

  84. 25 August 2026

    Added 10 new productivity resources

    • Added Granola, Motion, Reclaim.ai, NotebookLM, Otter.ai, Descript, Tana, Grammarly, Miro and Glasp to the directory.
    • Each one was researched and checked on its current website, and none of them repeat anything already listed.
    • They also appear in the relevant collections for students, creators, remote workers, entrepreneurs, free resources and AI tools.
    • Published a new article covering all ten and who each one suits.

  85. 25 August 2026

    Added Refero Styles

    • Added Refero Styles to the directory under Web App.
    • It collects over 2,000 real design systems and turns them into DESIGN.md examples for AI agents.
    • Best for developers, designers, creators and no-code builders who want AI-generated interfaces to look polished.

  86. 25 August 2026

    Added 10 more powerful productivity tools

    • Added RemNote, Read AI, Reflect, Screen Studio, AFFiNE, Pieces, Base44, Bolt, Shortwave and Recall to the directory.
    • Each one was checked on its current website and none of them repeat anything already listed.
    • They also appear in the relevant collections for students, creators, remote workers, entrepreneurs and AI tools.
    • Published a new article walking through all ten and who each one suits.

  87. 25 August 2026

    Added SuperX Blog for Twitter and X growth

    • Added the SuperX Blog to the directory under Blogs.
    • SuperX shares practical guides for growing on Twitter and X, building an audience and creating better content.

  88. 25 August 2026

    Added Mindstream newsletter

    • Added Mindstream, a daily AI newsletter, to the directory under Newsletters.
    • Mindstream helps readers stay informed on the latest AI developments with practical, productivity-focused takeaways.
    • This is still day 1 of launch, and new resources will keep being added and logged here.

  89. 25 August 2026

    Day 1: launch day

    • Best Productivity Resources officially launched on 25 August 2026. This is day 1.
    • The full hand-verified directory of productivity tools, apps, AI tools, courses, books and other resources is now open to everyone.
    • Search, filters, categories, collections, articles, upvotes and this update log are all live from day 1.
    • New resources and updates will be added from today onwards and logged here.

  90. 24 August 2026

    Undo for upvotes

    • Upvotes can now be undone with a single tap, so accidental votes are easy to reverse.
    • Vote counts update instantly and roll back if something goes wrong.
    • Added this public update log and linked it across the site.

  91. 23 August 2026

    Search that predicts what you need

    • Added autocomplete and typeahead suggestions to the sitewide search bar.
    • Suggestions cover resources, categories, resource types and tags.
    • Full keyboard navigation for the suggestion list.

  92. 22 August 2026

    Sitewide search and filters

    • Introduced a search bar available from every page.
    • Added filters for category, resource type, tags and pricing.
    • Filters stay in the page address, so a filtered view can be shared or bookmarked.

  93. 21 August 2026

    Community upvotes

    • Replaced saved bookmarks with community upvotes.
    • Upvoting works without signing up, with basic protection against repeat voting.
    • Most popular sorting now reflects real upvotes.

  94. 20 August 2026

    Sidebar layout and cleaner navigation

    • Moved navigation into a fixed sidebar on desktop and a slide-in menu on mobile.
    • Homepage now opens straight into featured resources.
    • Tightened alignment and spacing across phones, tablets and desktops.

  95. 19 August 2026

    Know about Shushant Lakhyani page

    • Added a dedicated personal page covering work in AI content, content marketing and no-code building.
    • Added quick access to it from the sidebar, footer and homepage.

  96. 18 August 2026

    Direct-to-source listings

    • Every listing now opens the original source directly instead of an in-between page.
    • Removed individual pages for tools and resources to keep browsing fast.

  97. 17 August 2026

    Visual identity

    • Locked the site to a pure dark theme.
    • Added the mascot portrait as the logo and used it across key sections.
    • Added verified badges, emojis and clearer borders for easier scanning.

  98. 16 August 2026

    Build started

    • Work on Best Productivity Resources began ahead of the 25 August 2026 launch.
    • Launched with a hand-verified directory of productivity tools, apps, AI tools, courses, books and other resources.
    • Shipped browsing by category, resource type and curated collections.