{"id":10291,"date":"2016-06-28T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=10291"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T07:21:47","slug":"tools-i-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/06\/28\/tools-i-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools I use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write reviews of all the tools I use.<\/p>\n<h3>Chat \/ communication tools<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>HipChat \u2013 This is what we use as an office communications tool. We started using it I think before Slack became popular, and we never really\u00a0bothered to make the switch. It seems to work alright most of the time. It occasionally hangs \/ crashes, and is slightly annoying with the way it handles images, but all in all it&#8217;s alright. I personally prefer Telegram as a chat interface.<\/li>\n<li>Slack \u2013 I use this sometimes \u2013 to keep track of things going on with Statement, and I&#8217;m also in a couple of other groups \u2013 Singapore entrepreneurs, Shopify entrepreneurs, etc. I also have a personal slack group with just me in it, where I keep track of my own stuff.\u00a0I&#8217;d like to use it more, but it&#8217;s a little laggy and that annoys me. Still, just keeping it around.<\/li>\n<li>Skype \u2013 I use this when I need to take a video call for work or something like that. And I used it with my wife whenever one of us was abroad.<\/li>\n<li>Telegram \u2013 my favorite chat tool. Intuitive, simple, has fun stickers, GIF support, good search, has a good desktop client.<\/li>\n<li>Messenger \u2013 I like being able to message people on Facebook, and again, people that I&#8217;m not even friends with \/ don&#8217;t have their number etc.<\/li>\n<li>Whatsapp \u2013 was a huge game-changer when it first came out, but I much prefer Telegram now. Still use it because of laggards, family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social media<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter.\u00a0My favorite thing about Twitter is that it&#8217;s so socially acceptable to just reach out to complete strangers on it. It&#8217;s the most &#8220;talk to me&#8221; place. It&#8217;s where you&#8217;d ask someone for their email.\u00a0I&#8217;ve actually invited Twitter friends over to my place via DM without ever getting their phone numbers. What&#8217;s annoying is how shitty the discovery options are. I&#8217;d really like to use Twitter to keep making new friends, but Twitter doesn&#8217;t do a good job of helping me do that. There&#8217;s a bunch of cool stuff you can do with Twitter search. I wish I had better used Twitter as a log of sorts. I&#8217;ve been meaning to go through my archives. Wonder if I ever will.<\/li>\n<li>Tumblr \u2013 I used to use it to share inside jokes with friends, but that got quite time-consuming and I\u00a0somehow weaned myself off of it. I now use a new account to keep track of links and quotes, as a sort of extended mind dump. So far so good.<\/li>\n<li>Facebook.\u00a0It&#8217;s remarkable how much longevity the main Facebook app has had. I particularly enjoy using Messenger to talk with friends. My wife has some amazing Groups that she&#8217;s a part of, which I&#8217;m really jealous of. Most groups are really shit because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/communities\">nobody knows how to manage communities<\/a>. I wish I could get more out of my Facebook experience.<\/li>\n<li>Quora. I used to love it but I barely use it anymore. Too many lousy questions and not enough good answers \u2013 at least that&#8217;s what it looks like\u00a0when I log in, and I&#8217;m not interested in wading through all of that. I&#8217;ll just read good stuff when people point me to it.<\/li>\n<li>Imgur \u2013 I don&#8217;t really care for the community I just go there for the reasonably reliable funny pictures.<\/li>\n<li>Reddit \u2013 I feel like there should definitely be some better subreddits that I could be on that I&#8217;m not currently on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>GTD tools<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Trello. Currently my favorite of all the tools, and the one I use the most. It&#8217;s good because you can have multiple lists and move cards from list to list (unsorted -&gt; todo -&gt; doing -&gt; done), and you can elaborate a lot on the lists.<\/li>\n<li>Asana \u2013 used it before, got tired of it because it seemed to be unnecessarily complicated and complex. Still have an account. I liked the visual aspect of their rebrand but never really found a good reason to get back into it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publishing tools<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress \u2013 This is what this blog is built on, as well as my company \/ work blog. And really the only thing I use. I don&#8217;t like it though. I find it overly messy, tedious, clunky.<\/li>\n<li>Medium \u2013 I have posted some things to it before \u2013 my Mean Girls post in particular did really well over there.\u00a0I like the writing interface. But I don&#8217;t like the user experience. And I&#8217;m not a big fan of the users themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Others<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Analytics<\/li>\n<li>Google Drive \/ Sheets \/ Docs<\/li>\n<li>Marketo<\/li>\n<li>Whatsapp<\/li>\n<li>FB Messenger<\/li>\n<li>Reddit<\/li>\n<li>Gmail<\/li>\n<li>Evernote<\/li>\n<li>Byword<\/li>\n<li>Scrivener<\/li>\n<li>Scapple<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write reviews of all the tools I use. Chat \/ communication tools HipChat \u2013 This is what we use as an office communications tool. We started using it I think before Slack became popular, and we never really\u00a0bothered to make the switch. 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