Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations

lukeprog

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Given that Less Wrong is a community of unusually intelligent, critical, and self-improvement-focused people, I suspect we can generate a pretty helpful thread of product recommendations — perhaps even a monthly thread of product recommendations.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

ActiveInbox (free, or $25/year for Plus)

GTD for Gmail. The best Gmail productivity tool I've ever found.

To grok ActiveInbox, watch the video. Here are my favorite features:

Keep your inbox empty by doing one of the following to each email: (1) reply and archive, or (2) make it a task with just one click, which moves it to a different folder.
When composing a new email, click 'Waiting on' to flag that you're waiting for a response from the recipient. Later, you can check the emails for which you're waiting on a reply. This way I don't mess up projects because people fail to respond promptly and I forgot that I was waiting on them for the next step.

Those two features alone are worth the setup for me, but ActiveInbox does a lot more than this, too.

Hat tip to Louie for finding this one.

If you use outlook, Outlook 2010 lets you (at least) duplicate these features.

8lukeprog14y

Note also that I only Facebook-gloat over screenshots of my Inbox Zero when all my ActiveInbox task folders are also empty. :)

0wedrifid14y

Looks good. Installed!

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