I am an IAS officer and a mother of 2 daughters. But apart from these 2 responsibilities, I write on twitter, have published newspaper articles, follow world economics, code for ML etc.

10 amazing productivity enhancement tools I use:

1. Print Friendly - The Chrome extension that blew my mind away.

👉 Optimizes webpages to save in pdf format
👉 Removes Junk
👉 Editable preview so you can delete what you don't need

If you don't thank me for this, I will be surprised!!
2. Tiny Wow

👉 Edit photos, pdf files and convert formats etc.

👉 It offers multipe tools to process PDF: edit, split, merge, compress, and much more.

👉 100% free. No hourly limits. No restrictions.
3. Dictation. io

Dictate your emails and documents in Google Chrome in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati etc. Made in India!

No need to type anything! Just speak and you are done!! Saves lot of time.

https://t.co/AVlHj83mGy
4. Google Keep - To do list tool

👉Make To-do lists and tick them
👉Speak a voice memo on the go and have it automatically transcribed.
👉Grab pics/ documents and easily organize or find it later in search.
👉Easily share with anyone
5. Notion

👉Far more than a note-taking app.

👉All-in-one for notes, knowledge management, project management, calendar, databases with filters and lot more.
👉Save tweets, threads automatically
👉More you explore, more you feel its awesomeness!

@NotionHQ
6. Clean Picture

Remove any object, people, text, or defects from your pictures.

https://t.co/gsZvbmHv6f
7. Snapdrop

Instantly share images, videos, PDFs, and links with people nearby.

Peer2Peer and Open Source. No Setup, No Signup.
8. Diffchecker - Compare documents

Use Diffchecker to quickly identify the difference(s) between two versions. of a document, excel file or pdf or image
9. Hemingway

A word editor that grades writing for readability. Helps in removing errors/typos, Cut adverbs, complex words, and long sentences

Try to get readability score below 10!
10. Github Copilot

AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster and with less work.

It draws context from comments and code to suggest individual lines and whole functions instantly.

Not free but awesome
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Many people ask me how I am able to multi-task! The answer is Technology!

10 amazing tools/sites you should start using today:

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1. Dictation. io

Dictate your emails and documents in Google Chrome in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati etc. Made in India!

No need to type anything! Just speak and you are done!! Saves lot of time every day.

https://t.co/AVlHj82OR0


2. Tiny Wow

Edit photos, pdf files and convert formats etc

Moreover, Tiny Wow offers 32 online tools to process PDF: edit, split, merge, compress, and much more.

https://t.co/0oTPNu3kCQ


3. Canva

@canva is an easy-to-use graphic design tool. Choose from hundreds of beautiful templates and designs!

https://t.co/WKEQrCF5J9


4. WolframAlpha

Ever got stuck in Maths - Step by step solutions to Algebra, Plotting functions etc; Chemistry, Physics!! There are loads of other tools as well on finance, geography etc! Just super amazing tool it is @Wolfram_Alpha

https://t.co/YwrIgaHXOr
AI tools for generating/editing images that are absolutely phenomenal:

A thread🧵

1. Stable Diffusion

- Enter any prompt and the AI generates images.
- Add prompts like realistic, oil for style; Picasso, Monet for artist style along with the basic prompt

-Link:
https://t.co/mtbNm3FDkP

Prompt: portal to another reality scifi fantastic hyperrealistic


2. Dream by WOMBO

- If you want to use Stable diffusion on your phone, download this app
- Enter the prompt and choose the style!

Prompt: Path to another world, Style: Salvatore Dali


3. Midjourney

- Awesome model that generates mind-blowing AI images with prompts

- Link: https://t.co/06M5U0HLbX

Prompts:
- Priyanka Chopra in Madhubani painting
- Portal to another reality scifi fantastic
- Sunset
- Love soulmate vibrant eternity timelapse ultrarealistic


4. Photosonic AI

- Another tool with good GUI and generates nice images.

- Link: https://t.co/eAk2bVolVR

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10 insanely useful websites you’ll be kicking yourself you didn’t know (until now):

#1:
https://t.co/0TQkimtKgY

No more expensive photo editors.

Welcome to a free online photo editor in your browser.

What? Yes, that’s right.
• No popups
• No ads
• No cookies
• No account to create
• 100% free

Just select a photo and get going!


#2: https://t.co/mfr6V6kztv

Tame the firehose of information with one daily email that curates all your favourite sources and links in one place.

You’ll get:
• Emails
• Twitter Accounts
• YouTube Channels

Staying on top of good information has never been easier.


#3: https://t.co/rjquIV2eXs

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

Other 'therapists' would badger kids until they invented stories about watching alligators eat babies dropped into a lake from a hot air balloon. Kids would deny anything happened for hours until the therapist 'broke through' and 'found' the 'truth'.

FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.