Non trading utilities
Productivity
- Evernote – note taking application
- Notion - note taking application with advanced functionality
- Office365 – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive – $7 to $10 / month
- iDrive - online backup tool
- CrashPlan -$12.50/month to backup 10 home computers with unlimited cloud storage for backups
- Flux – controls white balance on your monitor
- Pomodoro timers
- EggTimer
- White noise
- Focus@will (paid)
- Brain.fm (free trial)
- Coffitivity – makes it sound like you're in a coffee shop
- Noisli
- FocusMusic
- Ambient mixer
- Creating flow charts:
- Draw.io
Graphics / video
- ShareX – best screenshot snapshot tool, and completely free
- SnagIt – excellent screen snapshot tool ($50; 30 day free trial)
- Loom - free (and paid) screen video recording software
- Screenrec - free screen video recording and screenshot tool
- Camtasia – excellent screencasting and video editing tool ($300; 30 day free trial)
- Davinci Resolve – excellent video editing software, and completely free
- FlashBack Express – free unlimited screencasting
- CamStudio – free unlimited screencasting
- FreeConferenceCall – free online meetings similar to WebEx or GoToMeeting
- Epic Pen – screen drawing tool