Free Social, Collaboration, Productivity Tools + More

I use a bunch of plug-ins and free services across the interwebs. I’ve compiled them here for you. Most of these are deeply integrated into my routine. So, here’s a list of the best free tech services I’ve found. Add them to your own toolbox and step your game up.

If I missed anything, please leave it in the comments. I’ll update this periodically with the best suggestions and other tools I find around the web.

Social Media & Networking

Buffer: allows you to quickly find and schedule sharing across social media networks and measure how well they perform.
Falcon: learn about people by hovering over their names or email address in your inbox or on social media platforms.
Evernote Hello: remembering people is hard. Hello helps you take down information about people and events then makes that history browsable.
Hootsuite: manage multiple profiles and social networks from one convenient dashboard.
Rapportive: replaces Gmail ads with full social media details about your email sender. Rich, awesome.
Streak: CRM for your inbox. Enough said.
Tweetreach: measure just how far your tweets traveled.

Productivity

Any.do: a multi-platform task manager that helps you complete your goals directly within the app. Don’t miss meetings or follow ups again.
Boomerang: a Gmail plugin. Control when you’re going to send and receive messages.
Feedly: my RSS reader du-jour. Simple interface, critical for staying on top of my news.
IFTTT: better if you’re Android, but still awesome with iOS. Create recipes and connect your services across the web.
Instapaper: when you find an interesting web page to read, save it down and read it later in an easy format.
Pocket: an alternative to Instapaper. Save down the same web page but retain all the rich characteristics (video, etc).
RSS Subscription Extension: Google’s plugin that lets you add webpages directly to your Feedly or other RSS reader.
Send to Kindle: Amazon’s multi platform plugin to send documents and web pages directly to your Kindle reader.
Evernote Web Clipper: save anything you see online (text, images, whatever) directly to your Evernote account.

Collaboration

Dropbox: bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
Evernote: help you remember and act upon ideas, projects and experiences across all the computers, phones and tablets you use
Hackpad: take collaborative notes, share data and files, and use comments to share your thoughts in real-time or asynchronously
Trello: collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards.
UberConference: simple visual and audio conference call tool.

+ More

Eventbrite: an alternative to Ticketmaster. Free if your event is free. I use it for Startup Rock Climbing and love it.
MadMimi: create, send, share and track email newsletters online
MailChimp: an alternative to MadMimi. Simple slick interface.
Postatic: in beta as of July 2014, but create your own HackerNews. I’m trying out a few communities.
SellHack: x-ray anyone’s contact information and look up their email addresses online.
SoundCloud: because I love working with music. Check out the Built for the Chill playlists from Thump.
SoundCleod: SoundCloud music player for Mac. Pretty awesome.
Spotify: shouldn’t need to explain this. Refuse to explain this.
Sunrise: it’s completely replaced my Apple calendar. Beautiful and simple.