What are some small/medium budget purchases that significantly boosted your productivity?

Laptop stand to raise laptop screen to use alongside with monitors.

Apart from everything that I bought for work (keyboard, mice etc), I spent some time (time is money!) to write an Xbar (a macOS app) plugin around my daily tasks at work and it now saves me several clicks multiple times a day, thus a considerable productivity boost.

@flat-morning-91037 examples of such tasks?

So my work routine includes; • Keeping an eye on any review MRs (Merge Requests, AKA PR in GitHub terms) coming my way (from team members or community contributors) • Have a quick access to assigned issues • Make sure authored MRs are moving and get merged on time for the upcoming release. • Have a glance at current pipeline status for

master

branch so in case HEAD pipeline is failing, we can immediately take a look at the failure and address it. While I can access all of the above things via GitLab’s web UI, it would require multiple clicks (and filters), this python plugin I wrote makes the information easily available and is refreshed every 15 minutes. And some of the tasks above are responsibilities of maintainers (myself included) so the plugin features are aimed more at maintainers. 🙂

Dude, this is super cool! Could you guide us how could we make one? We use Github, and I have the similar tasks

Writing plugins for xbar is incredibly easy (see https://github.com/matryer/xbar#writing-plugins) and while I used GitLab API using my access token, I’m guessing GitHub has these things exposed via API as well.

xbar is so fucking cool! writing a plugin is literally a piece of cake, thanks for the suggestion @flat-morning-91037