Open Source Productivity Tools
Productivity tools help people manage tasks, information, files, and everyday workflows with less friction. They can make it easier to plan projects, capture and organize useful content, coordinate work, perform calculations, and shape a digital workspace around individual or team needs. The right tools reduce repetitive effort and help keep important work visible and accessible.
97 repositories · updated October 17, 2026
zennotes: Manage Markdown Notes with Keyboard-First Tools
ZenNotes is a local-first Markdown notes app for people who prefer plain files, keyboard navigation, and Vim motions. It runs as an Electron desktop app or a self-hosted web app, with search, diagrams, CLI, and MCP integrations.
NewHealth 70/100
Kun: Local-First AI Agent Workspace
Kun is a local-first workspace for using AI agents across coding, writing, design, research, and automation. Its desktop GUI and terminal TUI share one runtime, keeping tasks and approvals connected.
NewHealth 75/100
i-have-adhd: Make Coding Assistant Responses Easier to Scan
i-have-adhd is a skill for coding assistants that makes replies more direct and easier to act on. It suits people who prefer numbered steps, concise answers, and a clear next action without extra preamble or tangents.
NewHealth 60/100
AI-Engineering-Coach: Analyze AI Coding Assistant Usage
AI Engineer Coach analyzes local session logs from AI coding assistants and presents practice, activity, and output insights in a dashboard. It suits developers who want to improve agentic workflows while keeping session data on their machine.
NewHealth 53/100
karpathy-llm-wiki: Build a Citation-Based LLM Knowledge Wiki
An Agent Skills-compatible workflow that turns source material into a maintained Markdown wiki for coding agents. Use it when you want durable, cross-linked knowledge and cited answers rather than retrieving raw documents for every question.
ActiveHealth 21/100
ECC: Equip Coding Agents with Reusable Engineering Workflows
ECC is a toolkit for adding structured engineering workflows to AI coding agents. It combines reusable skills, specialized agents, hooks, memory, and security scanning, with support across Claude Code and several other harnesses.
ActiveHealth 67/100
autoresearch: Run Goal-Driven Improvement Loops with Coding Agents
Autoresearch turns Claude Code, OpenCode, or OpenAI Codex into an agent that makes focused changes, verifies them against a metric, and keeps or reverts each attempt. It suits developers who can define a goal and a mechanical way to measure progress.
ActiveHealth 50/100
product-manager-skills: Add PM Workflows to AI Coding Tools
A reusable Markdown skill that helps Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Windsurf handle product management tasks. Use it for structured discovery, SaaS metrics analysis, PRD reviews, roadmaps, and career coaching.
QuietHealth 21/100
mcp-server-excel: Automate Microsoft Excel with AI
mcp-server-excel lets AI assistants and coding agents automate the real Microsoft Excel application through MCP or a CLI. It suits Windows users who need workbook operations that file parsers cannot perform, such as refreshing Power Query or running VBA.
ActiveHealth 74/100
easy-application: Find Companies With Simpler Job Applications
A curated directory of companies whose application systems are intended to make applying less tedious. Useful for job seekers who want to research employers and career pages, but the archived list may not reflect current hiring or application processes.
ArchivedHealth 36/100
vim-cheatsheet: Find Vim Keyboard Shortcuts Quickly
A categorized reference for Vim and Neovim keyboard shortcuts, from movement and editing to buffers, tabs, windows, and folds. Useful as a quick lookup for learners and experienced users alike.
InactiveHealth 17/100
OfficeCLI: Create and Edit Office Files from the Command Line
OfficeCLI is a cross-platform CLI for AI agents and developers to create, read, edit, and validate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. It combines structured commands, JSON output, and built-in document previews in a self-contained binary.
ActiveHealth 61/100