5 bookmarks: Anton Sidarau
Happy Tuesday! Even in the midst of the heat that has gripped our planet this July, we continue to collect interesting and useful material for you 😎
Today as a guest for the 5 bookmarks project, we invited our friend, Anton Sidarau, who works as a designer at the Right Studio.
My work is related to websites and graphic design. So I study a lot of references and read blogs about design, art, business, project management, productivity and health. I love digging through the archives of pictures and texts, because you never know what you might find. Today I will share several tools and services that I regularly use in my work.
- SiteInspire
The most adequate, in my opinion, site aggregator. All projects are manually moderated, there are convenient filters by categories, areas, and tools. There are both super-concise and conservative examples, as well as bright, and strange ones. I regularly come back to SiteInspire to get inspired by high-quality web design and collect references for new projects.
2. Raindrop.io
Very convenient, flexible, and fast bookmark manager that I have been using for many years. You can store links, files, and pictures, customize the display, save notes for each page, assign tags, and much more. There is both a full-fledged free version and a paid one with additional bonuses, such as nested collections and the search for duplicates or broken links. And there is also an extension for any platform or browser. The most impressive thing is that all this is being developed by one person — designer Rustem Mussabekov.
3. Arhive.Area17
Archive of works of the large design studio Area17. These guys do serious projects and freely share working artifacts. Conveniently, examples of branding and sites with adaptive layouts are collected in one place: you can redraw and learn design from professionals.
4. ambition & balance
I tried several task management tools and settled on Todoist. I have been using it for several years now. Developers have a great blog about productivity, organization, self-development, and remote work. The founder of the company promotes a healthy approach to work and carries out his philosophy through all products. Full-remote, slow-work, work-life balance are all about Doist.
5. Signal vs. Noise
Rework, Remote, Getting Real, Shape Up, Ruby on Rails, Signal vs. Noise, 37signals, Basecamp, Hey — I’m sure any of the readers have heard something from this list. Over a couple of decades, Jason Fried and David Hansson have made several successful products, reimagined the web, and created a whole philosophy of work. I thought for a long time which of their products to place, and settled on the archive of the Signal vs. Noise blog. It is from the blog that their most successful books and approaches to work have grown. In 2021, the founders closed the blog as they switched to their new service Hey, but all archives are available and still relevant. If you work in a digital environment, you will definitely come across their technologies, products, or ideas. It is always interesting to study the original source.
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