In my computing environment, I have a set of tools that I rely on because they just make life easier. Here they are in order of (perceived) actual usage.
Ditto is a clipboard manager. It can save up to 1000 of your last "clips". It makes juggling multiple clips easy. It runs with no preceived lag time whatsoever. It might even save your butt someday.
This tool is not only handy, but it's efficient, practical, stable, and essential. And free.
The only suggestion that I would change is to make your Ditto hot keys: Ctrl+` (That's the key above the Tab key and it isn't usually used for anything else.)
Screenshots are essential to communication in the computer age. ShareX is my screen capture tool of choice. It integrates itself nicely by relying on the system's Print Screen button. By simply pressing the Control (Ctrl) button and Print Screen, it freezes your screen allowing you to lasso any region for capture. Once captured, you can annotate the image with highlights, arrows, square boxes, or even obfuscate sections to blur private data.
You have to be able to keep your passwords straight. Keepass is the time tested and reliable way to do so. It isn't the most cutting-edge application, in terms of looks, but it does the job well. There is an Android app (KeepAss Droid) that can also be used. My preference is to keep the Keepass file in a drive that backs up to a cloud storage, which makes the passwords available from other computers, as well as my Android phone.
Another app that syncs with the cloud and is accessible from any device is OneNote. OneNote is great for storing everything I do, documenting everything as a knowledge base, and collaborating as a team.
The organization of data goes very broad with Notebooks, and very deep with tabs and then pages within a tab. You can also group tabs for logical sections.
The search is real time. This means that I can quickly search for a server name, employee name, ticket request number, etc., and see every note with that search term. Also, pasted text is also searched using OCR.
The benefits and practicalness of OneNote go on and on. The purpose of this is only to expose you to it. The research from here on out is up to you.
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