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Books

Podcasts

Hot Topics 🔥

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Blogs

✅ Matt
✅ We Work Remotely Readings
✅ Google - Working together when were not together
✅ Remote Work Report
✅ Doist - Remote Work
✅ Angel.co - Why Naval Ravikant thinks remote work is the future
✅ Will remote work ever become mainstream?
✅ Hubstaff - Remote
✅ Remote Work Tips
✅ OwlLabs Blog
✅ Trello - Remote Work Guide
✅ Miro Blog
✅ Know your team
✅ Signal v. Noise

Tools

Communication

✅ Google Hangouts
✅ Slack
☑️ Chanty
☑️ CA Flowdock
☑️ Gitter
☑️ IRCCloud
✅ Skype
☑️ Rocket Chat
☑️ Self Hosted Mumble
☑️ Ringcentral Meetings
✅ Zoom
☑️ Twitch, streaming and communication tool
☑️ Twist, eases team communication by keeping conversations organized, structured and on-topic
☑️ Discourse, private forum tool
☑️ join.me - The easiest way to organise group conferences with support for scheduling, video, whiteboarding and screen sharing.
☑️ Leverice
☑️ Involve
☑️ Around
☑️ Grain
☑️ Happeo, An intranet, enterprise social network, and collaboration platform that lets your communications flow seamlessly, making work a happier place for all
☑️ Jitsi
✅ Discord, is a group-chatting platform originally built for gamers that has since become a general use platform for many kinds of communities. Excellent for open-chats

AI Assistant for Your Meetings

☑️ Fireflies.ai, Record, Transcribe and Search across your voice conversations
☑️ Otter.ai, Generate rich notes for meetings, interviews, lectures, and other important voice conversations with Otter, your AI-powered assistant
☑️ Colibri.ai, Colibri.ai records your calls, transcribes them as you speak, and generates concise searchable meeting notes that can be easily shared with teammates.

Virtual Office

☑️ Pragli, Virtual office for remote teams
☑️ Tandem, Re-discover the flow of working together in‑person. See, talk to, and collaborate with your team in one click.
☑️ Teemly, The virtual office truly connecting distributed teams

Collaboration

☑️ PukkaTeam, remote team presence tool.
☑️ Miro
☑️ Standup Bot - Run your standup meetings remotely via Slack and have your meeting notes automatically organised for you.
☑️ I Done This - More than 160,000 people use I Done This’s easy daily check-ins and powerful progress reports to run more effective and productive teams.
✅ Timezone.io - Keep track of 'when' and 'where' your remote team members are. Easily organise meetings at a time suitable for everyone involved.
✅ Dropbox Paper - Collaborate on documents and ideas with your remote colleagues using this flexible workspace.
☑️ Taskade - Create notes, checklists, and outlines with your team. Collaborate and edit together in real-time.
☑️ Quip
☑️ Mural, a digital workspace for visual collaboration
☑️ IdeaFlow
☑️ BeeCanvas

Focus

Knowledge Management

✅ Confluence 🔥
⚪ Document360
⚪ Knowmax
✅ MediaWiki, an open-source solution for knowledge management

Noise Cancelling

☑️ Krisp AI - Noise Cancelling

Security

☑️ 1password, password management
☑️ Cloak - Having a secure VPN service is important when using public wifi networks. Cloak is a great choice in the Apple ecosystem with beautiful apps for Mac and iOS.
☑️ Authy - The best choice for cross platform two-factor authentication.
☑️ Purify - The most efficient app for blocking ads & trackers on iOS.
☑️ Ghostery - Fantastic extension for blocking trackers in all major web browsers.

Backup

✅ Dropbox - The best all-rounder cross platform cloud storage service.
✅ Google Drive - The cheapest cloud storage service currently available.
☑️ BackBlaze - Low-cost and easy-to-use cloud backup for Mac and PC.
☑️ SpiderOak One - Dropbox, Google Drive and Backblaze all take your data security very seriously but if you're especially concerned about privacy then check out the Snowden endorsed SpiderOak.

Time Tracking

☑️ Timing, automatic time and productivity tracking for Mac. Helps you stay on track with your work (especially important when working remotely). Also ensures that no billable hours get lost if you are billing hourly.
☑️ Desktime, time tracking tool.
☑️ Harvest, a timesheet tracking software.
☑️ Toggl, insanely simple time tracking tool.
☑️ Qbserve, automatic productivity tracking, time tracking, and invoice generation for Mac.
☑️ Taskade, a real-time organization and collaboration tool for getting things done.

Languages

✅ Italki
Write and Improve
✅ Google Translate - The big daddy of translation apps with support for over 100 languages and 50 offline languages as well as photo translation - iOS and Android.
☑️ Point It: Traveller's Language Kit - Passport-sized traveler's picture dictionary containing photographs of 1,200 items grouped into categories such as food and drink, accommodation, transportation, automobiles, entertainment, nightlife and health.
☑️ Food Allergy Translate - Mobile apps and physical cards to notify restaurants of your food allergies - iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.
☑️ Fluent In 3 Months - If you've always struggled with learning foreign languages then be sure to check out this great book by Benny Lewis.
✅ Duolingo - The original and arguably most enjoyable language learning app with support for over 20 languages - iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
☑️ Memrise - Not quite as fun as Duolingo but still a solid contender on the language learning scene with support for over 200 languages - iOS and Android.

Interactive Presentations

✅ Mentimeter, Get real-time input from remote teams and online students with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&As and more
⚪ PollEverywhere,Host interactive remote meetings, anywhere.
⚪ Klaxoon

Bots

☑️ GeekBot
☑️ Dailybot

Music

☑️ Noizio - Ambient sound mixer to help you focus in busy places. Parisian Cafe during a thunderstorm? Check! - iOS and Android.
✅ Starbucks-like Music Playlist 2020
✅ Deep Focus Music
✅ Calm App

Extended Display

☑️ Duet Display - Use your iPhone or iPad as an extra display for your Mac or PC - iOS, macOS and Windows.
☑️ spacedesk - Extend or duplicate your Windows display to another device (for free)- iOS, Android, Windows and HTML5 Web browser.

Software Development

Continuous Integration

⚪ CircleCI
⚪ Bamboo
✅ Jenkins, open source CI/CD Server
✅ GoCD, open source CI/CD Server with advanced end-to-end visualization
⚪ GitLab

Project Management

✅ Asana, team collaboration, projects and tasks management.
☑️ Basecamp - Basecamp organizes your projects, internal communications, and client work in one place so you have a central source of truth.
☑️ Standuply, Project Management Assistant

Agile Management

SAFe-ready

✅ Version One, SAFe-ready agile management tool 🔥
✅ CA Agile Central - Rally, SAFe-ready agile management tool 🔥
✅ Pivotal Tracker, for tracking tasks
☑️ GitLab
✅ Jira
✅ Azure DevOps

Scrum-based or Kanban-based

✅ Trello, flexible, and visual way to organize anything with anyone.
☑️ Monday.com
☑️ Taiga
☑️ Wrike

Setup

Preparing your setup

✅ Larry's Fong Blog, Larry is director of photography with large experience. On his blog several great tips are given, it's really like a free pro photography coach

Gadgets and Productivity

International

☑️ Roost Laptop Stand - The original portable back-saving laptop stand.
☑️ Corsair Flash Voyager Mini - Compact and stylish USB key which packs up to 128GB of memory.
☑️ Tortuga Outbreaker Backpack - Pack smart with this second generation Tortuga carry on backpack.
☑️ Minaal Carry-on 2.0 - A (more stylish?) alternative to the Tortuga Outbreaker with similar features. Check them both out and see which you prefer.
☑️ Anker Portable Chargers - USB battery packs are an essential bit of kit these days and you can't go wrong with something from Anker.
☑️ Omnicharge - For a portable charger that packs a bit more punch, check out the Omnicharge with its universal power outlet that will let you charge devices such as laptops in addition to your phone and tablet.
☑️ Logitech MX Anywhere 2s - Logitech have a track record of releasing high quality peripherals and when it comes to portable mice they don't disappoint with the MX Anywhere 2s.
☑️ UE Boom 2 - If you don't mind the extra weight then portable speakers are a great way to turn any room into a home. The UE Boom series consistently comes out top in reviews thanks to great sound, rugged protection and good looks.
☑️ JBL Clip 2 - If you mind carrying extra weight, the JBL Clip 2 is a good option with only 184g. Quality is not as good as a stereo speaker but it still does the job pretty well.
☑️ LaCie Rugged Mobile Storage - Keep your backups safe with a drive from the LaCie rugged series, trusted by professionals across the globe.
☑️ Bose QC20 Noise Cancelling Earphones - Public transport can be a noisy affair but if you have the cash to spare then the QC20s are the best around when it comes to noise cancelling headphones in a small package.
✅ Google Chromecast - Chromecast is a media streaming device that plugs into the HDMI port on your TV. Simply use a compatible mobile, tablet or PC device and the TV in your accommodation to watch your favourite TV shows, films, music, sport, games and more on the big screen
✅ Kindle Paperwhite - Highly portable, easy on the eyes, readable in sunlight, waterproof, instant access to the worlds largest bookstore and capable of holding over 1,000 books – the Kindle Paperwhite provides a great combination of features and affordability.
☑️ Mountie - Clip your smartphone or tablet onto your laptop for a portable dual monitor set up. Works well with
☑️ Duet Display.
☑️ Gerber Shard - Want to take a multi-tool with you but can't get traditional ones past airport security without checked baggage? The Gerber Shard is a great solution to this predicament, packing six useful functions into an airline friendly form-factor.
⚪ Microphone FIFINE K678
⚪ Large Felt Mousepad

Brazil

Well-Being

Ergonomy

✅ Ergonomy E-Book, This ilustrated and well-written e-book was wrote by Jaquelyne Paz, which is Architect and ergonomy consultant

Management

Remote Team Management

Management Playbooks

Global Workforce Management

☑️ Remote.com
☑️ Remote Team
☑️ Pilot.co
☑️ Papaya Global

Finance

Payroll

☑️ Taxes and Payroll

Salary Calculation

☑️ Buffer

Invoice Creation

☑️ Invoice Ninja
☑️ Husky
☑️ Harvest
☑️ BlinkSale

Culture and Guides

News

Reports

Permanent Migration

✅ Twitter and Square
✅ Coinbase
✅ Atlassian
✅ Gitlab
✅ Basecamp
✅ Slack
✅ Zillow

General News and Tips

✅ Why Finland leads the World in Flexible Work
✅ UpWork - Future Workforce report hiring manager insights on flexible and remote work trends
✅ 54% of adults want to work remotely most of the time after the pandemic, according to a new study from IBM
✅ Havard Business Review - Is It Time to Let Employees Work from Anywhere?
✅ Should companies rush headlong into permanent remote work?
✅ Gartner CFO Survey Reveals 74% Intend to Shift Some Employees to Remote Work Permanently
✅ Remote team communication tools
✅ Remote Software Development
✅ What Remote Working Means & The Tools We Use at Buffer, tools used at Buffer.
✅ Work From Home List, an Open List of Work From Home Software & Hardware tools.
✅ Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space
✅ The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically
✅ A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Permanently Flipped Workplace
✅ Estonia Already Lives Online—Why Can’t the United States?
✅ MIT Sloan - Overcoming Remote Work Challenges

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