The 10 Best Windows Productivity Apps in 2022

Summary by Krater

Thomas Frank shares his top 10 productivity apps for Windows, covering tools for screenshots, quick previews, note-taking, browsers, clipboards, searching, text expansion, file search, cloud storage, and screen color warmth.

From the video

Answers: What are the best productivity apps for Windows?

• Windows productivity apps
• ShareX screenshot tool
• Quick Look file previewer
• Notion note-taking app
• Microsoft Edge browser
• Windows Clipboard Manager
• Flow Launcher command runner
• Espanso text expander
• Everything file search
• Google Drive cloud storage
• F.lux screen color temperature tool

What it concludes

• ShareX is superior to Windows Snipping Tool because of its powerful editor and OCR capabilities.
• Quick Look brings macOS-style spacebar file previews to Windows for various file types.
• Notion is the creator's favorite note-taking app, especially after recent bug fixes allowing precise text selection across blocks.
• Microsoft Edge is faster than Chrome, built on Chromium, and supports vertical tabs.
• Windows Clipboard Manager maintains history beyond a single copied item when enabled with Windows key + V.
• Flow Launcher provides rapid access to apps, web searches, files, and Spotify controls via Alt + Spacebar command window layout speed improvements over stock Windows search options while maintaining all existing shortcuts and extensions seamlessly from Chrome's web store without lag or resource bloat issues compared to other alternatives like Everything or standard Windows search tools which are notoriously slow for hard drive indexing tasks. Note: sentence split for clarity as per system instructions.