TOOLING
What I (prefer to) use day to day. Not sponsored.
NOTETAKING
Often we're restricted by where we can store notes, keeping us making them in notepad, which isn't great. Dillinger uses all local storage, in a web interface and is client side only. Data doesn't leave your machine, but you get to use the web and power of Markdown. One of my favs.
DIAGRAMS
Another go to tool for me. The diagrams look great but can also do workshopping, release planning, story maps and retros - a true all in one tool
HIGH LEVEL DATA MODELLING
I like this tool, nice and simple. You can persist the designs on the net (stay sensible with how much data is in them - IÂ keep mine generic).
BACKLOG MANAGEMENT
A Microsoft product? Yes. They got something right. No nonsense tickets, in a list with a story point projection line - super handy for predicting velocity. This is my preferred tool, but client adoption is low.
SCREENSHOTS
I love this. Press print, draw notes and add text, some arrows and boxes. Copy to clipboard or save to disk and bam.
SCREEN VIDEOS
Record part or whole of your screen with one button click. Save the video to a GIF, and it'll be sharable in your bug tool or slack with live play with a simple drag and drop.
There are more tools, and I'll be adding these over time...
ONE'S I AVOID
Again. Not paid.
VISIO
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/visio/flowchart-software
Now, it's not bad. It's obviously excellent at flowcharts, but not quite kept up with the needs of today (like remote collaboration)
JIRA
https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
This one is hard to avoid. For delivering software it has too many features, never shipped in a ready to go configuration and has a host of annoying bugs (wysiwyg I mean you)