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awesome-curated-tools

A curated list of digital tools we use, ranging from accounting and data science to scientific research and liquid democracy. Commented, connected, by everyone and for everyone !
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  • References

  • Scientist Tools

  • Introduction

  • Design Tools

    • Creative Cloud - A set of applications and services from Adobe Systems that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services via a monthly or annual subscription service.
    • Infogram - A web-based data visualization and infographics platformthat allows people to make and share digital charts, infographics and maps. Infogram offers an intuitive WYSIWYG editor that converts users’ data into infographics that can be published, embedded or shared. Users do not need coding skills to use this tool.
    • WeVideo - Make and share videos using WeVideo's cloud-based online video editing software, to capture, create, view and share your movies.
    • Aesop Story Engine - A collection of thirteen unique components wrapped in a plugin that can be used to present rich, interactive stories or articles in any WordPress theme.
    • Bubble.is - Introduces a new way to build a web application with its point-and-click programming tool, entirely without code. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform.
    • WebFlow - A cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) that allows designers to build production-ready, responsive websites without any coding knowledge required, allowing designers to accomplish most aspects of web development and website distribution through a visual editor that provides the pixel-for-pixel design precision.
    • HCL Color Space - The Hue-Chroma-Luminance (HCL) color space is an alternative to other color spaces like RGB, HSV and so on. In contrast to most of the available color spaces the HCL color gamut is based on how the human eye perceives colors.
    • Icon Finder - Find icon image sets, plus editing and designs for icons.
    • Jet Strap - A premier interface-building tool for Bootstrap 3.
    • Google Fonts - An intuitive and robust directory of open source designer web fonts.
    • Subtle Patterns - A directory of minimalist and elegant patterns for upload and download.
    • Font Awesome - A handy directory for downloading and customising icons to complement your web projects.
    • Bubble.is - Introduces a new way to build a web application with its point-and-click programming tool, entirely without code. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform.
    • GoHugo - The world’s fastest framework for building websites. It is a static site generator, transforming your.md in sites like lamyne.org.
  • Knowledge Management Tools

    • Pocket - Ideal for future reading and consultation, Pocket puts articles, videos (or pretty much anything) into a dedicated space for easy reference. Save directly from your browser or from apps.
    • Ultradox - A combination of workflow and template engine to merge, send and print documents, generate websites or send out responsive emails as part of your process. It allows for personnalized documents generation, which is pretty cool.
    • Smallpdf - Pdf conversions and related applications. To deal with anything pdf.
    • Pocket - Ideal for future reading and consultation, Pocket puts articles, videos (or pretty much anything) into a dedicated space for easy reference. Save directly from your browser or from apps.
  • Data Tools

    • GIGO principle
    • TriFacta Wrangler - Helps data analysts clean and prepare messy, diverse data more quickly and accurately.
    • Blockspring - An ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool for non-coders, with lots of integrations: it allows to connect web apps and start collecting data from them, to be transformed and reinjected anywhere (ie. in a Google spreadsheet).
    • Cloudconvert - Online tool to convert anything to anything, either manually or through its API. Has a connection with Zapier, like most of the tools in this list.
    • Segment.io - A customer data platform. Collect user data with one API and send it to hundreds of tools or a data warehouse. One API, 200+ tools, and no more integrations.
    • oTranscribe - A free web app to take the pain out of transcribing recorded interviews.
    • Awesome Table - Build little web apps from Google Spreadsheets.
    • DataVizCatalogue - A catalogue for DataViz. Find the type of visualization you need.
    • Trint - Advanced auto-transcribing of audio and video. Collaborative, powerful, but pricy.
    • GeoJournalism - Online resources, tools and training to produce multimedia stories or simple maps and data visualization to help creating context for complex environmental issues.
    • Youtube - One can use Youtube's auto-transcribing of audio and video to kickstart the transcription of audio and video files. Free tools.
    • RDDJ - Hand-curated, high quality resources for doing data journalism with R.
    • SearchIQ - A site search solution that optimizes and enhances your website’s search experience and user engagement on your site.
    • Rapid Insight - Connect, prepare, analyze and share, with no coding required. Easy self-service analytics.
    • Dataportals.org - A comprehensive list of open data portals around the world, curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.
    • Enigma Public - The world’s broadest collection of public data with personal bookmarking capabilities, that includes data from international companies, universities, governments, and also a curated data collection.
    • Knomea - The Knoema Data repository provides worldwide coverage across hundreds of topics from more than 2.7B time series and thousands of sources. Retrieve data for your report, research or assignment in seconds.
    • Metadesk.io - An all-in-one search & collaboration hub, based on trace theory.
    • Versionista.com - Monitoring of website changes.
    • Tineye.com - Reverse image search.
    • Web Scraper - A company specializing in data extraction from web pages, with a free Google Chrome Web Scraper Extension, and cloud based Web Scraper.
    • Websitedownloader.io - Download all the source code and assets of any website.
    • Simple Scraper - A suggestion from @humanismusic ; we tested it and it is, indeed, simple to use.
    • TriFacta Wrangler - Helps data analysts clean and prepare messy, diverse data more quickly and accurately.
    • Tineye.com - Reverse image search.
  • Infrastructure & Development Tools

    • Organisation & Communication Tools

      • Freshbooks - Cloud-based accounting solutions for small business owners. It is designed for owners of the types of small client-service businesses that send invoices to clients and get paid for their time and expertise.
      • Sameroom.io - Connects chatrooms (even when they're running on completely different services).
      • Spreadshirts - A German online retail company that enables customers to design and order custom apparel such as T-shirts and sweatshirts. Customers can make, buy, and sell their designs on the Spreadshirt retail marketplace.
      • Coinbase - A digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.
      • Square - A financial services, merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company with several software and hardware payments products, including Square Register and Square Reader, and has expanded into small business services such as Square Capital, a financing program, Square Cash, a person-to-person payments service, and Square Payroll.
      • Trezor - A secure USB cyptocurrency wallet.
      • LegalStart - A French legal management company helping startups draft legal documents and formalities online.
      • Slack - A cloud-based set of proprietary team collaboration tools and services. The name is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge".
      • Discourse - A modern forum software for your community. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more !
      • Chatlio - Chat with your website visitors directly from Slack.
      • Vistaprint - A Dutch global, e-commerce brand that produces physical and digital marketing products for small and micro businesses, offering high-quality printed marketing materials, promotional products and marketing services such as copywriting, design, websites and postcard mailing.
      • Appear.in - An online video collaboration tool that lets you have video conversations effortlessly. Create a room with no required registration.
      • Google Hangouts - Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes instant messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features.
      • Livestream.com - A video live streaming platform that allows customers to broadcast live video content using a camera and a computer through the Internet, and viewers to play the content via the web, iOS, Android, Roku, and the Apple TV.
      • Periscope - A live video streaming app for Android and iOS.
      • Skype - A popular telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.
      • LinkedIn - A business- and employment-oriented social networking service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. As of April 2017, LinkedIn had 500 million members in 200 countries, out of which more than 106 million members are active.
      • Freshdesk - An online cloud-based customer service software providing helpdesk and client support with smart automations included.
      • FrontApp - Front redefines work communication with the first shared inbox for teams. By unifying your email, customer communication channels, and apps in one platform.
      • Meetup - An online social networking service, intended for people to organize and/or join group meetings in real life. Meetups are formed around a common interest, goal, or cause, and they are made up of regular, face-to-face gatherings.
      • Juicer.io - Load more content simply by scrolling to the bottom of the page. Auto-approve all your user generated content, or set up auto-moderation filters. Custom CSS: Style it to fit your brand or site. Advanced Analytics: Find out who uses your social feed, and how they interact with it.
      • Sharypic - An event photo sharing service for gathering people and pictures in one place. Collaborate together in a unique gallery in real time.
      • Imgur - An online image sharing community and image host.
      • Instagram - A mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharing application and service.
      • Slideshare - A Web 2.0–based slide hosting service. Users can upload files privately or publicly in the following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenDocument presentations. Slide decks can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites.
      • Youtube - Allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users, offering a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
  • Tools being explored

    • Organisation & Communication Tools

      • Network Repository - An interactive scientific data repository.
      • Bicedeep - Data science AI as a service.
      • Auto-WEKA - Will help non-expert users to more effectively identify machine learning algorithms and hyperparameter settings appropriate to their applications.
      • Elastic Search Stack - Reliably and securely take data from any source, in any format, in real time.
      • Maltego - Real time data gathering.
      • Aleph - Investigative reporting tool for indexing large amounts of both unstructured and structured data.
      • Gephi - The open graph visualisation platform.
      • Datproject - Dat is the nonprofit-backed technology & community for building apps of the future.
      • Frictionless Data - A directory of apps, integrations, libraries, and platforms. From data to insight with a collection of specifications and software for the publication, transport, and consumption of data, with an emphasis on platform-agnostic interoperability.
      • W3C - Best Practices for publishing linked data from W3C. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizationsled by Web inventor and Director Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
      • Goodtables - A free online service that helps you find out if your tabular data is actually good to use - it can check for structural problems (blank rows and columns) as well as ensure that data fits a specific schema.
      • Sensible Code software - Software to improve business operations using data science techniques and machine learning. Turning messy data into valuable information.
      • Wikidata - A collaboratively edited knowledge base hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is intended to provide a common source of data which can be used by Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, and by anyone else, under a public domain license.
      • IPFS - A protocol and eponymous network designed to create a content-addressable, peer-to-peer method of storing and sharing hypermedia in a distributed file system.
      • Loomio - Source-blue.svg) and potentially ![**C&B +1**](https://img.shields.io/badge/C%26B-%2B1-brightgreen.svg) tools.
      • SciVal Funding
      • Angel List - Startups directory and service site for recruitment, investment and referencea.
      • YouNoodle - A platform behind hundreds of startup competitions and innovation engagement programs around the world, giving us a unique picture of the global startup ecosystem.
      • Kickstarter - An online crowdfunding platform.
      • Only Lyon - A city campaign to make Lyon shine on the international scene.
      • WiSeed - A prominent French crowdfunding platform.
      • 100Open Toolkit - A 30-piece toolkit covering the whole open innovation journey, from setting a strategy for collaboration to implementing mutually beneficial business models.
      • Degreed - A skill certification platform.
      • Alfresco - A digital business platform.
      • OpenKM - A document management system.
      • SurveyMonkey - A survey platform creator and analysis.
      • Wiki.js - An open source, modern and powerful wiki app.
      • TiddlyWiki - A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.
      • Rambox - A free, open source and cross platform messaging and emailing app.
      • OpenBadge Factory - Tools for your organisation to implement a meaningful and sustainable Open Badges system.
      • Badgr - A free and open source achievement recognition and tracking system.
      • ROME (Répertoire Opérationnel des Métiers et des Emplois) - An operational directory of trades and jobs in France.
      • ESCO - The multilingual classification of European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations.
      • La Casemate - A scientific cultural centre based in Grenoble, France.
      • Lastpass - a freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in private accounts. LastPass is standard with a web interface, but also includes plugins for many web browsers and apps for many smartphones.
      • Framatools - Open source web tools.
      • Calendly - Optimised task scheduling.
      • Figma - Allows you to design mock UI and test them, collaboratively
      • Revolut - Modern banking
      • Revolut - Modern banking
      • Maltego - Real time data gathering.
      • La French Tech - A French business initiative to support entrepreneurs working in or for French start-ups in France or abroad.
      • La French Tech - A French business initiative to support entrepreneurs working in or for French start-ups in France or abroad.
      • Research Professional
      • Automated Machine Learning — A Paradigm Shift That Accelerates Data Scientist Productivity @ Airbnb
  • Leftovers

    • Organisation & Communication Tools

      • SemApps - SemApps is an open-source software allowing to develop geographic information system in semantic, intra- and inter- community.
      • Communecter - An innovative societal network at the service of citizens who are agents of change.
      • Discourse - Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!
      • dokie.li - dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
      • Miro - Experience the power of the Miro visual collaboration platform to create, collaborate, and centralize communication across your company on a single online whiteboard.
      • Kirby - Kirby is the content management system, you build your own ideal interface. Combine forms, galleries, articles, spreadsheets and more into an amazing editing experience.
      • Notion - The all-in-one workspace. Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized.
      • Samepage - The all-in-one collaborative platform. We blend communication, project management, and file sharing tools together in a single app, giving you more clarity and less noise so you can get more done.
      • Monday - A project management platform that you can plan, organize and track, in one visual, collaborative space.
      • POWR - Website plugins to grow your business. Forms, popups, countdown timers, sliders, media galleries, ecommerce, social media feeds/icons and much more. No coding necessary.
      • Fizen - Anytime is a Neobank for companies, professionals, associations, and private individuals. Fizen allows you to save time on your management and manage your activity in real time. Designed and used by chartered accountants for VSE executives.
      • Aha! - Aha! is for roadmapping collaboratively, for product and marketing teams — work independently or collaborate better together.
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