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Top 23 Python Productivity Projects
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khoj
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
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InfluxDB
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Cloud Deployment: Dash apps can be deployed to Dash Enterprise or Heroku.
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activitywatch
The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.
Project mention: EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-11Ah okay. I think this would probably be pretty tricky, security-wise, no? One of my first thoughts that might help would be writing a simple tool that parses history from your browsers to categorize it. Other than that, there are things like https://activitywatch.net/ (which seems to have a desktop and Android version)
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shell_gpt
A command-line productivity tool powered by AI large language models like GPT-4, will help you accomplish your tasks faster and more efficiently.
Project mention: Supercharge Your Terminal: ShellGPT + ChromaDB + LangChain for Context-Aware Automation | dev.to | 2025-09-01🗃 To explore ShellGPT in depth, including installation instructions, usage examples, and advanced configuration options, head over to the official ShellGPT GitHub repository.
- Project mention: Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-16
Stay tuned! We have some cool new features coming soon to support agentic workloads (teaser: https://github.com/Netflix/metaflow/pull/2473)
If you are curious, join the Metaflow Slack at http://slack.outerbounds.co and start a thread on #ask-metaflow
- Project mention: Why every dev needs a coding journal no, your memory isn’t enough | dev.to | 2025-05-17
Resource: Obsidian, jrnl CLI, Markdown Journal Templates on GitHub
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Stream
Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
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Windrecorder
Windrecorder is a memory search app by records everything on your screen in small size, to let you rewind what you have seen, query through OCR text or image description, and get activity statistics, like Microsoft's Windows Recall or Rewind. (by yuka-friends)
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archivy
Archivy is a self-hostable knowledge repository that allows you to learn and retain information in your own personal and extensible wiki.
- Project mention: CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-14
Been a while since I've used it, but I remember using a tool for this, gita [1], you could also just pass through commands to each repo.
[1]: https://github.com/nosarthur/gita/
- Project mention: Ask HN: Favorite LLM CLI tools for your terminal workflow? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10
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ClipCascade
ClipCascade is a lightweight utility that automatically syncs the clipboard across devices, no key press required.
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auto-news
A personal news aggregator to pull information from multi-sources + LLM (ChatGPT/Gemini/Ollama via LangChain) to help us reading efficiently with less noises, the sources including: Tweets, RSS, YouTube, Web Articles, Reddit, and personal Journal notes.
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atom
Atom Agent, automate your workflows by talking to an AI — and let it remember, search, and handle tasks like a real assistant (by rush86999)
Project mention: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-14https://github.com/rush86999/atom
Marketing line: Atom is your conversational AI agent that automates complex workflows through natural language chat. Now with Computer Use Agent capabilities, Atom can see and interact with your desktop applications, automate repetitive tasks, and create visual workflows that bridge web services with local desktop software.
work in progress
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claude-code-plugins-plus-skills
Hundreds of Claude Code plugins with embedded AI skills. Learn via interactive Jupyter tutorials.
Jeremy Longshore's Claude Code Plugins is a comprehensive marketplace and educational hub that's particularly impressive for its breadth. With 20+ plugin packs covering everything from DevOps automation to AI/ML engineering, crypto trading tools, and even creator studio workflows, it's one of the most diverse collections available. What sets it apart is the educational focus - it's not just about installing plugins, but understanding how they work. The marketplace includes detailed learning paths, templates for building your own plugins, and comprehensive documentation. It's like a complete ecosystem for both plugin users and creators.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Supercharge Your Terminal: ShellGPT + ChromaDB + LangChain for Context-Aware Automation
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Metaflow: Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Productivity projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | khoj | 31,962 |
| 2 | dash | 24,351 |
| 3 | activitywatch | 16,164 |
| 4 | shell_gpt | 11,596 |
| 5 | metaflow | 9,675 |
| 6 | jrnl | 7,075 |
| 7 | awesome-devops | 3,769 |
| 8 | Windrecorder | 3,721 |
| 9 | archivy | 3,244 |
| 10 | gita | 1,810 |
| 11 | gorilla-cli | 1,351 |
| 12 | ClipCascade | 1,292 |
| 13 | terraform-tui | 1,200 |
| 14 | kindle2notion | 955 |
| 15 | obsidian-template | 926 |
| 16 | auto-news | 801 |
| 17 | notion-toolbox | 699 |
| 18 | atom | 662 |
| 19 | claude-code-plugins-plus-skills | 751 |
| 20 | pyprland | 632 |
| 21 | Blender-Launcher-V2 | 616 |
| 22 | gtg | 594 |
| 23 | pydoro | 580 |
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