I made seven publications this year (April 2021 - March 2022) and eight publications last year (April 2020 - March 2021). Here is the list of the tools (and their description) for accelerating my research.
The list is ordered based on its importance.
1. OS: Ubuntu (the most useful part: stfp inside nautilus)
2. vscode (both python and latex, also remote editing)
3. ssh with byoubu (open multiple sessions of the terminal in one instance)
4. Libreoffice (draw, calc, impress, writer)
5. Inkscape (for editing plots)
6. Simplenote (to make notes)
7. Grammarly (paid, mostly inside vscode)
8. Gnumeric (spreadsheet-like)
9. Insync (paid, to host one drive, google drive, dropbox, etc)
10. pdfcrop (to crop your image, automatically!!)
11. clipit (clipboard manager )
12. Mendeley (reference manager, automatic BIB file creation)
