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Note that I have 2 main requirement : 1. Open source. 2. GPG integration

Mutt on laptop, k9-mail on android.

mutt ++ : just do what you ask him to do. lighter than any other solution I've tried. you don't need your mouse to use it.

mutt -- : Not always packaged with a conf. a bit confusing at first

k9-mail ++: GPG integration (using another app). incredible tunning level. well integrated with android

K9-mail --: few UX issues

It really depend on what you include in your mandays.

Here mandays includes exchange with clients. Also 1 mandays doesn't mean 8 hours of work. because in one day you can't work for 8 hours on the same project.

For the number of mandays, every company have it's own recipe. here is the "wet finger" for the beginning, then rounded to the next Fibonacci number, then multiply by the estimate scale of the project. for a navigation bar for example, with a good code base, it will be 0.5 for code, 0.5 for testing, 0.5 for clients exchange. so 1.5, next Fibonacci number is 2. size of the project is small aka 1.5 so result in 3 days.

Also notes that imho : going lower than 0.5 is too much details, we fail at estimation therefore better be safe, giving details will make your pricing more legit, best advice I can give is to pick little ideas from everyone to make your own recipe, try and experiment.

About efficiency, Pomodoro is nice but not really natural for me as you don't follow your own rhythm. I rather turn off every auto-update or notifications. I check them when I'm available and that my choice, not my notification's choice.

Make your own way, try and fail, that's healthy :)

Skype for business. Because I need a VM to have it running on linux. The quality is even worst than the skype for individuals. The web client is useless (no video, no audio. based on User-Agent) Their is no fallback on phone. The android client won't connect you if you didn't give your phone number. By default you can't see your full company directory in your contact

You can apply most of this to office365. Excluding that the web clients are not that bad (if you forget about live edit, and phone client) Outlook too. filtering your mail without telling you. Creating folder without your agreement

I'm running this for years.

using 127.0.0.1, I have a httpd responding to every request by a 200. this avoid some anti-ad-block check. (such as "watch this ad before your video")

you can also configure your server to reply with a cat gif. but who would like to see a such Internet?