ADM² / Field Notes

Tools that have increased our productivity at ADM²

We do not adopt tools for fun. A tool earns its place here by deleting a step, removing a wait, or killing a back-and-forth that used to cost us a day. These three earned it. We use all of them, most days.

By the ADM² team

01 Mistshare

Live shared notes, no login

Mistshare in one line: Free · Markdown · Self-deleting · Real-time · No login · Works offline · Unlimited seats · 24 languages

Someone sent us a Mistshare link, we clicked it, and we were typing in a shared document a second later. No signup. No account. No "create a password." Just a blank page and another cursor moving next to ours. Within a week it had quietly replaced half a dozen things we used to fight with, because it is so simple that it becomes whatever the moment needs.

Building the perfect prompt, together

The prompt is the work now. When you are getting an AI to write, plan, or build something, the quality of what comes out is decided almost entirely by the quality of what you put in. A good prompt is worth tailoring carefully, and it is worth more than one person's brain. So we build them as a team in a shared note: one person starts the instructions, another sharpens a line, a third adds the example that makes it click, everyone editing the same prompt at once.

Then the part we love. Because the note is plain Markdown, you save it as a .md file and simply tell your AI to go read it and follow it. The thing you wrote together becomes the instruction set, handed straight to the machine. The note is the prompt.

Real time, not review cycles

Most teams lose hours to the same loop: make a draft, send it for review, wait, get comments, change it, send it again. Mistshare kills the loop. Someone types the code they have in mind and you correct it live as they write. You rewrite a headline as a group, watching each other's edits land, until it is right. It is the difference between handing work back and forth and actually working on it together.

And a link your client can just open

The most underrated thing it does is the thing it does not do: it does not ask your client to make an account. You send a link, they open it, they are in. The signup wall, the single biggest source of friction in client work, is gone. It is also Markdown, so whatever you write travels cleanly into a doc, GitHub, or an AI, and notes fade on their own after about ten days of quiet, so your scratch work never piles up.

02 Lightshot

Screenshots, captured and shared in seconds

The default way to take a screenshot is slow: capture, find it in a folder, open something to mark it up, save, attach, send. Lightshot collapses all of that into one motion. You drag to select any part of the screen, and right there on the spot you add the arrow, the box, the bit of text that points at what matters.

Then it gives you two ways out, both instant: copy the marked-up image straight to your clipboard, or upload it and get a short shareable link in a single click. For us that means a client sees the exact thing we are talking about, annotated, in the time it used to take to find the file. For marking up an ad, a mockup, or a bug, nothing we have tried is faster.

03 Loom

Screen recordings you send instead of meetings

Half the meetings on a calendar exist to explain something that did not need a meeting. Loom is the antidote. You hit record, walk through your screen and talk over it, stop, and it hands you a shareable link. The other person watches it whenever they want, at their own pace, and replies in their own time.

It is the moving-picture companion to Lightshot's stills. A screenshot shows a client where the problem is; a Loom shows them how the whole thing works, or walks them through a report, without anyone blocking out half an hour to sit on a call. The hours it has given back to us are real.