Our Favorite Remote Work Tools This Year

By Renee Gutierrez · March 9, 2026

No affiliate links, no sponsorships. These are the tools our 9-person remote team actually uses every day. Project management: Linear. We switched from Notion projects last year and haven't looked back. It's opinionated but fast. Communication: Slack for quick stuff, Loom for async video, email for external. We tried switching to Discord for a month and everyone hated it. Design: Figma, obviously. We use Figma variables for our token system. FigJam for brainstorming. Docs: Notion for internal docs and knowledge base. Google Docs for anything we share externally (proposals, reports). Video calls: Google Meet. It's fine. Nobody loves it but nobody hates it enough to switch. Code: GitHub + Vercel for deployment. VS Code for most of the team, one holdout on Cursor. Time tracking: We don't. We're results-oriented. As long as work gets done, we don't care when you do it. Password management: 1Password Teams. Non-negotiable for a remote team. The one tool we couldn't live without: Loom. Async video changed how we work more than any other tool.