Label Trash

A nice way to add placeholders to input fields. "This module auto-converts form input fields with space-hogging labels into compact mobile-friendly input fields, with placeholders that animate into much smaller labels the moment text is keyed in. "

Maxlength

"Maxlength allows you to set maximum length of any field on any form making use of the form API. This includes fields created using the UI. (Example: any text field on a node)

Node changes

Used on http://drupal.org, "This module stores the changes of a node into a field attached to comments allowing to display a kind-of activity stream on the node much like on drupal.org issues just with a lot less custom code."

Extended File Field

The gist: "This module extends the functionality of the core 'file' field, adding new capabilities to the file upload widget, and providing a new extendible field formatter for displaying lists of files."

Video Filter

Lets you use tokens to embed video and have the ability to add a button to the WYSIWYG for easily adding a video (for those to0 lazy to type).

Unique field

"This module performs additional validation when a node is created or updated by a user to require that a node's title, author, language, and CCK fields are unique within a given context." There are many different contexts including content type. So, for example, you could make sure that nodes of a certain content type have unique titles.

Insert

Insert is the easy, secure way to let editors add images and links to files using WYSIWYG editors.