Smart Trim

Smart Trim implements a new field formatter for textfields (text, text_long, and text_with_summary, if you want to get technical) that improves upon the "Summary or Trimmed" formatter built into Drupal 7

Simplify

From the project page: "Simplify allows particular fields to be hidden from the user interface. This helps to de-clutter forms and present a more user-friendly experience to content editors..."

Message

The message stack of module provides the a great way to create a highly customized messaging and notification system

env

"This project implements code to make Drupal's configuration (settings.php) environment-dependent, so that you can have different sets of configurations in dev, staging and production. "