What software do I use all the time?
January 7, 2016
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I decided to put together a list of 3rd party software products and services I consider indispensable in my day or day or weekly arsenal.
Here goes…
| Service | Paid | Free | Start Using | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gmail | x | Jan 2005 | Personal mail | |
| Chrome | x | ~End of 2008 | Web browser | |
| Evernote | x | January 2009 | Used to be note taking, now just PDF searching and organization | |
| Last.fm | x | March 2009 | Scrobbling my music listening and nerding out on my listening patterns | |
| Lastpass | x | February 2010 | Password management | |
| Github | x | July 2012 | Storing code and blog | |
| Spotify | x | July 2012 | Listening to music based on my mood and being able to view my listening patterns on last.fm | |
| Google Drive | x | August 2012 | Inexpensive online storage for my documents and automatic sync of certain settings files | |
| iTerm2 | x | ~September 2012 | Terminal emulator | |
| Tweetbot | x | January 2013 | Twitter client for iPhone and Mac | |
| OmniGraffle | x | January 2013 | Diagramming | |
| Dash | x | January 2014 | Offline documentation browser | |
| Slack | x | August 2014 | Team/group/bot chat | |
| Feedly | x | December 2014 | All my RSS feeds go here for every blog I follow (176 last count) | |
| Todoist | x | April 2015 | Todo management | |
| Postman | x | July 2015 | API testing | |
| Atom | x | October 2015 | General text editor | |
| RescueTime | x | December 2015 | Time tracking on my laptop mostly. Need to start using their offline tracker too | |
| PyCharm | x | December 2015 | Python development | |
| Quiver | x | December 2015 | Note taking | |
| Beeminder | x | January 2016 | Goal tracking | |
| Headspace | x | January 2016 | Meditation | |
| Blinkly | x | January 2016 | Reading summarized versions of non-fictional books |
Will keep adding and updating as time goes on.
alan