This list is a WIP, but here are some of my faves. Note that I didn’t put anything obvious on here, like Chrome, Sketch, or Postmaster.
Projects & tasks
- OmniFocus 4 – obsessed
- Notion – better than the browser
Marketing/Ecommerce
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider
- Ghost browser (+ a proxy) – for true international previews
Automation
- Alfred – the holy grail. how did I live before him?
- Keyjerk Reactions – assign keyboard shortcuts to Zoom reactions
Tracking
- Timing App – tracks everything you do and can auto-assign activity to client projects based on conditional rules (e.g., file path, website name)
- Whatpulse – see how many times you’ve clicked your mouse and more!
Text
- Obsidian – I’m a convert
- Tot – better than stickies for text I need for like 2 minutes
Code editing
- Sublime text – make fun of me for living in 2014 all you want, I like it because it’s lightweight.
- Diffchecker – it’s elementary but works on text and code and there’s zero learning curve
Files & folders
- Rename-Files – Use regex to rename files!!
- PathSnagger 2 – Get clickable file:// links — I paste these into Omnifocus tasks
- The Unarchiver – I use this to open .rar on mac
Graphics, media & creative
- ImageOptim – crush jpgs with ease
- tinypngapp – crush pngs with ease (ImageOptim can do both, obviously, but I like this one better for pngs)
- Color Picker – better than the system one
- Image Crop – batch crop loads of images without having to fire up PSD and Adobe Bridge
- macSVG – make tiny edits to pngs without having to fire up Sketch, Illustrator, etc.
Screen capture
- OBS – streamers use this and it has loads of features but I like it for screen recordings with sound
- Cleanshot – system default replacement for screenshots with a lot more features
- LICECap – sketchy UI but it takes the lightest weight screen recording gifs you’ve ever seen
Screen manipulation
- Bigclock – put a big clock on your screen, over top of any window
- Plash – use a website as your desktop background
- Shroud – hide the 1 million windows you have open
System
- Omni Disk Sweeper – no-nonsense hard drive cleanup including application library files you don’t need. don’t use if you don’t understand your computer.
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