If you’re keyboard orientated, like I am, it’s a real boon. I use Alfred literally every time I’m on the Mac, to search, to launch programs and to skip to the next track on iTunes. mov files out of my Olympus Pen and turns them into usable. I don’t do much with video, so I’m happy with iMovie and a little video converter called Video Monkey which quickly takes the. I used to use Picasa for that, and miss a tool that can scroll effortlessly through thumbnails on the computer maybe I should look at Adobe Bridge again? Luminar I’ve tried, and beein unimpressed by Pixemalator and Snapseed on the Mac (though they both seem nicer on IOS) Luminar are saying an image organising tool is coming in 2018. If I drop Photoshop it might be for this. It’s $99AUD and has some impressive filters and effects and is getting better and better, updating fast. I’ve also had a good look at a photo editor called Luminar, and particularly the new 2018 version. I was very sceptical about the new more online-orientated Lightroom CC product, but it syncs beautifully and is getting more and more tools. While I wasn’t happy to subscribe to a text editor (see my Goodbye Ulysses post) I do subscribe to the Adobe Creative Suite notably the Photoshop, Lightroom bundle. It’s like the bottom drawer of my desk I just stick stuff in there when I don’t know what else to do with them.įor real ‘reading’ I use the standard Kindle App. I keep thinking it’s something I could do without, but it isn’t. I’ve got over 6k notes there now: snippets, recipes, book reviews, modem manuals. It has an off-line mode too for those plane trips.Įvernote is also a tool I’ve used for a long time. I also like Pocket as a place to store articles I want to get to later on it’s pretty amazing how beautiful the articles look, and how quickly they format, in this tool. Scrivener Reading and Researchįeedly is my go-to RSS Reader, and one of the apps I open on my iPad every morning (just after the email, and right before Tweetbot) It got a pretty big upgrade this year and looks better than ever it’s just that, writing poetry a lot, I’m just as happy working in iA Writer most of the time. I do like it, especially for longer-form writing, and especially for output to ePub or a range of other formats. I sometimes feel that I should like Scrivener more than I actually do. Of the MS world, OneNote stands out as an organising and note-taking tool for me, and with OneNote Classroom Notebooks, it’s a pretty potent teaching tool as well with increasing power that’s been in the Windows version, coming to the Mac as well. My work in a school is dominated by Microsoft: the Office suite, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint. And, yeah, I wrote this on iA Writer and just ‘shared’ into WordPress. I’ve kept these:įor the last couple of years I’ve been using a text editor called Ulysses but then it went to a ridiculous subscription model and I moved to iA Writer (you can read about that move here) I won’t repeat my earlier blog post on why iA Writer works for me, but you can read that post yourself here Enough to say, that iA Writer does the distraction free thing really well, for a fair price. I’ve mostly used Vorhee’s categories for my app list, except I deleted his podcast and communications categories. Most of the time now I can rely on the thing to be backed up, for the version I open on the iPad really to be the version I was working on last night on the Mac. So, I’m always looking for apps that work as seamlessly as possible between the Mac and the IOS version, using some sort of cloud application in the background and all of that is getting better. iCloud syncing and security is a bit of a disaster, but yes, I’m in. This year I’ve dug myself deeper and deeper into the Apple universe, a Mac and a Mac Mini and even using a MacBook Pro for work (not the sturdy Windows 10 workhorse) coupled with an iPad, iPhone and now even an iWatch. The structure of this list based on John Vorhees work for Mac Stories Acknowledgements to the list-makers, whose work I enjoy so much.
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