I love three things.
Actually, I love more than three things, but for epic blog intro’s sake, let’s say three.
- I love getting things done
- I love my MacBook Pro.
- I love this list of apps
These are the apps that boost my productivity every day:
 | Evernote I probably don't need to say much about Evernote. You probably already use it. Every blogger on earth talks about it. It's my bread and butter. My peanut butter and jelly. My...OK, I'm done now. |
 | Ommwriter I love ommwriter for its distraction free elegance. This is truly a brilliantly conceived software. Customize the click sound of your typing, the style of music, and the background of your choice. There's no better app for getting lost in your writing. |
 | Focus Booster Looking for a boost in your productivity? Time yourself. Seriously. I get more done in a single, 25 minute stretch than I do entire days sometimes. Time yourself on a project and don't do anything else but that one task for as long as you set your timer. Focus Booster is brilliant. |
 | Kindle For Mac Have I mentioned how much I love the Kindle? When I'm not reading my actual Kindle, I go with the mac version. It has a great UI and syncs with my other devices. A great way to do some quick, midday reading. |
 | Buffer Buffer is my most recent obsession. I love Twitter but it is also quite a time-suck. With Buffer you can space out your tweets to hit at different times. With the Chrome extension, this makes it easy to tweet great articles I find on the web throughout the day. |
 | Action Method Action Method is my current task management app. I love the look, feel, and focus on action. I like to experiment with new task apps so I'm not sure how long I'll keep this, but for now, it's a winner. |
 | Google Chrome Chrome is the best web browser ever. The web url/search bar is amazing and the extensions you can add via the chrome store are essential. I use Buffer, Evernote, Send to Kindle, Rdio, & Stumble Upon |
 | Reeder As you know, I love Google Reader. This new desktop app creates an even better experience to me. Same Google Reader shortcuts. Send articles to Evernote & Twitter. Brilliant. Only thing I would add is some Buffer integration. |
 | Instapaper If I want to save blog articles for later reading, I save them to Instapaper. All my instapaper articles go straight to my Kindle. That way I can read them later in a distraction free setting. A huge productivity booster because I don't feel pressured to read every blog instantly. |
 | Sparrow Though I've tried, I've never been happy with Apple Mail. Recently I bought Sparrow and I've been loving it. It has a great 'social network' feel to it and it works like a peach. I think I've found my email app for life. |
Question: What are some apps that you use every day? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
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I love Evernote! I use it all the time. I also use dropbox on a daily basis as well.
Buffer sounds really neat to me.
Currently I use timely.is to schedule posting of my blog posts. It calculates when the best time to be is.
I haven’t tried timely.is. I will look into that. Thanks!
Like Michael said, Dropbox, is the only thing I would add to the list. I keep just about everything ministry-related in there so no matter if I have my Macbook, iPad, or phone, I can reference something.
I am back and forth between Timely and Buffer. I can’t decide on either one and why….Maybe I will use both. Does that make me a super smart twitterer or just annoying in your timeline?
I don’t think that’s annoying. Give it a try! I also use Dropbox. I should have included that, but I haven’t recently been using it as much as Evernote.
I use Feebly on my Android, it’s also available for iOS and as a Chrome extension. It syncs with Google reader and puts all my rss feeds into a beautiful UI. On my mobile it gives you gesture control to read save and delete articles. Works really well. It also has a lot of preloaded blogs from tech to design to politics
Forgot to proof read before I hit publish. The app is “feedly” and it also comes with a preloaded list of blogs it calls “essentials.” these blogs are on topics from tech to design to photography to news. I found a really great design blog “Design Milk” that has been very inspirational for me in stage design and creative elements for my services.
I LOVE feedly, but it doesn’t play well with Chrome lately. What browser are you feedly-ing on?
I have it on Chrome but rarely use it there. I am “feedly-ing” mostly on android at this point.
I’ve got it on my iphone too. But, I don’t like tiny screens. sheesh I think I’m getting old, Tyler!
I think I need to try to this feedly thing. I don’t have an opinion at this point.
Never heard of Buffer. I love hootsuite bc I can do the same for Twitter and FB. double score.
I love Ommwriter, btw. ahh love it! Especially when paired with FocusBooster!
Great list, David!
I use Hootsuite, too, but Buffer allows me to preselect my tweet times. Then all it involves is a simple one click “add to buffer” and I’m good to go. It’s more mindless, which I like
I wanted to try “things” but did not want to pay $50, but i just starter using iProcrastinate. and it seems pretty awesome so far. You can set it up like “things”
I downloaded iProcrastinate from the app store but haven’t really messed with it. What do you mean you can set it up like “Things”? I’ve always like the UI of “Things”.