31 Days, 31 Products: Launch Post
Kicking off 31 Days, 31 Products, a month of short write-ups on software I actually use, inspired by Jaimee Newberry.
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Kicking off 31 Days, 31 Products, a month of short write-ups on software I actually use, inspired by Jaimee Newberry.
Day 01 of 31 Days, 31 Products. MindNode, the mind mapping tool I use to branch out from an idea and see where it goes.
Day 02 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Fin, an iOS app that turns your device into a large countdown timer for talks and performances.
Day 03 of 31 Days, 31 Products. 1Password, for generating and retrieving a unique password for every site you use.
Day 04 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Acorn, a Mac image editor with a truly native feel and some of the best docs around.
Day 05 of 31 Days, 31 Products. ScreenFlow, my tool of choice for recording and editing screencasts.
Day 06 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Duet, which turns an iPad into a wired second monitor with none of the AirPlay lag.
Day 07 of 31 Days, 31 Products. TweetBot and Twitterrific, the two clients that have made Twitter usable for me since 2007.
Day 08 of 31 Days, 31 Products. SimPholders, a menu bar app that gets you into recent Xcode simulator builds in a click.
Day 09 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Today, my weather app of choice, mostly for its visual seven day highs and lows.
Day 10 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Byword, my Markdown editor of choice, plus a pitch for writing in Markdown at all.
Day 11 of 31 Days, 31 Products. TextExpander, which turns a few typed characters into whatever boilerplate you type most.
Day 12 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Instapaper, for saving articles to read later in a clean, ad-free view.
Day 13 of 31 Days, 31 Products. SourceTree, a Mac front end for Git that makes history and staging much easier to see.
Day 14 of 31 Days, 31 Products. OmniFocus, the task manager I keep coming back to for Getting Things Done.
Day 15 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Charles Proxy, for watching the HTTP traffic your web or mobile app is actually sending.
Day 16 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Hearthstone, the card game that became my way to destress between long coding sessions.
Day 17 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Elgato Game Capture HD, a passthrough box for recording whatever is on your console or screen.
Day 18 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Postbox, the mail client sitting on top of my heavily filtered Gmail setup.
Day 19 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Trello, an online Kanban board I have leaned on for years to see the flow of work.
Day 20 of 31 Days, 31 Products. OmniGraffle, my go-to for flow charts, data models, and website wireframes.
Day 21 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Vimeo, where I host video because paying for it buys real control over presentation.
Day 22 of 31 Days, 31 Products. BBEdit, the editor I reach for on huge files, giant find-and-replaces, and config work.
Day 23 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Status Board, Panic's app for turning an old iPad into a wall of actionable data.
Day 24 of 31 Days, 31 Products. SuperDuper, the backup tool that kept me calm when my 2TB media drive would not mount.
Day 25 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Sketch, the Mac vector tool that has become a standard for designing user interfaces.
Day 26 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Dash, a clean API documentation browser with 150 docsets and good editor integration.
Day 27 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Flixster, the app I keep on my phone for movie trailers, showtimes, and the release calendar.
Day 28 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Reeder, the RSS app that got out of the way when my reading habit came back with the iPad Pro.
Day 29 of 31 Days, 31 Products. iOctocat, the iPhone and iPad app I use to track GitHub pull requests while on the road.
Day 30 of 31 Days, 31 Products. OmniDiskSweeper, the free OmniGroup tool for finding what is actually eating your hard drive.
Day 31 of 31 Days, 31 Products. Skitch, the screenshot and annotation tool I lean on when I am running an app audit.