Speaking of apps we cannot do without, I’ve been using Eagle for the past few months (don’t get it confused with EagleFiler). I discovered this app purely by accident.
Although it’s being touted as an image organizer, it also works beautifully to store and organize all your documents. It’s a perfect place to keep your bills, receipts, notes, etc. About the only drawback is it does not have an iOS version. But they’re supposedly working on it.
I didn’t think anybody would still remember the IBM 650! Was working on it in the early ‘60s!
While currently working on a fairly big project I’ve re-discovered Things. It’s expensive - and you have to pay 3 times for Mac, iPad and iPhone - but there’s a simple elegance about it that just works. I’ve tried using Apple’s Reminders but we just don’t get along.
I wouldn’t say Things would be the first app I’d install on a new Mac, but for the way I’m using it, it’s been extremely helpful.
There are a couple of apps that I typically install on new personal machines. I’ll mention Snagit in particular. It’s marketed as a screen capture/recording app, but I mostly use it to annotate screenshots and other PNG/JPG files. I find that it is a super convenient and fast way to mark up images with arrows, borders, text, and so on. I use it several times a week without fail.
Every time I return to Things I am reminded of just how good it is.
It’s not my day to day, a todo list in Agenda takes care of that, but for a large project I can definitely see myself using it.
Apparently, there is an entire website devoted to people listing the apps they use most for various computing purposes:
Thanks so much for steering me to MELA. what a wonderful tool!
Late to the party, here, @ace but have you forgotten about Curio? Its whiteboard(s) make it an absolute snap to do this kind of arrangement and you can export in PDF, JPG, PNG. Not only that, you can copy individual elements in (even more) export formats.
Curio is now astonishingly sophisticated with extensive Markdown support and heaven knows what else but it remains in my opinion the simplest way to think visually on a *whiteboard" that’s available.
Dave
I’d either forgotten about Curio or never knew about it. It looks tremendously capable, and huge overkill for just combining screenshots. For that, I mostly use CleanShot X these days.