SetApp - Which apps do you use?

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Many, us pay for SetApp yet don’t get all the value because we don’t know the full extent of all the shiny toys.

Apps I use

Some of these I paid for before SetApp - honestly my subscription is on the edge of good value

  • CleanShotX - Screenshots, annotations etc
  • ForkLift - Finder replacement for me
  • Sessions - as a tool to help me remember to focus in a time block
  • HoudahSpot - Spotlight on steroids - this has been a real gem for me
  • BetterTouchTool - automation app - handles my stream deck and soon will replace Bartender for me
  • Typing Mind - my current ChatGPT tool of choice
  • BusyCal - recently replaced Fantastical for me
  • MindNode - I want to be a Mindmap maker and it rarely happens
  • Timing - time tracking ostensibly the reason I paid for SetApp - irony I hardly use the app
  • PopClip - In place Text transformations - awesome when I remember to use it
  • ForecastBar - I just installed it - seems like a good weather app. With luck it has better forecasts than Apple Weather (for Canada)

Installed and Don’t use

  • Paste - Installed and never seem to use - KeyBoard Maestro’s tools are good enough
  • Permute - haven’t needed the functionality
    I just forget these exist
  • RocketTypist
  • Soulver
  • Prizmo
  • Tripsy

Tried and Failed

  • NotePlan - seems very well done, I need much deeper OS level integration
  • Spark Mail - just not my style of email
  • VPN - I use IVPN and need a family subscription not just a me thing

This was last asked 4 yrs ago, so it feels relevant again
What the hidden gems have I missed?

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I’m curious what this statement even means. Perhaps an example of a note taking app with “deeper OS level integration” would help me understand.

(Full disclosure. I’ve been a NotePlan subscriber for more than two years.)

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Here are the ones I have installed:

Apps I Use Regularly

Bartender
BoltAl
CleanShot X
Dropzone
Due
Hookmark
iStat Menus
OpenIn
Paletro
Renamer
SideNotes
Soulver
TextSniper
TextSoap
Timing
Yoink

Apps I Use Infrequently

Aeon Timeline
AirBuddy
Diagrams
Downie
Elephas
Expressions
HoudahSpot
iThoughtsX
MindNode
One Switch
PDF Squeezer
Permute

Apps I don’t use

Bike

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Sorry, I wasn’t clear. Noteplan seems like an excellent Journalling app. I was trying to use it for task management and day planning. It fell down for me there.

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This one could easily fall into your “I forget it exists” category, but I use Numi a lot. It’s a bit like Soulver but I find it more ergonomic.

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I use:

CleanShotX
Soulver
CleanMyMac X
Due

Learning to use
BetterTouchTool
Mindnode
Aeon Timeline

Will probably keep using BetterTouchTool and MindNode, but finding Aeon too frustrating,

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NotePlan is not intended to rival OmniFocus or Things, for example, if that is what you need. But my needs don’t require that level of task management. I keep a fairly detailed Daily Note and, with NotePlan’s Calendar and Reminders integration, stay on top of all the things I want to get done. I understand that a busy entrepreneur might need additional tools over what NotePlan can provide.

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I use NotePlan for one thing: weekly staff meeting notes. I add things throughout the week and email it out a few hours before the meeting, then augment it with other people’s contributions during the meeting. We don’t have formal meeting minutes (we’re a 3 person group) but it’s useful to have a permanent record of what’s important to my job, and putting it in Noteplan pre-files it in a useful order.

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That’s pretty much how I use it, too. That’s how I’ve used Agenda in the past as well, before I got Setapp.

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I use NotePlan to plan my day after reviewing my next steps for different projects on OmniFocus.

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Apps I use: Nitro PDF Pro (it’s 14.99 a month from the developer), Craft (10 dollars a month if billed monthly although you get a lower tier with SetApp), Awesome Habits, Hookmark, Permute, MindNode, Be Focused, BTT.

No longer use: NotePlan (I like the app, but I really like having tabs for multiple notes), Bartender, Side notes (fun idea, but one more inbox for things to get lost in), Good Task.

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Yeah, tabs would be really nice. That’s an option already in Obsidian, I believe.

Cc: @metzgereduard :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yes, I’ve been using tabs in Obsidian ever since they were added as a feature.

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You might want to revisit noteplan - there have been many improvements recently. You might also look at the projects and task management extensions.

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I unsubscribed years ago and bought licenses for all the apps I used - it came to less than $100. They include:

Downie
Permute
CleanMyMac
BetterTouchTool
Bartender (not using anymore)
Popclip
Jump Desktop (not using anymore)

I found it a great way to discover apps, but not worth paying each year for.

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I prefer Path Finder to ForkLift.

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What do you make of the mess over lack of support for Path Finder from CocoaTech as reported in their Discord forum?

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I’m test driving NotePlan as a segregated workspace for purely administrative matters. I’ve been using Obsidian’s tasks + calendar plugin to do this, and it’s worked just fine for my needs. However, I’ve found that once I’m in Obsidian I tend to wander away from the admin and get sucked down some more interesting research rabbit hole. (Squirrel!)

I’m experimenting with two daily notes: one in NotePlan for the day-to-day things we all need to do to hold our quotidian lives together, and one in Obsidian for research, thinking, and reflection.

I really like NotePlan’s integration with my calendars, but I’m on the fence about whether I want to take advantage of its integration with Reminders and put my tasks there instead of directly in NotePlan.

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I tried it a few weeks ago. It’s a very good app, it just doesn’t have enough OS level notifications etc.

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That is what drove me to Forklift. Pathfinder stopped evolving.