What Apps Actually Make You Want to Use Them?

Software
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Logos Bible Software. iA Writer. Ulysses. Day One. Overcast.

Currently trying to find an RSS reader that I can put in the first group. Reeder for a long time but been tinkering with lire and NetNewsWire.

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Noteplan - so calming

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Same here! I don’t use Craft that much, but when my subscription expired yesterday, I immediately resubscribed. Somehow the editor and the writing environment are comfy and encourage me to write more.

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Things
GoodLinks
Obsidian
Cursor :smile:

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Ditto for Craft. It is pleasant and relaxing to use. I’ve often put together travel pages, or book summaries for reading groups, and shared them with friends and family. I can’t think of any other app that let me do that so effortlessly and beautifully.

Other than that, the apps I use most are:

  • CleanShot
  • DEVONthink
  • Curio
  • Reminders
  • Fantastical
  • MarginNote 4
  • Claude (desktop)

Katie

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For me, the two apps that make me want to use them are OmniFocus and Superhuman.

I always end up returning to Omnifocus, mainly because it was the app I used in the busiest part of my career and I built a solid workflow around it. No matter what i try, I end up coming back.

Superhuman is a tool I cannot live without. I use Exchange at work and other apps like Mail are straight out unreliable for me, the last time I tried I couldn’t even add my work account to Mail (Outlook is the exception, which I find deplorable - especially it’s useless AI/Copilot features, which flat out don’t work!)

More importantly I enjoy triaging my email with Superhuman. No other app makes a process as frustrating as email a pleasure. Whenever I try the alternatives, I realize that I need 3-4 apps just to replace Superhuman (Sanebox, Mail, TextExpander, Fantastical), and whenever I try and leave I realize that I want an integrated experience, not using multiple separate interfaces (which are worse than the integrated experience in my experience).

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I love using OmniFocus.

For some it looks old school, but it works really well for me.

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Gruvbox theme in my terminal apps. Ghostty at the mo.

nvim, yazi, taskwarrior, neomutt and Notmuch. For some unknown reason I love it when ghostty fires up, gruvbox theme and I’m ready to go distraction free.

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OmniFocus & Fantastical for me. They both just work and I couldn’t operate without them at this point!

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So did I, but it’s way overkill for me. I bought two versions of it before I smacked myself in the forehead and just got used to the substantially less pretty Reminders.

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EagleFiler essentially does all I want out of Finder.

DEVONThink is the same times twenty.

I had to fundamentally change how I think about text files to understand Notenik and it’s paid off.

I use GoodLinks a lot even though I rarely read anything in it. But when I want to export something it does so well. Your typographic adjustments persist when you export an article as a PDF.

AnyBox is a similar case. I don’t always need to recall a link to a page I barely remember but when I do I find it there. And the API that it exposes plays great with SingleFile.

Hookmark is an app that makes you want to use it. The “Related” links section in the contextual window is surprisingly useful and the entire app cooperates with all of the others.

NoteTaker 4 and Notebooks are the longest tenured but most sporadically used programs I run but they compliment the rest well when they’re ran.

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Does anyone have a favorite non-Numbers spreadsheet app that matches this subject of making you want to use it?

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Airtable is very pretty. Don’t have too many uses for it and would love to have something that would fit it in my workflow

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