Hi guys,
I would like to ask you what your top Mac Apps are? Since my work and “life” is based on the Mac I thought back and found out that some Apps helped me a lot and also changed my life. In the following I want to name some Mac Apps, which have been crucial to me and how they changed my life. How about you?
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Better touch tool - Gives me the option to open links in tabs via trackpad as middle click, and genereally changed my trackpad experience. Since I was coming from windows I missed the middle click and this app gave me this option.
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omnifocus. Never used todo-Apps before. The whole App introduced me to this “productivity” world and all these topics. Without Omnifpcus I would never had heard about all those prouducitvity principles and blogs etc. (gtd, blogs, macsparky etc.) Omnifocus really changed my mac-experience and life in a positive manner.
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Evernote. Was the first “productive-creative” app is used. changed my life in a sense, that I realised I could capture my thougts and interesting thing sin the ingernet. This App helped me to catch random thougts, “oneday-maybe stuff”, and generally was a bucket for all in order to be organized later.
3.5.) evernote webclipper and evernote menuentry: using it many times to write down my inspiration FAST into the menu bar. using the menu-note bar also as a holder for texts to insert somewhere. just need it.
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Scapple - the ability for unlimited space for my entries gives me unlimited creativitity and freedom.
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Busycal - Great calendar app with a lot of options (especially calendar sets are impotant to me which is not included in the native app.
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scrievner - gives me the option to unleash my power as a writer and I feel like a high-ranked scientist with 5 phds while using this app.
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Microsoft word and and microsoft excel (helped me to crate spreadsheets for different purposes and also helped me to create “inofrmation noteboooks” to sum up information which was relevant to me (fitness, legal things, etc.)
7.5) In addition to this Omnioutliner: it is great for structuring.
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Apple-Mail: This is one App, where I dont have any improvement suggestions since many years. still i will so cozy using this app.
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apple dictionaries and addons for different languages: using it daily many many times in order to use better languga and to broaden my language skills or to translate. its fast and simple (I also downloaded my third party dictionaries)
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recently: apple notes
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Carbon Copy cloner (CCC): So happy that I came acrross it ! feeling safe always when it runs. using an ssd drive-clone when I need to give my main mac away for rapirs at the apple-store. a cloned actual ssd gives so much happiness.
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time machine: Using it for the history of tasks. I hope apple would develop time machine more and giove the option to “export/clone” the file history to other eternal hard-drives as well.
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dropbox. using it to synch up things. In combination with readdle from documents on my ios I can have all the dropbox files offline on my iphone.
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pdf expert readdle: better highlighting and smotth pdf experience
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menubar apps: istats (feeling like an engineer at nasa monitoring my macs specs); menubarclock (can see different time zoes in the menubar); night owl; dark-mode for safari; bartender; tripmode (helps me save mobile data while hotspotting)
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safari: Safari Favicons in tabs and bookmarks (created ifferent folders for different reserch projects)
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TypeItForme (snippet save me tons of time - snippest have been a game-changer for me as well rearding emails)
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witch (better task switcher for mac)
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Finder-Smartsearch (search criteria) in the sidebar and Houdahspot
I think I forgot a lot of apps and will add more a they come to my mind. Also I will write down how the other apps changed my life as well.