That hits hard. I miss not only Tweetbot per se but especially the Twitter experience I had a few years ago. Nowadays, it takes only a few minutes scrolling Twitter to get me sad and nostalgic. So much hate and ads…
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I think about Remember the Milk like twice a month.
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For me it was Think C. Fun times. 
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That’s funny. I almost wrote Borland C++ for my favorite Windows option. It might’ve been a birthday gift.
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I can’t think of any favorite software than I’m not still using. What’s past is past. 
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I could have written this post although in my case it’s Emacs and not Obsidian. In addition to markdown, IA Writer is also a nice .txt editor on the ipad.
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I wasn’t even thinking back that far, but I do miss these two, particularly the pre-Windows WordPerfect (like 5.1).
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I forgot all about this. What happened to Tweetbot was a complete shame. I loved that app. It was so much better than the Twitter native client. I wish Twitter had just bought it and made it the default client.
I liked when TweetDeck was a native app, too. Those were the Wild West days of Twitter.
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Pagemaker…that was a great program for laying documents out in a periodical style format.
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One could argue that Tweetbot got reincarnated as Ivory, the Mastodon client. I ran with Tweetbot for a long time, and feel like I still do in a way.
MarsEdit. Since my blog is no longer on WordPress, I can’t use the app. Otherwise, it’s a solid application.
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I miss Eudora, but nothing since has ever come close to WP 5.1.
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Info on running WordPerfect for DOS on modern macOS, Windows, and Linux:
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Lotus 1-2-3, more than word processors, really changed my work from paper to computer.
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Still using Remember The Milk, every single day…
Agenda - This is the most surprising addition to the list: I don’t need most of my notes to be dated and I don’t use a digital calendar for scheduling. No web clipper. Note titles are too large and double line titles get cut off sometimes. Hard to swipe to folder list on mobile. Selecting text on mobile is slow.
Switched to Joplin 3.x, where sync is finally fixed and even though it’s larger in file and memory size, I see no performance hits at all. The first two plugins listed below fill deficiencies in my Agenda use; the third simply replicates inbox Agenda capabilities.
- Journal plugin massively simplifies my daily note creation and use.
- Inline TODO plugin keeps my daily note tasks corralled in one note at the top of this year’s daily notes folder for visibility.
- Quick Links plugin gives me backlinks from daily notes to client notes.
Evernote - too expensive. At least one can import again.
Bear - freeform tags don’t work well with a folder mind.
Eaglefiler & DEVONthink - for my light use, the file system and FileProvider-based iCloud Drive after Sonoma 14.5 are good enough.
Spark 2.0 - doesn’t download all my email. can’t see all headers when troubleshooting someone else’s spam.
iWork suite - SoftMaker Office NX accepts copied accounting reports from Corona better than Numbers.
Safari - Firefox’s Downie extensions work better than Safari’s do. uBlock Origin and Joplin web clipper extensions only exist on Firefox.
I spent several hours yesterday getting WordStar 7 for DOS to work on my MBP. It was a fun exercise, but the amount of hoops you’d have to jump through to get any work out of it would be too much for me to use it in anger.
The download is here Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar 7 Archive if you want to indulge…
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What a fun question. So, I assume we are limiting this to the last 5 years or so.
Two apps immediately spring to mind.
One, I cannot remember the name of but I hope someone in here will know what I’m talking about. There was an iOS app until a couple of years ago where you could make a to-do list with an individual time block allocated to each one, and it would remember and run through the list, with options to add an additional 5 mins, etc… So e.g. you’d make a to-do list that went “10 mins - dusting, 10 mins - sorting laundry, 10 mins - vacuuming”. You could have pre-saved lists to run through a specific taskset regularly. It was brilliant, but then it got abandoned. No-one has made a similar app since. Sloth is very similar, but it’s not quite the same and I mourn the loss of the original app.
Two, the original Scrabble app. It was really good. You could game online or you could game with friends who also had the app. Then during the pandemic Hasbro sold the app and the new owners ruined it. I stopped playing overnight, and judging by the angry rants I’ve seen online, I wasn’t the only one.
I think both my answers were a bit low-brow for this forum 
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I’m replying to myself, the app I was remembering was 30/30 by Binary Hammer. I wish someone would revive it, it was so good and productivity Reddit has had many threads over the years mourning its demise!