Over the course of this year, I've had to configure a number of machines for daily use. Thru sheer habit, I didn't want to buy a new notebook until after Macworld back in January, so I added accounts to both my wife's and my kid's notebook computers until after then. Once Macworld had come and gone, I bought a MacBook, opting to balance weight with performance.
In all these configurations, I've come to appreciate the core set of tools I use on a daily basis:
- OmniFocus - i've moved away from Mail as a to-do list, and have committed to OmniFocus, both on the Mac and the iPhone. I had already started to incorporate GTD principles at the start of 2007, so this has felt like a natural adoption.
- iDisk - I decided to turn on automatic sync'ing, and have been thrilled with the results so far. Now I don't have to worry about where I create documents, I just always save to my iDisk, and know I can get to them everywhere.
- NetNewsWire - I'm pruning my subscription list significantly, and not spending nearly as much time reading.
- MarsEdit - I'm queueing up a bunch of blog entries, so that there's always something to write about, and if I feel blocked on one topic, I can just pick up another topic and take it forward.
- Cocoalicious - am trying hard to not leave tabs open in NetNewsWire and Safari... I either read a page right away, or tag it as a reference for future use.
- Keynote - I'm doing a lot more presentations these days, whether one-on-one in SyncDev interviews, or to audiences at various conferences.
- Xcode - I'm actually really liking this IDE, particularly the auto completion capabilities.
- Versions - version control is now a habit.
- Fireworks - Just the right level of image editing capabilities, suitable for graphics art in applications.
- Interarchy
- OmniGraffle - great tool for diagrams.
- Keynote
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