I’ve put together a list of apps that I tend to use. The ecology of apple apps is so rich at this point. In any case, here they are:

Password Management

1Password

• • Excellent password manager

Menu Bar

Alfred 3

• • Application launcher and more

Amphetamine

• • Keeps my mac awake

Display Menu

• • Quickly adjusts the display size

Little Snitch

• • Limits the traffic apps seem to think they have the privilege of using

Sound, Music, and Broadcasting

Audio Hijack

• • Useful for broadcasting music from Cubase

AudioTunes (no longer made)

• • really useful for making quick changes of audio format

Boom 3d

• • magically makes music sound better

Capo

• • Useful for reverse engineering music

Cubase 10

• • my standby Digital Audio Workstation

Gameshow

• • Useful for broadcasting live performances
  • about to be discontinued and taken over by Wirecast.

Grand 3

• • A solid piano VST

iTunes

• • Good stuff

Loopback

• • Very useful for routing music from one app to another

ScreenFlow

• • Standby screencasting. This with Keynote were the main apps for Being Productive

Soundsource

• • Simple menu bar app to direct sounds to different places

Syntorial

• • Super cool app for learning the useful workings of a synthesizer

VLC

• • Powerful, free media player

VOX

• • Another very useful media player

Wavelab 9

• • Sound wave editor. Great for anatomically dissecting sound

File Management

A Better Finder Rename

• • Quickly rename a bunch of stuff

Big Mean Folder Machine

• • Quickly separate or merge files in folders

Carbon Copy Cloner

• • I have an external hard drive regularly copied to another drive as backup

CrashPlan

• • Has been my a solid online backup service for years.

DEVONthink Pro Office

• • Useful for siloing different parts of my work and life. Deserves more than a couple of sentences of explanations.

Dropbox

• • A reliable cloud service for files

Dropzone

• • I’ll use this to send files from one computer to another via a Dropbox folder and a Hazel script

Finder

• • Main file navigation

Forklift

• • FTP client of choice

FreeSpace

• • Tells me how much space I have left on my hard drive

Gemini 2

• • Great for finding duplicate files and removing them

HoudahSpot

• • Powerful search

Hazel

• • An excellent file manager. Set some rules and Hazel keeps my files tidy. See my post on using Hazel to sort.

OmniPresence

• • Keeps my OmniOutliner files synced

Path Finder

• • Another approach to Finder files. I like its preview set up.

Space Gremlin Pro

• • Excellent visualizer for space used in my disk drives

Time Machine

• • Backup!

VisualDiffer

• • Another one of those apps that I don’t use often, but when I need it, it is excellent for what it does.

Productivity

Bartender 3

• • Hides or shows my menu bar items

BusyCal

• • My favorite calendar app – I particularly love the 2-week view

Due

• • My favorite timer. I love the nagging feature.

Flashcard Hero

• • When I need flashcards.

Freedom

• • I don’t really use it anymore, but it was useful to block websites

Hook

• • A really neat bi-directional linking system and more (Hook & OmniFocus)

Howler Pro

• • a fun alert

Keyboard Maestro

• • an excellent tool to manage key commands and more (Posts integrating Keyboard Maestro with OmniFocus)

Moom

• • window size and placement management

OmniFocus

• • my task manager of choice

OmniGraffle

• • great for designing concepts and spaces

OmniOutliner

• • an outliner that works well as a project house

Paste

• • copy and paste management

TextExpander

• • a deluxe text management app – type a few letters and make many more (posts integrating TextExpander with OmniFocus)

Workspaces

• • an app that can link to a number of files and documents

Figures, Billing

Banktivity

• • my financial tracking program of choice

Calca

• • a neat text-based program for quick doing calculations

Moon Invoice

• • for simple invoicing

Numbers

• • a solid spreadsheet tool

Interfaces

Firefox

• • internet browser

Google Chrome

• • internet browser

Epic Games

• • video games!

Firestorm

• • Second Life client

GOG Galaxy

• • video games!

Kindle

Mailplane

• • great for managing multiple Gmail accounts

Steam

• • video games!

TweetDeck

Origin

• • video games!

Plex Media

• • watch my movies on other devices

Writing, Drafting, and Text Editors

Audiobook Builder

• • helps me make audiobooks

BBEdit

• • for when I’m doing rudimentary php coding, trying to break my websites

Folding Text

• • a text editor to focus on individual sections

Hemingway Editor

• • great for helping me improvinate my sentences

iA Writer

• • a text editor for focus

Keynote

• • a solid presentation device – used for the bulk of making Being Productive

Pages

• • A solid word processor and text designer

MindNode

• • great for mind-mapping

Scrivener

• • the workhorse of all text programs. This is what I write books with

Ulysses

• • a nice all around text manager

Zettelkasten

• • a notetaking app I’ve been recently experimenting with and really excited by

Zotero

• • a free research assistant app

PDF Management

PDF Expert

• • a PDF editor

PDFpenPro

• • another PDF editor

Preview

• • an unsung hero of default PDF tools

Images

Capto

• • great for managing and marking up screenshots

Pixelmator

• • solid image editor

ScreenFloat

• • for when I need a screenshot to continue floating above other windows