Productivity Apps
- Notion : I stack this with Google Calendar to manage note-taking and organizing tasks across personal and professional objectives
- Listnote Pro: Dictate your notes
- Otter.AI: Transcription app. Great for capturing conversations
- Google Lens: Translate text or copy text visible in a photo to your clipboard.
- TaskRabbit: Find people to help you get things done
- Liner: Highlight what you read online and save them to the cloud
- IFTTT: ‘If This Then That’ lets you script integrations between hundreds of connected apps. Lots of canned recipes ordered by popularity.
Chrome Browser Extensions
- SessionBuddy: A history of where and when your browser tabs were open. Easy to restore to a previous session. If you keep many tabs open (who doesn’t) this will save you a headache
- LastPass: password manager. Not sure how you are living without one. Convenient and an extra layer of security
- Grammarly: Spell and grammar check in realtime
- Toby: Chrome extension to manage tabs. I like it for commonly visited pages instead of bookmarks
- Ebates: get cash back at almost any site you buy from that’s not Amazon
- Keepa or Camelizer: And for the stuff you buy on Amazon know the price history so you don’t get gamed by the bots
- Enhanced History: Fuller browser history extension
- Google Dictionary: View definitions as you browse
Reading
- Tweetdeck: Column based Twitter dashboard allowing you to maintain hashtag searches and display parallel lists. If you use Twitter on a desktop, this tool is life-changing
- Feedly: Manage RSS subscriptions
- Overdrive and Libby apps: access some of your local library titles digitally
Habit Building
- Habitbull: Track your habits to generate momentum and streaks that build towards your goals
- My Fitness Pal: Food-logging. Huge database of crowdsourced nutritional content makes calorie counting easier than you think
- Anki: use the technique of ‘spaced repetition’ to learn something new. Here’s an awesome introduction to spaced repetition.
Web Messaging
- Whatsapp Web: use whatsapp in your desktop browser
- Android Web Messages: use your Android phone’s text messaging app in your desktop browser
Guitar
- Amazing Slow Downer: Slow and speed music tracks. Loop sections, save and export snips at the speeds you want. The feature that sets this app apart: This works on your Spotify playlists! The app I’m happiest to pay for
- Amplitube: Buy a mobile interface and you can plug right into your phone and access a wide range of effects and amps. You can output the signal to headphones or speakers
- Audio Evolution: An inexpensive multi-track DAW for your mobile device
Apps I’m Trialing