Software I Love…
Recently I’ve come across some software that’s completely changed the way I work. I love it when start-ups take the time to create high quality desktop software, instead of another “digg meets flickr on steroids” website clone. Here are some apps that I find indispensible these days.
Evernote lets you pretty much store and organize any sort of information that might possibly enter your brain. In fact, their slogan is “Remember Everything.”
Things is the best GTD task organizer I have ever used. In the past, I’ve always just ended up going back to notepad. But this one is super simple and BETTER than notepad 
Rescue Time helps me track where my time is going. It runs in the background and logs which applications and websites I spend my time on. At the end of the day I can see where I’ve been wasting time and where I’ve been productive.
Sugar Sync gives me peace of mind. It auto syncs all my important files both online and to my desktop computer. As soon as I make a change on one computer, it gets stored and synced everywhere. I never have to worry about losing my data.
Skitch is just a simple photo editing app that does 90% of what you need it to do. It’s no Photoshop, but it’ll do most of what you need when you need it.
The last one isn’t a desktop app, it’s Google Sites, their Wiki product. I’ve become addicted to it as a personal data management tool. I use it for almost everything instead of Word these days. It’s simply the best Wiki out there.
UPDATE: I forgot to add one piece of software that I use ALL THE TIME: Launch Bar. It lets you instantly open any application with a few key strokes. It’s like Spotlight on steroids. It’s amazing.
