The tools I use should »Do One Thing and Do It Well.«
The apps listed here champion this philosophy. I cannot live without them.
Vector design application for macOS, iPhone, and iPad with advanced illustration features, SVG, PDF, and PSD import/export, and touch optimization.
My go-to vector graphics tool. It‘s small, simple and gets the job done perfectly.
MacDown is an open source Markdown editor for macOS, released under the MIT License. It is heavily influenced by Chen Luo’s Mou.
Simple, functional, well-developed Markdown workhorse for the Mac. Simple as that.
Viscosity is a VPN client for Mac OS X and Windows. It allows a user to connect to a VPN server and establish a VPN connection. Viscosity provides a clear and intuitive user interface for creating, editing, and controlling VPN connections, and makes it easy for users new to VPN...
Viscosity helps me to manage my VPN accesses. Lean, simple, just works.
LaunchControl is the new face of launchd(8). It allows you to manage system- and user services on your Mac. Use it to:
Admins are lazy. Instead of manually working with plists, just whip up LaunchControl.
Image editing app featuring nondestructive, GPU-powered tools with machine learning enhancements for editing on macOS and iOS platforms.
Pixelmator is the part of my content creation workflow, that would be hard to replace.
Banking software for banks which support FinTS/HBCI, keeping all your accounts balance history in a local database and providing a well designed, intuitive user interface (German and English).
It‘s hands-down the best European banking app for MacOS.
Use Notes to capture a quick thought, create checklists, sketch ideas, and more. And with iCloud, you can keep your notes up to date across all your devices.
Notes for iOS and MacOS solved all my note taking issues. Today I use Roam, see below.
Offers real-time grammar checks, generative AI drafting, and comprehensive feedback on clarity, tone, and style for confident and polished writing.
Grammarly helps me writing better English. Its suggestions are spot-on.
Sophisticated text editor for code with sleek interface, multi-select tabs, side-by-side definitions, and swift variable renaming using multiple selections.
Sublime's search capabilities and overall performance are just amazing.
Organizes and stores documents, notes, emails, and media with AI-powered search, OCR, syncing, encryption, web clipping, and offline access across devices.
As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.
Hypertext as it should be. An amazing tool to organize thoughts without imposing any mental model on you. Love it!
A map says more than 1000 words.
Mind mapping helps you organize your thoughts, remember information and generate new ideas. We've created a beautiful, intuitive app, so you can mind map wherever you are and whenever you want.
yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quickly create diagrams manually or import external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. You can use yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams...
Diagramming at its best. Really. Usually, I shy away from using non-native software. yEd's special status is earned by being the best diagramming software. Simple as that.
Specialized single-purpose apps that make my life easier.
aText accelerates your typing by replacing abbreviations with frequently used phrases you define.
EasyFind is an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight to find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.
Developed by the DEVONthink people, this little gem can find any file on my device, and fast.
Retrobatch is a unique application for automating actions to tens, hundreds, and even thousands of images at the same time.
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