Software I use that I feel is somewhat noteworthy includes:
- Evernote – I use this on every device I own, mostly to take notes in meetings and training sessions, and then to revise/reflect later. A lot of my notes are now photographs of whiteboards, which Evernote handles very well.
- Atom – A text editor that handles Markdown well, and can preview and export to PDF. This pretty much handles all of my writing/blogging work within one application. I’m currently writing this post in Atom. I also use Pandoc to convert to PDF, HTML and/or .docx if required.
- Trello – I’ve just started using this for my to do list, and it’s a good way to visualise the planning and execution of any task based work.
- Keynote – For presentations. I wouldn’t say I’m a power user, but I can throw together a half decent presentation now.
- Dropbox – Cloud storage and synching software to ensure I can access everything everywhere.
- IFTTT and Buffer – To automate as much as possible. Between them they handle a lot of the seemingly clever things in my digital life, and explain why I seem to be able to post to social media sites at times when I appear to be elsewhere.
- NVivo – As a lot of the data I work with is words rather than numbers this is proving somewhat invaluable. I use the Mac version, but should get round to exploring the Windows version soon as I understand it has some different features.
- Virtualbox – Because no-one needs as many physical computers as I had before virtualisation was a thing.
I’m always happy to talk about any of this software and how I use it to be productive.