Productivity Software

Mail

Mimestream native mail client.

Calendar

Fantastical – alternative to Apple Calendar. It has natural-language event entry, calendar sets, multiple-time event proposals, and conference call detection. It can hide events and ignore notifications from shared calendars.

Task Management

Things – to do manager. I dump everything into this.

Web browsers

Safari as go-to browser. Main features: performance, battery life, tab-sharing with iPad and iPhone.

Arc for workspaces and ad hoc scrapbooks / dashboards (via Easels feature).

Google Chrome for when I need multiple personae. (Maybe I will switch to Arc now that it supports this.)

Search Engines: Duck Duck Go, Wikipedia, Wikiwand.

Communications: Slack, Zoom, WeChat, Signal.

Notes and Documents

Apple Notes for quick synchronized notes.

Roam Research for (initially) unstructured notes.

Muse app nested spatial notes, syncs with iPad.

Notion for instructional material, drafts of other mixed-media documents, and web sites. Super.so for publishing Notion to the web.

AirTable for end-user databases (tables that include linked and calculated columns).

Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets

Apple Numbers. Killer feature: being able to include multiple tables and charts as separate entities on a single sheet, instead of mashing them all onto the same grid (or putting them on separate pages).

Bookmarking: Pinboard, Zotero. Previously: Delicio.us.

Reading: Apple Books, Liquid Text, and Preview.

Utilities

1Password password manager.