A quick post to share my current top 5 favourite tools & apps (this isn’t a post about new apps, more those tools I’m using a lot):
*ifttt – With the tagline: ‘Put the internet to work for you’ – is a brilliantly simple yet clever idea which automates your use of the web. For example every time I post to Instagram, ifttt saves it to Evernote for me. Every time I favourite a tweet, it plugs it into Instapaper. There are some fantastic ‘recipes’ from other people you can use or you can create your own. Which bring me on to….
*Instapaper – Save web articles to read offline. Brilliant on the iPad and equally useful on the laptop. I constantly come across interesting stuff on twitter and elsewhere, now I tend to store them up and read them in a bunch, and (obviously) you don’t need wifi access.
*Feedly - I still use RSS loads, to catch up on new stuff. Feedly remains my favourite way to sort through my google reader subscriptions (although yes, Flipboard is very pretty), particularly as I can switch between views – from ‘latest’ to individual topics ‘history’ or ’saved’ stuff.
*tweetbot – twitter client for the iPhone. Very slick and intuitive UI. Miles better than official iPhone (although who remembers how much we loved tweetie?)
*Evernote – Note taking on steriods. After years of persevering, I’m finally starting to get real value out of this. The more you use, the better it gets. Although I still feel like I’m barely scraping the surface of all the ways I could be using it
What are your current favourite tools & apps?
Great post. My current favourites:
Trello
Really handy project collaboration tool, great for keeping track of that growing mountain of tasks.
Flipboard
Your very own “social magazine”, fed by RSS, Facebook, Twitter etc.
FreeAgent
Headache free online accounting
1Password
Remembers all your passwords (and more) so you don’t have to.
Pastebot
Share your iPhone clipboard with your Mac
Great list James. Diigo (for bookmarking) is another I use loads. But that would have made it top 6 not top 5