Ten years ago I wrote a post – Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging

I am really stuck in my ways! or, more charitably, I found what worked for me, and have continued with it.

In 2014 the five apps were – Evernote – Dropbox – Sanebox – Feedly – WasteNoTime

I still use four of these on a daily basis; the exception is that I replaced the last with 1Focus. I can’t remember why I switched. A couple of these have become more expensive and so I’ve moved to more limited plans/features to reduce the cost.

I say a bit about why I use these in the original post, and most of the reasons hold true now as well. Alongside Dropbox I also use iCloud for my library of pdfs, partly because it only keeps recently used things offline on the laptop to save memory, but I can access anything wherever I have an internet connection.

(Please note the Sanebox link above gives $5 off if you subscribe, which also benefits me too.)

The ones I should probably add are Audacity – basic audio editing software, which I use when I’ve recorded a talk and want to tidy up the file – normalise volume, reduce noise, edit start and end of the recording, etc. and then convert to mp3 – and Todoist

The one I would probably most benefit from is some kind of project management app, but I’ve never really looked into those. Other suggestions welcome too.