Question: What software is absolutely essential to you

Posted by JohnK
Aug 1, 2011 at 02:11 AM

Like many people here, I have spent way too much time looking for the magic bullet, a program which will collect, outline and organise all my data and thoughts, removing the need for other software. A fool’s game, to be sure.

Yet to answer your question, the one piece of software I now regard as essential is a humble clipboard manager, Clipcache Pro (http://www.xrayz.co.uk/clipcache/).

For years I have been throwing data into Clipcache while waiting for other, more powerful programs to come along. In all that time, the Clipcache (Sqlite) database proved to be reliable. Searches of my many years of clippings are quick. It uses a folder structure, so allowing crude organisation of data. It is the first place I look for any bits of information I know I must have squirelled away at some time. Development has slowed to a crawl, but the program is stable.

Meanwhile, countless more powerful and far more expensive programs sit on my computer, unused and unloved.