Your System - Functions and Apps That Fulfill Them

Posted by Beck
Feb 7, 2019 at 04:07 AM

Fun topic, Jake. :)

1. Brainstorming : Good ol’ fashioned whiteboard, GoodNotes, Workflowy (happy)*
2a. Random Notetaking : Bullet Journal, GoodNotes (happy)
2b. Intentional Notetaking : Tinderbox (happy)
3. Scheduling : Fantastical (wish for something more elegant/spacious/accommodating of time blocking)
4. Task Management : Omnifocus 3 w/Bullet Journal for capture and TaskPaper for weekly planning (imperfect, but works well enough)
5. Thought Processing : Tinderbox, Morning Pages
6. Knowledge Archive : DevonThink
7. Project Knowledge : Project Memos in Google Docs, Task Paper, in some ways OF3 (could use a better system here)

8. Mail: MailMate (very happy)
9a. Writing: Currently unhappy and searching (considering Scrivener, Ulysses, Mellel, have used… everything)
9b. Editing: Hemingway (happy)
10. Reference: Paperpile (considering Bookends despite Pp’s elegance b/c #9)

11. Reading: DevonThink To Go (happy cause of sync to DTPO, but like GoodNotes and LiquidText a lot, too)
12. Grading: Annotated GoodNotes PDFs uploaded to Canvas (can’t stand Canvas of course, but otherwise happy w/this)

* Anyone else wish CMapTools wasn’t so darn… pixelated? Darn retina displays.