Macintosh
Favorite Productivity Applications - Mac
December 10, 2005 21:55 Filed in:
Technology 3.0
Here is the list of must have
applications on my desktop:
MS Office productivity suite - I have to be compatible with the world... Word, Excel and PowerPoint are always one click away.
Novamind mindmapping tool - the first application I open when I get a new idea. Novamind, like its Windows competitor, MindJet, Novamind let's me quickly organize a cloud of thoughts. With the latest version, those thoughts can be used to easily generate a presentation (via Keynote), a project document (via Merlin), a formatted outline (via OmniOutliner Pro), or even a website.
Merlin project management software - there are lots of things I love about Merlin: 1) it is a great project management tool that does all that MS Project can do and more, 2) it is stable, 3) it can be operated via keyboard, and 4) It plays nicely with other tools. I can import an outline or mindmap directly from Novamind. Since Novamind can read .opml files (as generated by Omni Outliner) and can output presentation documents, I can now move between mindmap, outlining, project management and presentation tools, without loosing my outline structure. Try that on windows. Microsoft doesn't seem to know opml exists.
Rapidweaver - I use Rapidweaver to create and edit this blog. I know that you can create a blog with any text editing tool, but ... WHY? For just a few dollars, you can create richly formatted content that supports both RSS and Podcast extensions. With Rapidweaver, you can create rich sites that would take much more time to develop with Dreamweaver (which I also use). While there are other tools that are great for creating websites, developing RSS feeds or publishing podcasts, I credit the people at Realmacsoftware for being the first to combine the three in one elegant package. I just showed a Rapidweaver site to our Director responsible for client web technologies. If only our enterprise web systems could do what Rapidweaver does.
MS Office productivity suite - I have to be compatible with the world... Word, Excel and PowerPoint are always one click away.
Novamind mindmapping tool - the first application I open when I get a new idea. Novamind, like its Windows competitor, MindJet, Novamind let's me quickly organize a cloud of thoughts. With the latest version, those thoughts can be used to easily generate a presentation (via Keynote), a project document (via Merlin), a formatted outline (via OmniOutliner Pro), or even a website.
Merlin project management software - there are lots of things I love about Merlin: 1) it is a great project management tool that does all that MS Project can do and more, 2) it is stable, 3) it can be operated via keyboard, and 4) It plays nicely with other tools. I can import an outline or mindmap directly from Novamind. Since Novamind can read .opml files (as generated by Omni Outliner) and can output presentation documents, I can now move between mindmap, outlining, project management and presentation tools, without loosing my outline structure. Try that on windows. Microsoft doesn't seem to know opml exists.
Rapidweaver - I use Rapidweaver to create and edit this blog. I know that you can create a blog with any text editing tool, but ... WHY? For just a few dollars, you can create richly formatted content that supports both RSS and Podcast extensions. With Rapidweaver, you can create rich sites that would take much more time to develop with Dreamweaver (which I also use). While there are other tools that are great for creating websites, developing RSS feeds or publishing podcasts, I credit the people at Realmacsoftware for being the first to combine the three in one elegant package. I just showed a Rapidweaver site to our Director responsible for client web technologies. If only our enterprise web systems could do what Rapidweaver does.
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