I’m not going to lie, Obsidian is really cool. It’s a Markdown-based note system that has a ton of cool features, and even more with its healthy plugin community.
markdown, marked, obsidian, plugin, productivity
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 10 licenses ($14.99 value each) for MacUpdater. I run MacUpdater every day to keep all of my software up to date. It keeps track of every update released for hundreds of Mac Apps, including Mac App Store apps. You can ignore individual updates or entire apps, so it only acts on the apps you want updated. It makes installing all available updates a one-click affair in most cases. Keeping your apps updated makes sure you always have the latest…
giveaway, macos
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 3 licenses ($59.99 value each) for BBEdit. BBEdit is the longest-running text editor on the Mac, and it’s only gotten better through the years. With amazing extensibility using AppleScript, a notebook manager, Anaconda Virtual Environments, regex pattern playgrounds, and much, much more, it’s the best solution out there for native text editing on the Mac. Version 15 adds a minimap, expandable “cheat sheets,” ChatGPT Worksheets, a new…
developer, giveaway, macos
One of the major things I use mind maps for is developing longer-form writing. I do best spitting out all of my ideas for topics and chapters into a mind map, then editing the nodes into chapters and paragraphs. I’ve always done this with iThoughts, which has great keyboard shortcuts for navigating and switching between node and notes panels. Then I would view the piece as it came together using Marked’s iThoughts integration, and when it was in a mostly gelled state, I would export Markdown…
editor, markdown, marked, mindmapping, writing
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 2 licenses ($39.99 value each) for Acorn. If you don’t need the bulk of Photoshop but want all of the image editing power, check out Acorn. It loads up in seconds and offers all the image editing tools and flexible image processing you need. I absolutely love Acorn. In addition to standard image editing tools, it has capabilities for text on a path, photo effects, non-destructive filters, and the vector tools you need for design work.
giveaway, macos, tools
So a lot of us are wondering what to do now that Toketaware has announced the sunsetting of the iThoughts mind mapping app for Mac and iOS. It’s very sad to see it go, but I expect the current version to continue working for a few years to come. That said, I tend to favor software that has at least somewhat of a future. So I’ve been testing the waters with some other contenders. The short story is I’m moving over to MindNode.
appreview, apps, markdown, marked, mindmapping, plugin, review
