Tools
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Alfred
A very powerful productivity tool for the Mac, which replaces Spotlight search and adds a lot of time-saving tools to the universal search bar.
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Arc Browser
The team behind Arc browser is trying to reinvent the browser. Arc is simply awesome and I highly recommend everybody to at least give it a try.
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Balsamiq
A simple but easy to use wireframing tool that keeps you from falling into designing at a stage, where designing is not the task at hand.
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Better Touch Tool
Allows for a lot of customization on touchpad gestures and general behavior. It also enables macros and custom triggers to enable chains of actions through touchpad gestures.
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Buffer
An online tool to manage and schedule posts across multiple Social Media Networks, reducing the necessity to log into different networks.
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Calendly
Handles meeting scheduling fully automatically and saves hours of sending emails with proposed dates for meetings back and forth.
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CleanShot X
The best screenshot and screen-recording tool there is for the Mac. It includes just the right amount of features for a screenshot and recording tool.
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Coda
A documentation tool for teams like no other. Coda helps you build single-source of truth (SSOT) style documents with powerful databases, forms and automations.
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Eagle
The perfect design inspiration collection tool, where you can store, catalogue and sort screenshots, designs and even complete websites.
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Fantastical
Expensive (subscription-based) pricing but definitively the best calendar tool there is. My whole business and private life is organized with Fantastical.
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FigJam
An online whiteboard within the Figma application, which enables you to work together as a team with sticky notes, create and facilitate workshops.
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Figma
The currently best tool for UI design, design systems — especially if working with other team members.
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iStat Menus
Provides all the in-depth and nerdy information about the Mac, from temperatures to CPU, GPU and RAM load to everything else.
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Jira
A very complex but complete software for managing Scrum- or Kanban-based workflows within teams.
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Loom
Create simple and fast screen recordings with voice over instead of meetings. Especially helpful for feedback on design, websites, and anything else visual.
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Make
Create simple or very complex automations and move data between different tools easily and automatically. Pretty simple to use but very flexible.
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Miro
An online whiteboard with a whole range of different features and helpful templates to facilitate UX research workshops, and facilitate remote workshops.
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Mobbin
A collection of different apps and screenshots of different screen designs, which can help you find inspiration for specific UI elements.
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Notion
A powerful documentation tool with a delightful text editor that is based on Markdown, with databases and sheer endless possibilities.
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Obsidian
The best Markdown editor, which is completely free and very customizable through plugins and themes. There is also a huge community surrounding the tool.
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Pixelsnap
A tool to measure distances, sizes or anything else on-screen. It can also create custom guidelines on the screen to measure alignment of elements.
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Raindrop
A very powerful bookmark manager that solves many issues you will encounter when trying to manage bookmarks via the native browser bookmark manager.
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Raycast
A very powerful Spotlight alternative which has a vibrant plugin community, awesome UX and a very nice design.
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Readwise
Readwise collects and syncs any highlights I take reading eBooks, websites, PDFs and ePubs into an easy to use app and also into my Obsidian note-taking system.
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Readwise Reader
A universal reader and read-it-later app, which collects RSS feeds, newsletters, articles and more. Directly integrated into the Readwise service.
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Rebrandly
Awesome free tool for branded links (even in the free version) and some light tracking possibilities.
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Rotato
Create very slick looking mockup images and even videos of your UI designs. The UI is very simple to use and produces very unique results.
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sevDesk
Complete invoicing and bookkeeping tool with automatic import from bank account to help with invoice tracking. Also features proposals, recurring invoices and simple expense tracking.
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Shottr
Probably the best free screenshot tool for Mac with a lot of super-helpful features and built-in editing tools.
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Slack
One of the best communication applications that helps tremendously with cross-team communication and can even help building communities for specific topics.
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Spark Email
A very different email client, that makes processing a lot of emails very fast and efficient. Now also features AI capabilities for composing emails.
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Timely
Automatically tracks time for individual applications and includes things like browser tab or window names to make it easier to assign different things to projects and clients.
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Toggl
A simple time tracking tool, which also provides various analytics and sharable dashboards for clients with time-based contracts.
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Trello
A simple kanban-based tool for managing tasks either for yourself or within a team.
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Vivaldi Browser
A free browser based on Chromium but highly customizable and extendable — and without any Google tracking tech.
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Whimsical
A very flexible tool for UX research and documentation with a special focus on diagrams, wireframes and written documents.
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Zeplin
A handoff and documentation tool, that can help with feedback and handoff for designs by importing from Figma, Sketch, XD and other design tools.
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Zeroheight
A very easy-to-use design documentation tool for design systems which can connect directly to Figma to synchronize styles, components and much more.