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Open Thread: What's your killer app?
Merlin Mann | Aug 21 2006
The other day I was talking with someone about the novel and non-obvious ways that people use Excel in their work and home life. Gotta say, I've personally seen some pretty amazing stuff happen when people take a favorite app, get really good at it, then bend it to their will. (And Excel is perfect for this.) This tracks to Danny's Life Hack concept by which the alpha geeks were achieving lofty heights of productivity partly by mastering 1-3 "killer apps" -- then using them to solve most of their information and functional problems in fairly novel ways. So my question for you: What's your killer app? Is there one place where 80% or more of your activity takes place (by choice)? Vim? Excel? Perl? Firefox? Post-it Notes? What's yours and when did you realize you'd become a badass at using it? 106 Comments
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 For very long articles that...Submitted by yclipse (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 11:05am.
For very long articles that I want to read, I like to split them up for ease of reading. I use NoteTab Pro, a versatile text editor. The article is copied to NoteTab - http://www.notetab.com - and then I use search and replace to add a delimiter between each paragraph. The text file can then be imported into Zoot - http://www.zootsoftware.com - using the Import Delimited Files option. I end up with a folder consisting of x items (x being the number of paragraphs). Then I can read the document paragraph by paragraph, and add annotations to the paragraph as desired. » POSTED IN:
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