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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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 Quicksilver, but only because I've...Submitted by _Zippy_ (not verified) on August 21, 2006 - 7:05am.
Quicksilver, but only because I've just started using it Omnioutliner (and kGTD) linked to Novamind (so that counts as one, doesn't it?) Devonthink Pro/DevonAgent - I bought this as a bundle so they can count as one again! Others would include TechTool Pro (my external drive refused to be fixed by anything other than a reboot into TTP followed by an afternoon of "Wipe Data" Virtual Villagers ("Last Day of Work") as that means LOTS of people get things done What was the limit again? No Safari? Mail? Go on iCal at least, and I won't mention iTunes! » POSTED IN:
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