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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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Script Editor, XCode, todo.sh, nano,...Submitted by Fondomatic (not verified) on August 22, 2006 - 2:14am.
Script Editor, XCode, todo.sh, nano, TextEdit, Tiddlywiki. Script Editor & XCode for obvious reasons. Now that Gina's todo.sh has me hooked on plain text, I find nano oh-too-convenient for slamming info into a text file in my home directory. I like using TextEdit indespensible for formatting rtfd files for user documentation, but have shifted to using Tiddlywiki. » POSTED IN:
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