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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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 I know many of you...Submitted by Julius (not verified) on August 21, 2006 - 9:51am.
I know many of you won't like this... My killer app is Outlook. It runs 90% of the time and is 100% integrated with my Palm. By choice? Not really. But with the years, I've tweaked it to my satisfaction, or nearly so, with some extensions: - SpamBayes filters 99% of my spam, without a false positive - RssPopper delivers my RSS feeds into my one & only inbox (applying GTD principles) - Lookout provides nearly instantaneous search across my outlook items and files - Chilton Preview replaces the buggy, IE-based 'preview window' Anyone better? » POSTED IN:
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