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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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 Journler for use as a...Submitted by Anneliese (not verified) on August 21, 2006 - 10:34am.
Journler for use as a diary and to keep track of all of my GTD projects and next action lists, and to store reference material. Like Erik said, run, don't walk. Phil Dow is awesome. That is my one killer app. Here are some others I don't think I could do without: iTunes for organizing literature articles (I'm a grad student in chemistry). It's beautiful, really. Keynote for all of my presentations. And I rely heavily on iPhoto, Mail, iCal, and Safari. » POSTED IN:
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