I was using one of my more niche apps this morning for a work project and got to thinking about the little productivity things I have on my Mac that most people don’t. I’m not talking about Fantastical or BBEdit, which are well-known tools; I’m talking about the “I solved a problem” apps, like Tyke, which scratched a specific itch for a specific thing.
My list is not long, but here they are.
Itsycal—Simple calendaring tool that also lets you customize the presentation of date and time in the menu bar. I click into the month view multiple times a week. I also prefer its date stamp to the default MacOS options.
Free Ruler—I think this has been on my machine in one form or another for 25 years. Measure stuff, straighten stuff. Leaves itself as a transparent overlay while you manipulate whatever it is you’re wrangling in the active app. Perfect.
Flickr Uploadr—I’m still a Flickr user, thanks to the thousands of tagged and captioned photos that I can’t seem to export with their full data sets. And when I want to upload new photos, the Uploader is a delight. Make a desktop folder, drop photos into it Dropbox-style, see photos on Flickr. That’s all it does. That’s all I need it to do.