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A Summary List of My Electronic Tools

March 27, 2009 by Matt Perman

Here is a quick list of some of the main tools I use:

  • Laptop: MacBook Pro 15″ [I have the version prior to the one found in this link]
  • Email: Mac Mail [I bring my Gmail and work mail into here]
  • Calendar: iCal
  • Contacts: Mac Address Book
  • Task Management: OmniFocus
  • Capture tool 1: Moleskine journal
  • Capture tool 2: Jott for iPhone
  • Mobile device: iPhone
  • Web browser: Firefox
  • Feed reader: NetNewsWire
  • Keeping up with Twitter: Tweetdeck
  • Twitter on my iPhone: Tweetie and sometimes Twitfire
  • Office tools: Microsoft Office for Mac [but considering a switch to iWork at some point]; also use Google Docs a lot — great for sharing documents without doing attachments
  • Diagramming, creating flow charts and org charts and etc.: MindManager and OmniGraffle
  • Financial Management: Quicken [have to run this on Windows on my Mac — I don’t recommend the Mac version; I’ll be doing a post on financial software for the Mac coming up]
  • Running Windows on my Mac: VMWare’s Fusion
  • Computer backups: Time Machine

At some point I will provide more detail on each of these and how I use them, but a straight list is hopefully a good place to start in the meantime.

Note that this list is just the electronic side of things (with the exception of my moleskine notebook for a capture tool), and I’m probably leaving several things out. I also have recommendations for the physical side — what type of stapler to get, what type of physical in box, and so forth.

Note that most of the above software is for the Mac. When I was on Windows, I used Outlook for email, calendar, contacts, and task management — and was relatively happy with it because I customized things very heavily (for details, see the David Allen Company whitepaper on Customizing Microsoft Outlook for GTD).

(Thanks to one of my readers for suggesting this post!)

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