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A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and others like it. Items can be either old or new as long as they are wonderful. We post things we like and ignore the rest. Suggestions for tools much better than what is recommended here are always wanted.
Field Notes Brand Heavy Duty Edition - I adore Field Notes. They have a new styled notebook every quarter. You can subscribe and get a discount but I buy them thinking I won’t need the next one. I’m always wrong. I use the pocket notebooks for logging my day and the larger ones for gathering my thoughts.
NuPhy Air96 V2 keyboard - I used the standard Mac keyboard forever. I didn’t realize how much I missed the tactile clacks. And its retro looks are so stylish.
DIGITAL
Clean Shot X - supercharges the mac's screen capture tool. Clean Shot makes it easy to annotate your screenshots, too. So helpful for drawing someone’s attention to areas of a website.
Text Sniper - Extract text from images. Why is this tool not built in? You see text in an image and rather than having to retype, Text Sniper allows you take essentially an invisible screenshot, that loads the image’s text into your clipboard. Very accurate.
INVISIBLE
“I am searching for that which is real of my heart, and which when completed I can stand humble to one side of and say: ‘This is it, this is how I feel, this is my honest interpretation of the world; this is not influenced by money, or trickery, or pressure...except the pressure of my soul.’” — W. Eugene Smith
