Productivity apps
I'm currently trying out a few interesting productivity applications on OS X. I'm much enamored of Yojimbo, which is a data storage and retrieval application. I'm moving my task lists, information lists, and pretty much all the information that I've been collecting for the past few years into this. And since it syncs with .Mac, it also makes it easy to have the same data on both my laptop and my desktop, and use it offline as well. I think the "holy grail" of applications are going to be online apps with offline access and syncing, and this is a decent start.
The other is Journaler. I was actually writing my own application like Journaler when I discovered it. I may continue development on that, but for now I want to spend a bit more time actually writing in my journal rather than writing journaling software.
In fact, this is one of the big problems of being a software developer. It is often so much easier to think about the software you could write to accomplish tasks than it is to actually do the tasks you want to do. Especially when there are apps that are over 50% of the way towards what you need already, and the advanced features you want to write would still require you to write that 50% of program function before you could implement it.
The other is Journaler. I was actually writing my own application like Journaler when I discovered it. I may continue development on that, but for now I want to spend a bit more time actually writing in my journal rather than writing journaling software.
In fact, this is one of the big problems of being a software developer. It is often so much easier to think about the software you could write to accomplish tasks than it is to actually do the tasks you want to do. Especially when there are apps that are over 50% of the way towards what you need already, and the advanced features you want to write would still require you to write that 50% of program function before you could implement it.