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I know this sounds like a small thing, but it matters. Bus圜al does this right and just gives you a properties pane in the same window. In Calendar and Fantastical, when you click on an event and want to edit it, you get a stupid popup. But Bus圜al does one thing right that both these other fail on, which is how event editing works. I used to use Apple’s Calendar, and for several years used Fanstastical. Also, if you use Mail, you should check out the super-useful msgFiler and SpamSieve. Every once in a while I think about trying something else but it just seems like too much work.

For my mail client I just use Apple Mail.

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I probably use Excel more, though, because Numbers does two things particularly badly: you can only sort full rows (it treats each row as a unitary record), and exporting to text is awful. As far as I can tell, there’s no good answer here.

Spreadsheets? Yeah, I switch back and forth between Microsoft Excel and Apple Numbers.

PowerPoint is also still awful, and Keynote is actually good. I do a lot of presentations (for class), so this gets pretty heavy use. For collaborating with colleagues, though, if they’re engineers or computer science people, now ending up often in Overleaf (which really means BBEdit and upload), and if they’re not, well, I spend more time in Google Docs than I’d like.

For papers and other written documents, I use Apple Pages.

I have probably a thousand outlines on my machine. Been on this one for a very long time as well (though not 25 years) and it’d be an absolute nightmare to get rid of this. I think in hierarchies, which means outlines. Taking raw text data and cleaning it up for later data analysis? Absolutely. Use it all the time for all kinds of things. BBEdit is past its 25th anniversary, and I’ve been using it that long. There are some real changes here since the last time around, but certain things here will probably never change.

They’re a little flaky, though, and sometimes the Mac can’t seem to see them and anything attached to them. Optical audio out is the reason I chose this brand. Since machines no longer have reasonable port selections, I have one of these at work and one at home. At both work and home, I have an OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock, though I have an older model than the one they sell now.Also still using Griffin PowerMate for media stuff (volume control, play/pause), but they don’t make these anymore.Unfortunately, this is probably the best piece of hardware Apple makes. As my pointing device, I use Apple Magic Trackpad 2.However, the key caps are wearing off, which is kind of a bummer. Great action, love the Cherry MX Clear switches.

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My keyboard of choice is still the CODE keyboard.Peripherals and tweaks that seem worthwhile:

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Desktop is an iMac Pro and laptop is a recent MacBook Pro with the useless and stupid touch bar and 4 USB-C ports but nothing else. I spend probably eight hours a day in front of a computer or a mobile device, so I’m pretty invested and this is a long list, broken in to multiple categories.ĭespite all previous ranting, still using Apple hardware. I’m kind of a junkie for this kind of thing, and people ask me this question periodically, and I haven’t updated in a while and things have definitely changed. Every few years, I write up what hardware/software I use.