The Mac Apps Folder

I’m rather proud of having more than 400 apps installed on my Mac. According to Lingon X, I have 102 apps either as login items or running in the background as helper apps. I have a hobby blog, AppAddict where I write an app review every day, always something I have downloaded, installed and used on my personal Mac. I love my Setapp subscription because it gives me an evergrowing library of high quality apps to try out for the same monthly price. But if all this goodness evaporated suddenly and i was forced to run vanilla Mac OS plus twenty apps to get my work done, which out of all the ones that own would I choose? Answering this requires some tough choices. may of these apps I have been using for more than a decade, although a few have been adopted in the past year.

  1. Obsidian - an extensible note taking app
  2. Clean Shot X - the best screen shot utility
  3. Raycast - an app launcher that handles much more
  4. Keyboard Maestro - the ultimate Mac automation tool
  5. Microsoft Edge - my choice for web browsing for reasons
  6. PopClip - a text selection utility
  7. TextExpander - a snippets app
  8. Drafts - a text automation app
  9. Day One - the preeminent journaling app for macOS
  10. Default Folder X - an enhancement for open and save dialog boxes
  11. Hazel - a Mac automation tool for file management
  12. DropZone 4- a file shelf utility
  13. Toyviewer - a Preview replacement for images with editing capabilities
  14. PathFinder - a replacement for Finder (although I might opt for Qspace)
  15. ScrapPaper - a menu bar utility for floating notes
  16. BarTender - I didn’t buy into the hysteria, I just set up some Little Snitch rules
  17. Better Touch Tool - multi-purpose automation app
  18. Find Any File - a search utility
  19. Things 3- a task manager
  20. Outlook - for better or worse, it’s the email app I use to get work done (note to self: do better)