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Tools

Hardware

Puter

Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 15" Retnia. 2.3 i7 with 16GB of RAM.

Monitor

27" Apple Cinema Display.

Puter bag

Any Chrome Mini Metro bag. I currently have a Mini Metro Night and a custom all white one from the Chicago hub.

These are the most comfortable bags in the world and I will continue to buy them forever.

Phone

Black 2012 iPhone 5.

Tablet

White 2013 64G WiFi only iPad Air.

Office

I work from home or from Seed Coworking.

Desk

From home, I have an l-shaped Parsons Desk with frosted glass top from Room and Board.

From Seed, I have an IKEA Galant with grey top and t-legs.

Chair

From home, I have a Herman Miller Aeron Chair.

Software

Productivity

Email

I am using Google Apps for Business as my email. I only have one email address/account (brilliantfantastic.com) that all others are forwarded to (seedcoworking.com, wrightin.gs, etc). My email clients are set up in such a way that they can reply as the user who the email was originally sent to.

I use AirMail on the Mac.

I use the Gmail on the iPhone and the iPad.

Calendar

I am using Google Apps for Business as my calendar.

I use Fantastical on the Mac to enter calendar events. I also use the Google web view on occasion.

I use Fantastical on the iPhone as my primary calendar.

I use the Apple Calendar app on the iPad.

Task management

For personal task management, I use OmniFocus on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

I enter/complete tasks in OmniFocus on the Mac. Each morning I will copy stories from different Pivotol projects that I want to get to that day so that everything is in OmniFocus.

I complete/review tasks (usually errands) on the iPhone but I will occasionally enter quick tasks on the iPhone in the Inbox to deal with later. I have Reminders syncing with OmniFocus on the iPhone so I can enter quick tasks using Siri.

I do task review before bed every Sunday on the iPad. I aggresively remove stuff that I will never get to. I do not set due dates on stuff I don't believe I will get to that week. I try to set due dates on the days for that week for stuff I want to do. If I do not get to it and it is not urgent, I remove the due date so it can be reviewed the next week.

Time boxing

I currently use the Pomodoro technique to time box the work I do during the day. It makes me a lot more productive.

I currenly use Eggscellent to enable Pomodoros on the Mac. Since I do most work on my Mac, I don't need or want an iPhone or iPad version.

Accounting

Invoicing

I send invoices using Freshbooks. I also use Freshbooks to track how much a client owes, payments, etc.

Time Tracking

I track my time using the Freshbooks web application on the Mac. I enter a half hour after each Pomodoro I complete for the given pomodoro session.

I usually never find myself doing work for a customer without WiFi access but in those cases, I enter my time using the Freshbooks iPhone application on the iPhone.

Expenses

I use the Neat Filing System to track receipts. I have the Neat Receipts Scanner in the office. I try and scan receipts when I get them each day but I also dedicate some time on Sundays to scan any missing receipts. These are scanned and stored in the Neat for Mac application. They are also stored in Neat Cloud.

I rarely have paper receipts because I often use the Neat iPhone application to snap a photo of the receipt and these are uploaded to the Neat Cloud and synced with the Mac.

Contractors that I use send me invoices through Freshbooks and these expenses are tracked within Freshbooks.

Communication

Group communication

I do instant communication with clients and friends using Campfire. I have several rooms set up. One for each client and a few for different groups of friends.

I often put a custom Hubot in each room to make things more enjoyable.

I use Flint as the Campfire client on the Mac and the iPhone.

Individual communication

I use Messages from my Mac, iPhone, and iPad for communication with blue bubble people. I talk to green bubble people as well but they are not as fun.

Music

I pay for Spotify and use it mostly throughout the day on my Mac and iPhone.

I also use iTunes on my Mac and iPhone for music I own.

When I am away from Mac, I listen to Podcasts using Castro on my iPhone.

Running projects

I use Pivotal Tracker for managing development projects.

I use GitHub for source control.

Sometimes I use Basecamp for managing extra non-code related tasks for teams as well as for team communication.

I use Campfire for communication between team members.

Designing

Mockups

Graphic

Writing code

Continuous Integration

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