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10 Mac apps that can simplify your life
Is there such a thing as too many apps? Check out my top 10 for simplifying daily life.
How many are too many?
If you want me to click on your story, craft a heading which promises to tell me a different way to use an app I already have, or thrill me by talking about how your life is better because of one I’ve never seen before.
Apps — especially new ones — can represent the anticipation of possibility, of discovery, of a new way of looking at old ideas.
And so I will probably continue to gather them, try them on for size, and lovingly incubate their virtual potential for a time I’ll know only when it comes. Well organised digital clutter can be so much more comforting than its physical counterpart!
How many do you have, and do you use them all?
Consider the number of apps you have right now on your main computer and the subset of those you use in any given week. Does the ratio surprise you? Are you satisfied, puzzled, neutral, shocked, ambivalent? Whatever your reaction, ponder for a moment what it can teach you about your productivity habits and your propensity…
