Rusty Shakleford

The Google ecosystem is almost as hard to avoid as Apple. The way Google products integrate is second to none. Aside from any privacy concerns you may have, the intuitive, powerful and easily...

Craft is a worthy alternative to most any document creators. What it lacks in Notion-style database features it makes up with beautiful design. It's still powerful for managing professional...

Canva—classic! It's a solid platform with a few weaknesses (e.g., logo design). Both the free and paid versions provide excellent value with an intuitive interface, helpful tutorials and an overall...

Among the most powerful writing and note-taking apps, Obsidian provides users with a complex yet easy-to-use network of interconnected notes backed by awesome features such as backlinks and a graph...

Gigabrain is one of those must-have, zero-fluff apps that just works—every time, with efficiency and perfection. The UI is relatively slim compared to the powerful results it brings, and the UX is...

Raycast is peak product design. It's easily the best app I use and my only truly must-have download on any new Mac. And year after year, it only improves—the free version is fantastic, too, but the...

Figma *really* is that good—a powerful tool for designers with a wide feature set spanning most common designer tasks, including a good collaboration feature allowing users to work together to find...

Originally a Sketch clone, Lunacy works decently well but sometimes presents some clunky issues.

Sketch offers a great, inexpensive all-around platform for UI/UX design and prototyping. It's proven useful as a daily driver for some of my professional work.

Just getting my hands dirty with Gapier, but the enticing UI/UX is quite good so far. It's as easy as the devs say to set up, and the platform is powerful.

Awesome launch! Unicorns Club offers a powerful fundraising solution for startups and investors.

Great product, intriguing company but debatable future. I love the browser (but dislike the abandonment of Apple's older Intel-chip devices) and hope the company pulls through its recent setbacks,...

It's a pretty damn good email service, although I'm excited for the upcoming Notion Mail app, which, for me, could compete with Gmail. I already enjoy Shortwave (the free version) and Neo, the...

Not my favourite UI/UX, but the playlist feature is fantastic. As of September 2024, you can stream 44.1kHz (16-bit), 48kHz (24-bit) or even 192kHz (24-bit) lossless audio *and* use spatial audio...

Fantastic company, fantastic product. Everything's coming up Milhouse.

Great design, good features, decent security and less than ideal privacy. I'd use Arc, for all its faults but especially for its many merits, if my computer was better than the utter trash it is.

A fantastic comprehensive do-it-all second brain-type system.

So far, so great—love it way more than traditional static journaling or any other similar app I've tried. Currently on the free plan but eager to try the paid plan in due time.