Teaching only takes place when learning does. Learning only takes place when you teach something to yourself. Anthony de Mello
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ChatGPT 4
The incredible ChatGPT 4 language model.
Adobe’s AI Image Generator
Experiment with the latest in generative AI from the Adobe Firefly Beta
AIPRM Premium
A user-to-user support community for AIPRM - the Prompt Community that provides curated high quality prompt templates right inside ChatGPT. 1-Click Prompts in ChatGPT for SEO, Marketing, Copywriting, Generative AI (Midjourney) and more.
OpenRun Pro Headphones
Premium bone conduction open-ear sport headphones. https://shokz.com/ Combined with this https://www.resound.com/en-au/hearing-aids/apps/smart
Neosensory Duo for Tinnitus
10 minutes a day can completely change your relationship with tinnitus.
Blue Blocking Amber Glasses for Sleep
Blue Light Blocking: Blocks 99.9+% of light in the critical 450-510nm range, the most disruptive wavelength of light at night. https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Blocking-Amber-Glasses-Sleep/dp/B01GSFTX08
ChiliSleep Cube Sleep System
Cools your body at night to help you stay asleep and wake up rested. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GT9MYRW
Munken Creator
The Munken Creator is for developing and experimenting with fonts. You can create visually animated messages with ‘unimagined possibilities’. https://colab.munken.com/munkencreator
Big Ass Message
Type in 48 characters or fewer, choose a style (such as Magic, Heart or Jprdy), and Big-Ass Message creates a simple full-screen web message with its own link that you can email.Type your big ass message here. https://bigassmessage.com/
Snapple Fact Generator
Juice brand Snapple ChatGPT-powered "fAIct Generator
HiCamp Camping Webste
Discover and book tent camping, caravan parks, cabins, and glamping—everywhere from national parks to blueberry farms.
Writing Tools
Roam Research
Roam is a cloud-based notes tool, designed for 'networked thought'. It's less of a note-taking app and more of a long haul research tool. And it's deeply impressive. Roam is built to both accommodate any structure and also accommodate changing structures. Its 'bi-directional links engine' and 'knowledge graph' mean you’re not tied to a folder hierarchy, but instead, you create connections between blocks and pages of information as you go.
Notion
Notion is extremely flexible, has templates galore built-in (not that I use these) and comes with fabulous typography. I can't recommend Notion enough.
Scrivener
A dedicated writing tool, Scrivener simply provides everything you need to start writing and keep writing. It's focused on that job and does it very well. For larger writing projects (like books) it's well worth a trial.
Hemingway App
The Hemingway is 'like a spellchecker, but for style.' It grades your writing for readability to indicate how understandable a piece of writing is.
Idea Tools
Freemind
A mind mapping app can tease out the network of ideas in you've got in your head. Free Mind is the best one I've found. Sadly it's not being developed further, but it's great as it is.
Milanote
Milanote lets you organise your ideas and projects into visual boards. It's like mind mapping, in that your network of ideas quickly becomes clear. Milanote is beautifully designed and functions wonderfully. I really like this app Although Notion has taken over all text, idea and project management duties for me.
Miro
Miro is an 'online collaborative whiteboard'. I quite like their 'Collaborative Mapping and Diagramming' tool, it's a good tool for mind mapping.
Thoughtback
Write yourself messages for the future. Thoughtback stores the messages you enter and then randomly sends them back.https://thoughtback.com/
Art, Graphics & Production Tools
Photoshop CC
I design graphics, produce photographs, and more on a daily basis with this app. It's incredibly good at what it does.
After Effects CC
I use After Effects for video and motion graphics work. After Effects works with compositions, that can be nested making it versatile and flexible for video production.
Animation Composer
This is a free plug-in for Adobe After Effects® that makes simple fast animation very easy. It's great for commercial video ads which is what I have been using this for. I teach this in my Facebook Video Ad Course. It's good.
HandBrake: Open Source Video Transcoder
Handbrake is the tool to use for compressing video for the web, or converting video from one format to another. Such a handy tool.
OWC RAID Drives
Other World Computing is an American computer hardware company and online store for Mac upgrades and accessories. They produce outstanding RAID drives. I run several OWC 20TB ThunderBay 4 RAIDs and they've never let me down.
Colour wheel - colour theory and calculator
Canva's Color Wheel makes colour combinations easy.
Google Webmaster Tools
All-day everyday Google tools. Once you wire these into your site you'll want to use them all of the time to monitor your growth.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics tracks and reports website traffic and site vistor interactions with your online content. You got to have this one.
PageSpeed Insights
Make your site fast, or be penalised by Google. The PageSpeed Insights tool reports on site performance for mobile and desktop.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a no-charge web service by Google for monitoring your site’s performance in search. While kinda confusing to set up, it's worth the effort.
Google Chrome
Chrome is a fast, simple and secure web browser. And with Chrome you can create multiple user 'profiles' that synchronise. This means you can flexibly access and manage multiple clients or projects very flexibly. Chrome also has great develop tools built in. Chrome is hard to beat for creative web people.
Google Trends
Google Trends is a free tool that provides access to actual search requests across Google Search.
Domains, Hosting and Website Tools
Launch your own website and run it like a pro.
NameCheckr
A useful tool to check domain & social username availability across multiple networks.
Namecheap
Namecheap is my go to ICANN-accredited domain name registrar. A great source for low cost domain names. I've used this service for years.
Dreamhost Web Hosting
With a domain name leased, you need to host it somewhere to 'serve' it up the world. Dreamhost offers web hosting, virtual private servers, dedicated hosting, shared hosting and cloud storage. I've been using Dreamhost for the past 15 years. It's great if you manage a lot of different domains.
Webflow
Webflow gives you fine control to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually, while writing clean, semantic code for you.
WordPress
You can install Wordpress on a hosted custom domain name or have WordPress.com host it for you. It's a free and open-source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. You install Wordpress then you theme it and away you go.
IFTTT
With Iffttt you create 'applets; connecting web services to make things your apps can't do on their own.
Freemind — The Great Art of Living
Freemind is a newsletter on living creatively, learning to trust our intuition and following our passions. It’s about taking action on the things that excite us and staying open to new experiences and possibilities. Subscribe here: https://freemind.substack.com/