Digital Tools Compendium

2023 14-inch MacBook Pro from 2023 equipped with an Apple M2 Max chip and 96 GB of memory. It's connected to a 27-inch Apple Studio Display with a resolution of 5120 x 2880.

I run an 5K iMac with an AMD Radeon Pro 5700 XT 16 GB128 GB Graphics Card, 128GB of 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM (I purchased the ram aftermarket from OWC) and a 4TB SSD internal drive. It's a workhorse and has never let me down. I simply replace it every 2-3 years.

Roam Research is a cloud-based notes tool, designed for 'networked thought'. It does this using what Roam calls its bi-directional linking. 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 is extremely flexible note-taking app with templates galore built-in (not that I use these). It comes with fabulous typography and allows easy organisation of your writing and notes. I can't recommend Notion enough. Having said that, Roam Research is the superior solution for managing all of your words and knowledge with Roam's networked thought and maximising creative output.

Photoshop is the media production app you do almost anything with. For designing and producing photographs and graphics there isn't anything better.

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.

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.

High grade, radio-ready, and royalty free audio samples. Native Instruments is a developer, manufacturer, and supplier of music software and hardware for music production, sound design, performance, and DJing.

Stream Labs is a streaming platform for Twitch, YouTube, & Facebook. The app is excellent, and while it's geared for gamers, it can be used for live streaming in general. https://streamlabs.com/

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. https://obsproject.com/ 

Unroll Me lets you see a list of all your subscription emails for easy reviewing, or to unsubscribe easily from the ones you don’t want. They also have what they call Rollup, which collates your subscriptions for you in a handy daily digest. https://unroll.me/

This handy timer does just what you need and no more. An effective way to retain motivation and focus.
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I use a Time Timer 60 Minute visual timer. It's a fantastic visual tool that sits on my desk and keeps me aware of the session I am in. Timers for me are about dropping constant busyness and distraction.
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A simple countdown timer.
http://e.ggtimer.com/

Photoshop is the world's primary image editing program. It's the primary app for creating, developing and editing images. Photoshop lets you edit photographs or groups of photographs, create digital graphics and composites from scratch, and design and produce app user interfaces. Photoshop is your swiss army knife for digital. You can create anything you need for television, print, desktops and mobile screens. It's always been at the heart of any digital studio.
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Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC is the desktop version of Lightroom, not to be confused for the cloud-based Lightroom CC version.
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Download images from any website, webpage via url or link
https://imagecyborg.com/

Download video from youtube, dailymotion, any website just paste any link/url with a video
https://videocyborg.com/

More handy web tools from this Apps Cyborg.
https://appscyborg.com/

Google Analytics tracks and reports website traffic and site vistor interactions with your online content. You got to have this one.
Google Anaytlics site

Make your site fast, or be penalised by Google. The PageSpeed Insights tool reports on site performance for mobile and desktop.
Page Speed site

Google Search Console is a no-charge web service by Google for monitoring your site’s performance in search. While kinda confusing to setup, it's worth the effort.
Google Search Console

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.
Download Chrome

Google Trends is a free tool that provides access to actual search requests across Google Search.
See what the world is searching.

A useful tool to check domain & social username availability across multiple networks.
https://www.namecheckr.com/

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.
Find your domain name

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.
Sign up for hosting

Webflow gives you fine control to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually, while writing clean, semantic code for you.
Start with a free Webflow account

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.
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With Iffttt you create 'applets; connecting web services to make things your apps can't do on their own.
https://ifttt.com

Slack is a runaway success in the world of online collaboration apps. Slack's focus is working and collaborating together online around 'channels' where you share and message one another through their app.
Slack is free to use

A collaborative whiteboarding platform.
Miro is free to use

DropBox is a cloud hard drive, letting you store, share, and securely access all your files. It's handy. You have a local folder which syncs with the cloud for access from your other devices.
free to use

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is for serious endeavors. It's an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. No fancy high-level interfaces here, just hardcore, robust scalable cloud systems.
https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

Google drive comes free with a Gmail account. You get you 15GB of storage and a suite or Office Apps as well.
free with gmail accounts

A cloud-based app for storing and syncing your notes online. It's good. But Notion is better!
evernote is free

Fiverr enables you to browse the selection of freelancers offering services, and to place orders in just one click. A service offered on Fiverr is called a Gig.
https://fiverr.com/

Genius Link enables sharing of monetised product links with your audience. Visit Genius Link 

Generate privacy policy documents outlining how you will protect the personal data and digital privacy of your site visitors.
generate a free privacy policy

Generate a Use our Cookie Consent form to comply with GDPR and ePrivacy Directive.
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