- When simple is all you need: Laundry lists
- When quickly saving links: bookmarks (pinboard)
- When collecting bibliographic references: Mendeley
- When saving passwords: “free password manager YourOS”
- For notes right in front of me: Stickies for OSX, WIN,
- For simple but accessible notebooks: Notes, OneNote, Evernote, Scrivener
- When drafting is best done with a clean, white page: OmmWriter, IAWriter
- When writing for the web: Ulysses
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