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John Gruber

Writer and creator of Daring Fireball, a long-running blog about Apple and technology; co-created Markdown.

17 things

BusySyncSoftware BusyMac

loved

BusySync is a wonderful tool for sharing iCal calendars with my wife.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

MacBook ProHardware Apple

uses

My sole work computer is a 15-inch 2.5 GHz MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM and a 250 GB hard drive.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

MoleskineHardware

uses

I carry a paper notebook and pen with me everywhere. Currently: an unlined soft cover Moleskine and a 0.38mm Uni-ball Signo RT (black).

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

Uni-ball Signo RTHardware Uni-ball

uses

I carry a paper notebook and pen with me everywhere. Currently: an unlined soft cover Moleskine and a 0.38mm Uni-ball Signo RT (black).

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

YojimboSoftware Bare Bones Software

uses

Yojimbo for storing and tagging notes, bookmarks, passwords, and etc. – at this writing I have 4,675 items in my Yojimbo library.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

BBEditSoftware Bare Bones Software

uses

BBEdit for writing and coding. After several years of switching back and forth between Quicksilver and LaunchBar every few weeks, I settled on LaunchBar about a year ago.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

LaunchBarSoftware Objective Development

uses

After several years of switching back and forth between Quicksilver and LaunchBar every few weeks, I settled on LaunchBar about a year ago.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

NetNewsWireSoftware Brent Simmons

uses

NetNewsWire for feed reading. My main web browser is the nightly build of WebKit.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

SuperDuperSoftware

uses

Every night I use SuperDuper to clone my MacBook Pro's internal drive to one of the two aforementioned Lacie hard drives.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

MarsEditSoftware Red Sweater Software

uses

I use MarsEdit for posting articles and links to Daring Fireball. TypeIt4Me for system-wide text snippet expansion.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

TypeIt4MeSoftware

uses

TypeIt4Me for system-wide text snippet expansion. DragThing for a system-wide drag-and-drop shelf.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

AcornSoftware

uses

Acorn for simple image editing, Photoshop CS1 for non-simple image editing and design.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

Keyboard MaestroSoftware Stairways Software

uses

I use both FastScripts and Keyboard Maestro for executing scripts and macros I've created to automate frequent tasks.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

Ricoh GR-DHardware Ricoh

uses

Miscellaneous other hardware that might qualify as work-related, roughly in order of how much affection I have for it: a Ricoh GR-D point-and-shoot camera

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

InstapaperSoftware

uses

On my iPhone: Tweetie, Things, Instapaper, and NetNewsWire.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

MarkdownSoftware

usestheir own

Not the least of which is Markdown, which I use for everything I write.

His written "Uses This" interview, answering what hardware and software he works with.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

Moleskine NotebookOther Moleskine

uses

I carry a paper notebook and pen with me everywhere. Currently: an unlined soft cover Moleskine and a 0.38mm Uni-ball Signo RT (black).

An interview in "The Setup", the usesthis.com series that asks people what hardware and software they use to get their work done. Answers are in their own words.

2009-01-22·usesthis.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.