The Evolution of Pencil by 53

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This week, in our second episode of our Techvember series, we're revisiting picks from digital episodes of the past. We started last week with email, so of course we have to follow up a bit on that. From there, though, we dig straight into recommendations around work.

We didn't take on these picks in this particular order, but this should be everything we dropped in the conversation this week!

• Email Followup
  • Susanne's recommendations on Gmail Filters
• Email Clients
  • Gmail
    • Gmail Search Operators
    • Yahoo! search operators
  • Spark Mail
  • Edison Mail
  • Airmail
  • Mailbird
  • Hey.com
  • Outlook by Microsoft
  • The Email Purge (Members Only — Patreon Member Posts Link)
  • Zoom Mail and Calendar
• Todo & Time
  • Fantastical & CardHop
  • Things 3
  • Omnifocus
  • Todoist
  • Rescue Time
  • Time Sink
  • Timing
  • Timery
  • Toggl
• Files
  • Hazel (macOS)
  • File Juggler (Windows)
• Notes
  • Obsidian
  • DEVONThink
  • Evernote
  • Notability
  • GoodNotes
  • Apple Pencil/iPad
  • Pencil by FiftyThree (Now available as Paper and Paste)
    • FiftyThree bought by WeTransfer in 2018
      • Paper
      • Paste
• Text Manipulation
  • TextExpander
  • PhraseExpander
  • Phrase Express
  • Breevy
  • aText
  • Typinator
  • Typeit4Me
• Launchers
  • Alfred
  • Raycast
  • Launchbar
  • Keypirinha
• Sharpening the ol' Saw 
  • Lumosity
  • Alto’s Adventure
• Pete's Professional Lineup
  • Logic Pro Studio
  • Final Cut
  • Audio Hijack
  • Loopback
  • Opal C1 4k Webcam
    • Backup: Logitech Brio Ultra HD
• Pete's Menubar Lineup
  • Fantastical with Next Appointment
  • Cardhop
  • Cleanshot X
  • Magnet window manager
  • Express VPN
  • Dropbox
  • SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba “Superior Sound Control for Mac
  • Bartender: To organize apps running in the background in the menubar
  • Alfred
  • Pastebot
  • Hazel
  • Rocket MacOS: slack-style emoji-picker across the whole system
  • Backblaze
  • CleanMyMac
  • SetApp
  • Script Menu
  • TextExpander
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Accessibility Shortcuts
  • Todoist
  • 1Password
  • Raycast
  • Stage Manager
  • Toggle
  • Parcel MacOS

• (00:00) - Welcome to The ADHD Podcast
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• (05:26) - Email Follow-up
• (22:22) - Tech at Work

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