Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. Watch this video to get a feel for how it works:
- Helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse.
- Uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links.
- Saves your zoom settings on a site-by-site basis.
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Has an in-page help dialog to remind you of your personalized shortcuts.
iThoughts is probably one of the best examples of interface design with the iPhone that I’ve ever seen. It REALLY works well. I’m able to slap down ideas (thoughts), and organize them on the fly. But it doesn’t stop there… this puppy reads and writes to Dropbox! So, that opens seamless connectivity with my Mac! But not just to other MindMap software, rather OPML exporting (i.e. Scrivener, outliners, etc.) as well as PDF. iThoughts sports a variety of file export formats, and it memorizes which ones (yes, simultaneous export of multiple file formats) you want to use for each document you create! So, when I save to Dropbox, it automatically exports all of the formats that I configured with that particular iThought document! A superb productivity tool. (Also available for the iPad)
TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki - including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it’s a single file, it’s very portable - you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.
I’m constantly fascinated with the new uses for Dropbox that I keep discovering. It’s changed my workflow in a dramatic way! Here’s just one example that I came across recently. This is a technique that allows you to keep your Filezilla directory (like of sites you FTP and SFTP to, username, passwords, remote and local paths, etc.) basically on the “cloud” and synced to all of your computers, even across OS platforms!
