Useful and/or interesting links for research/productivity/fun.
DeckDeckGo
Interactive, web-based presentations. h/t
Browse AI
Rectangle
Window management based on Spectacle.
Camo
Use your phone as a webcam. h/t
Beeper
A single app to unite all your messaging apps. h/t
ggpomological
ggplot2 theme based upon the USDA’s pomological watercolor collection.
disk.frame
R package that allows you to treat on-disk data as though it were in-memory (i.e., use data.table or tidyverse). Bonus blog from Bruno Rodrigues.
ASCII Decorator
Sublime plugin for ASCII Decorations.
Machine learning flashcards
Flashcards for ML concepts.
lazyrmd
xaringanExtra
Extra skills for the R package xaringan.
xaringanthemer
More themes for xaringan.
voice dream apps
Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer
Data platform with accurate, up-to-date, high-resolution geospatial data depicting the extent freshwater ecosystems change over time.
Synergy
Control multiple computers with a single keyboard/mouse.
Book: Dive into Deep Learning Online deep learning book.
Apache Arrow for R
R package for Apache Arrow in-memory platform. h/t
Wizard Zines Collection
Programming zines. h/t
Butterick’s Practical Typography
Online book with practical advice on typography.
tweek
Online weekly planner. h/t
Mail Merge for Thunderbird
A mail merge extension for Thunderbird.
Compiled ESS point datasets
Compendium of compiled Earth System Science point data sets.
Stack
Browser built for multi-tasking. h/t
codetime
Text-editor plugin for coding metrics and timing. h/t
descript
Record and edit audio as a transcript. h/t
Hypothesis
Annotate the web—and share it. h/t
Online conference options
There’s more for things bigger than Zoom:
Old Book Illustrations
A compendium of illustrations from “old books”.
radian
An alternative console for R with multiline editing and rich syntax highlight. h/t
learnr
R package to create Markdown-based, interactive tutorials.
Convertio
File conversion across 300+ formats.
Arcane Office
In-cloud, private/secure/de-centralized, free office suite.
Crosstalk
Cross-widget interactions in R.
panelView
R package for visualizing treatment, missing-ness, and outcomes in panel data.
speaking.io
Public-speaking tips. h/t
Standard ebooks
Curated, high-quality, free ebooks.
cally
Find common dates/locations for group events. h/t
Gantt.io
Easy, pretty, online Gantt charts. h/t
devhints
A collection of cheatseets, e.g., bash, regex and vim.
jQuery cheatsheet
Cheatseet for jQuery.
blastula
Send beautiful HTML emails from R.
Really Good Emails
Currated collection of beautiful, well-crafted emails. h/t
tresorit
Secure cloud storage. h/t
In-Browser Markdown Editors
- HackMD - StackEdit - Madoko
Noted
Integrated audio-recording and note-taking app.
Twizzy
Simple, clean flowchart tool. h/t
Twizzy
Twitter without the timeline (just message and tweet). h/t
rticle
LaTeX journal article templates for R Markdown.
Makepad
(Online) project management for single users—no team features.
Firefox Send
Send files up to 2.5GB (1GB without signing in). h/t
TAYL
Turn text articles into podcasts. h/t
Workbench
Code-free data sharing and analysis platform.
Marvin
“Ultimate” productivity tool. h/t
Buttondown
Simple, online, markdown-based newsletter app.
Background Music
Audio utility to automatically pause music and/or mute specific applications.
drake
R package for workflow management of data-driven tasks.
fontawesome package
LaTeX package to access Font Awesome icons.
NES.css
NES-style CSS Framework.
rayshader
R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps of elevation matrices. h/t
iotools
R package for streaming and data parsing.
pqR
A “pretty quick” version of R. h/t
cloudyr
A collection of R packages that connect R to cloud resources.
fst
Fast and easy serialization of data frames in R (and Julia).
RStudio Server Amazon Machine Images
Louis Aslett provides a tremendous public service in hosting and updating (and providing basic instructions for) RStudio/R machine images for Amazon.
Spaceship Prompt
Minimalistic and flexible Zsh prompt.
trminal
Quickly opens a Mac Terminal (or iTerm 2) window for the current Finder directory. Akin to Go2Shell but with more frequent/recent updates.
ColorBox
Custom color-scale builder. h/t
latex2exp
R package that converts LaTeX expressions to (annoying) plotmath.
Superhuman
Very fast email client (based on what they say). h/t
What If
Tool for inspecting machine-learning models.
GeoDa
Free, open-source geospatial software.
iTerm2 borderless
A nice patch for iTerm2 that creates a more minimal aesthetic for iTerm2.
kitty
GPU-based terminal emulator.
Rbox
R package to run R in Atom.
RMarkdown presentation by Yihui Xie
A presentation by Yihui Xie on bookdown, blogdown, and xaringan. There are many more presentations available by Yihui Xie.
hey-pane
Atom extension for enlarging the active panel (includes keyboard shortcut).
typing.io
Typing practice for many programming languages.
DeclareDesign
Declaring and analyzing research designs in the social sciences. h/t
R for Data Science
Online book about R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Haldey Wickham.
Biblatex Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for Biblatex.
Writing tools for Atom
linter-write-good lints English prose. Linter Just Say No helps you avoid using hedge words.
Bib-it
Compendium of BibTeX entry and field types.
Culture Concorde
Simple menu-bar curated-music player. h/t
Dotgrid
“Minimal vector drawing tool”. h/t
UberConference
Great, feature-rich meeting platform.
Figure it Out
Pretty Chrome extension (and website) to figure out time zones.
grasshopper
Free app that teaches coding.
txt.fyi
“This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web.” h/t
Gradescope
Grading web service with really nice grading/rubric setup.
ScreenFocus
Auto-dim (and auto-un-dim) when working with multiple monitors. h/t
Clocker
OSX app to plan and organize through timezones.
imdone
Atom package that provides a card- and list-based user interface for TODOs in your scripts.
themer
Generates color themes given a set of colors.
binder
Turns a GitHub repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. h/t
Gnotes
Simple markdown to Evernote. Somewhat like Marxico.
gsynth
R package for generalized synthetic control methods.
SuperLearner
R package for a prediction-model ensembling method.
Beautiful AI
AI-powered presentations.
Academic Sequitur
A website that tracks over 90 major economics and finance journals.
Teletype for Atom
An Atom package to collaborate in real time.
AppleHealthAnalysis
An R package to import and analyze data from the iOS Apple Health app.
regex-railroad-diagram package
A regular expression railroad diagram view for regular expression under cursor in Atom.
Things 3
Personal task manager. I’m switching from OmniFocus.
Workflow
Automation tool for iOS.
hiri
Clean, powerful email/calendar/task/contact app.
XML Sitemaps
Simple tool for creating XML sitemaps (along with other formats).
Viridis in QGIS
Viridis color palettes (ramps) for QGIS.
LittleSnitch
View and manage internet connections from your Mac. (Also: MicroSnitch)
SwiftText
Quick-access scratchpad for OSX.
ggthemr
Themes and palettes for ggplot2.
Typely
Free online proofreading.
Resistbot
A bot who finds and contacts your Congressional representatives.
Text Mining with R
An introduction to (tidy) text mining in R.
sf
Stellar package for spatial data analysis in R. More sf resources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
Cheat sheets for regular expressions
The folks at RStudio provides cheat sheets for regular expressions and stringr (and many other cheat sheets).
Author
App to instantly create and publish documents to the web.
ggforce
A package for R that aims to extend ggplot2 for explorative data visualization.
ggplot2 extensions
A helpful website that tracks extensions to R’s ggplot2 package.
3Blue1Brown
A YouTube channel that animates math.
GitFinder
A fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration.
Drop
Beautiful color picker with Touch Bar support.
Index
Save and search your “stuff”.
Qbserve
Automatically tracks both productivity and work hours. h/t
TripMode
Blocks apps from accessing the internet. h/t
Tyke
Scratch paper that lives in your menubar. h/t
Pod
A “connected” calendar for iOS. h/t
Tabagotchi
Fun browser extension that incentives fewer tabs.
Crime Data
The FBI has a great new crime data explorer. The Open Data Census project has a handy(-ish) summary of city-level crime datasets.
Plain Email
Four-action email-processing app.
Rambox
Cross-platform messaging and emailing app.
ScienceFair
Search, collect, read and analyze scientific papers.
earth
A (beautiful) global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions.
Free, open-source machine learning, statistics, and data-mining resources
A curated list of resources from Joseph Misiti.
Template for R Markdown academic manuscript
Steven Miller offers a guide and template for academic manuscripts in R Markdown.
Regular expressions in R
stringr’s very helpful primer on regular expressions in R.
Gifmock
Creates high-quality GIFs.
twist
A calmer Slack alternative.
Hemingway
App that improves your writing.
rmapshaper
R package for “topologically-aware multi-polygon simplification” (for shapefiles). Related: mapshaper.org
Manually re-index OSX Spotlight
A helpful guide. Hint: It’s really just sudo mdutil -E /.
Colibri
A browser without tabs.
everydayCheck
A simple, pretty habit tracker. h/t
Orai
AI-powered feedback for your speeches. h/t
Velox
Fast raster manipulation in R.
Tabulizer
Extract tables from PDFs using R.
10 Minute Mail
Disposable email service.
Windscribe
VPN with a generous free allowance.
SplitShow
Tool for dual-head presentations on OSX.
Two apps from Matthew Palmer:
Rocket
Mind-blowing (Slack-style) emoji on your Mac.
Vanilla
Hides menu bar icons on your Mac. h/t
Material Colors
A convenient website for accessing the colors of the material design palette.
Astro
Email app(s) powered by AI. h/t
sip
Collects, organizes, and shares colors (and palettes). h/t
rJava error
A very helpful guide to fixing errors with rJava on OSX.
TextExpander
Expands custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text and pictures.
kobra
Simple, real-time, code collaboration.
leaflet
Access Leaflet’s JavaScript library inside of R.
pacman
An R package for easy package management in R—loading, unloading, etc.
Popular economics papers
Oxford University Press provides a list of the most popular economics papers from The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) and The Review of Economics Studies (REStud).
Unpaywall
Read paywalled research papers for free.
VPN
In addition to having great names, CyberGhost and TunnelBear provide VPN services. Both services offer free options.
LaTeX, meet ggplot2
Port images out out of R and into LaTeX. h/t
Comparing text files
Diffchecker and Text Compare! offer in-browser comparisons between text documents. In Atom, split-diff and compare-files offer between-document comparisons.
asciicinema
asciinema (formerly ascii.io) is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.
Markdown online
Dillinger, StackEdit, and Markdown Live Preview offer three online Markdown editors/renderers. remark, Marp, swipe, and Deckset offer options for rendering Markdown into presentation slides (also, Rmarkdown with ioslides).
FocusList
A daily planner and focus app based on Pomodoro. h/t
Giphy Capture
Create GIFs on your Mac. Other options: Gifox, Recordit, and Gyazo.
pander
An R Pandoc writer—for rendering R objects into Pandoc’s markdown.
Typora
A live and minimal Markdown editor.
GGally
Extends R’s ggplot2 with many helpful graphical functions.
LightTable
Open-source text editor with in-line code evaluation.
Redkix
Reat-time email app.
Typeform
Clean, online forms.
Codr
A lightweight, collaborative pastebin (whiteboard) for code.
SageMathCloud
Collaboratively use open source math software/terminals in your browser.
SubEthaEdit (4)
Collaborative text editing.
Mac Setup
Helpful guide for setting up a Mac for most popular languages and programming/scripting tools.
Studies
Flash cards for iOS and OSX.
Noizio
White-noise generating app for OSX.
WeTransfer
Sends files.
Due
Fast to-do list app with reminders.
Exist
Track everything you do in one place.
Tomatimer
A loose and straightforward pomodoro timer for Atom.
Markdown Quick Look Plugin
Preview Markdown files in OSX Finder (through the Preview app). From the makers of the iPad Markdown text editor InkMark.
Read the Docs
Create, host, and browse documentation.
Cloudinary
Image and video management in the cloud.
Spark
A fast, personalizable email client.
PostImage
Free image hosting and upload.
Small Victories
Takes files in a Dropbox folder and turns them into a website.
TinyLetter
A free personal newsletter service.
Pandas Cheat Sheet
A cheat sheet for data science with Python’s Pandas.
MapInSeconds.com
Quickly turns spreadsheets into maps. h/t
R Markdown Websites
A tutorial on building a website using R Markdown (like this one). h/t The rmdformats package offers additional themes (formats). More on R Markdown here. The bookdown package extends R Markdown to publishing books. The blogdown package extends R Markdown to publishing blogs (or general websites) using Hugo. The pkgdown package extends R Markdown to creating static html documentation.
Divvy
Provides customized window management.
BetterTouchTool
Configure gestures for OSX.
Selector Gadget
Point-and-click CSS selectors. Helpful when used in conjunction with R’s rvest package.
Vivaldi
A highly customizable browser.
GitKraken
A GUI Git client, for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Calendly
Simple, beautiful scheduling.
Bear
A flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.
OLS Notes
Some nice notes on ordinary least squares from Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford.
Shodan
Search engine for internet of things (and other things).
Pomodoro Time and Tadam
Pomodoro Time and Tadam are simple Pomodoro timers.
Thenmap
A repository of historical borders.
Geocodio
(Reasonably) accurate, affordable, and unrestricted online geocoding (forward/reverse and batch/API). Connect with R through rgeocodio.
Canary Mail
A “simple, smart, swift” email client for Mac with many nice features.
Github Pages and Jekyll tutorial
From UC Berkeley’s The Hacker Within, a nice tutorial on Github Pages and Jekyll.
pdftools
A fast and portable PDF extractor for R (and others).
Producteev
Team-oriented productivity software.
Ghost Browser
A browser that lets you isolate cookie jars into color coded tabs so you can run multiple sessions with multiple accounts on the same web site.
Hocus Focus
Automatically hide inactive windows.
Noisli
In-browser white-noise generator with productivity and relax settings.
Standard Resume
One resume that works everywhere.
Univariate Distribution Relationships
Interactive chart for relationships between univariate distributions.
Opentest
Seamless screen, mic and camera recording for Chrome.
Habitica
Improve your habits by playing a game.
Linus screen
Screen effectively allows signing on and off from interactive sessions on a server/Linux shell.
QuickLookR
OSX-based QuickLook plugin for R’s save() & saveRDS() files. h/t
Multi-File LaTeX projects
ShareLaTeX’s guide to building LaTeX documents from multiple files.
SMS Email
Combine R’s sendmailR with this list of SMS email addresses to send text messages from R.
Stargazer Cheatsheet
A cheatsheet for R’s stargazer package.
YakYak
Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts.
Script
Run scripts in Atom based on file name, a selection of code, or by line number.
Term2
Open Terminal tabs in Atom. In the past, I’ve also used Terminal Plus.
SizeUp
Keyboard-centric window management. h/t
munsell
Package in R for for Munsell’s color theme.
ggalt
Extra coordinate systems, geoms, statistical transformations, and scales for R’s ggplot2 package.
ggthemes
Some extra geoms, scales, and themes for R’s ggplot package package.
Boxy
A Gmail Inbox client for Mac.
SurfEasy
Data protection.
Color Oracle
A color blindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux.
OSX option-key bindings
A helpful superuser post about removing the character bindings for the option (alt) key in OSX.
extrafont
R package to use other (any?) fonts in R. h/t
R guides
Computerworld offers a beginner’s guide to R, as well as an advanced beginner’s guide to R. h/t
Grammerly
In-browswer and in-app grammar and spelling checker.
Markdown Here
In-browser Markdown formatting for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Thunderbird.
SAS Studio
Web application for SAS that you access through your web browser.
ShiftIt
Manages and position windows in OSX.
BarTender (2)
Organizes your menu bar apps.
MailButler
Your personal assistant for Apple Mail. h/t
Xi Editor
A modern editor with a backend written in Rust. h/t
conda and OSX
Run PATH=$PATH:$HOME/anaconda/bin if OSX cannot find the path to conda.
Rodeo
A data science IDE for Python.
Micro
Terminal-based text editor. h/t
Min
A minimal web browser. h/t
tep
Tamagotchi-based motivating fitness tracker.
CodeFights
Practice coding in real-time races against others.
Font Awesome
The iconic font and CSS toolkit.
Karabiner
A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.
Timer
A simple timer app for OSX. h/t
ProtonMail
Secure email based in Switzerland.
Lightning
Provides API-based access to reproducible web visualizations.
DiagrammeR
Package to create graph diagrams and flowcharts using R.
R Markdown Websites
Basics from the R Markdown website. Blog on blogs using Jekyll and R Markdown. Example website
Pandas Resources
UC Berkeley’s The Hacker Within notes on Python Pandas.
JuliaDT
An Eclipsed-based IDE for Julia.
Rough Draft
A writing app that offers the natural rough reminders of paper.
regular expressions 101
Live testing and help for regular expressions.
Castle Adventure
Online emulator for 1984’s DOS game Castle Adventure.
LaTeX Dendrogram
A simple dendrogram example for LaTeX.
NYT Weather Charts
The New York Times’s classic weather charts for more than 3000 cities.
pmax/pmin in R
Take max. and min. with vector inputs in R.
Backpropogation Example
A step-by-step example of backpropogation.
Billion Dollar Prices Project
MIT’s project to track prices via online retailers.
markdown-toc
Generate a table of contents for a Markdown file in Atom.
tablr
Edit CSVs using a table editor in Atom.
Julia Resources
A guid to help you learn Julia in Y minutes. Slides on Julia for R programmers.
Learn X in Y minutes
Guides for learning things quickly.
.gitignore
StackOverflow explanation on how to “[i]gnore files that have already been committed to a Git repository.”
Pandoc
A universal document converter.
wmail
OSX App for Google Inbox and Gmail.
Python Resources
Jean Mark Gawron’s book Python for Social Sciences; O’Reilly’s book on how to think like a computer scientist, Think Python; a list of resources from Python at Berkeley; slides teaching Python for R Users.
Fira Code
Monospaced font with programming ligatures.
White Noise & Co.
Frequency shaped colored noise generator.
Flowstate
A writing app with strong incentives to keep moving.
Katex
A fast math typesetting library for the web.
Butterfly
A browser-based terminal.
GitBook
A modern publishing toolchain.
Online LaTeX Editors
Papeeria, ShareLaTeX, Overleaf, and Authorea each offer online LaTeX editing, compiling, and collaboration.
uiGradients
Simple and attractive color gradients.
.Last.value.
.Last.value displays the last value at the command line in R.
Copied
Clipboard manager for OSX and iOS.
Deckset
Slides from Markdown files.
LaTeX Boilerplates
Plain-text document production system.
Caret
A simple Markdown editor and previewer h/t.
Jango
Browser-based streaming radio—essentially Pandora but with only one advertisement each day.
CleanMyMac
Clean up files on a Mac.
pryr
Another package from Hadley Wickham; this one helps to pry back R’s layers. I’m using it for mem_used() and object_size().
data.table and .SD
.SD allows you easily choose many columns from a data.table in R. h/t (plus a more transparent demo)
CodinGame
Learn/practice coding while playing games.
LaunchBar (6)
LaunchBar adds actions to OSX’s keyboard commands.
R style
More from Hadley Wickham: his R style guide from his book Advanced R.
bigvis
Hadley Wickham strikes again: bigvis helps visualize large (big) data sets.
Freeze
OSX app to access Amazon Glacier archives. h/t
Spectacle
Move and resize windows for OSX.
xombrero
Minimalist, high-security browser. h/t
Forecast.io API
JSON API for Dark Sky/Forecast.io weather forecasts and history.
OpenStreetMap tools
Mapzen metro extracts offer weekly OpenStreetMap extracts for major metro areas. overpass turbo allows you to query the OSM API.
JuliaBox
Run Julia from the browser.
Mapzen
An open-source mapping lab.
Sublime Text 3 in terminal (OSX)
A stackoverflow thread on how to create a symbolic link for Sublime Text in the OSX terminal.
knitr::kable
kable is a function in R’s knittr package that creates formatted tables (Markdown, LaTeX, etc.) from data.frames within R. Seems like it would pair perfectly with broom’s tidy function.
Github Pages + Jekyll = Blog
A streamlined tutorial on setting up a blog with Github Pages with Jekyll.
Prose
A clean editor for Github.
csvkit
A handy suite of .csv operations for the terminal. Includes Excel-to-CSV conversion. h/t
gimli
Convert markup files to pdf files.
Photo Gallery Options
thumbsup builds static HTML galleries for local photos and videos. Expose generates static sites for photoessays.
import.io
Turns websites into data.
Sublime Text and File Browsing
FileBrowser creates an extra panel for keyboard browsing files in Sublime Text; File Navigator allows basic navigation and file management through a Sublime terminal.
Speedfari
Browser for iOS that blocks unnecessary parts of websites. h/t
OSX Terminal Themes
A set of terminal themes for OSX.
StackEdit
A really nice in-browser Markdown editor that allows for themes, hotkeys, simultaneous collaboration, and publishing straight to blogs.
Scotch on Jekyll
A nice tutorial on Jekyll (publishing blogs/websites).
oh my zsh
Framework for managing ZSH configuration.
Go2Shell
Creates a shortcut in OSX’s Finder to open a Terminal window.
iTerm2
An alternative terminal for OSX.
regexr.com
Live testing of regular expressions.
Colorout
Color your R output in the terminal.
Git Large File Storage
An open source Git extension for versioning large files.
R and AWS
Tutorials for running R and RStudio with Amazon’s web services.
Personal R Packages
A nice guide to building your own R package.
Git Guide
A pretty simple guide to Git.
Syncer
A fast file/disk syncer.
Classroom Resources
Some resources from CodeAcademy and GitHub for the classroom.
Dictater
Replacement for built-in Speech services.
Git Large File Store
Open-source versioning for large files.
Git Tutorials
“Git in five minutes” (I think it took me a bit longer). And a very clear description of how to add an existing project to GitHub using Git in the command line.
Jaro Mail
Private, terminal-based email. h/t
Squire
An HTML5 rich text editor that works across browsers and generations.
Etherpad
Online, collaborative text editing.
Madoko
A fast Markdown processor that makes presentations, documents, html, etc. h/t
VoiceCode
Softward that promises to allow you to code via spoke word.
Learning to git
Illustrated examples and a (supposedly) 15-minute game.
Spyfall
A popular party game; an independent online version; an English rulebook.
Prism
Code highlighting via JavaScript. Apparently, Prism is a spin-off of dabblet.
Email from R
The mail package in R allows you to send an email(see the sendmail function)—very helpful for letting you know when a task finishes running.
Evernote in Sublime Text
Submit and edit notes in Evernote from Sublime Text (also allows for Markdown).
Pygments
Code highlighting for many applications.
Arranger
Arranges application windows (or Finder windows) for OSX.
Coda
A text editor targeting web applications.
Codeanywhere
A code editor accessible in your browser or on mobile devices. Features include ssh and multiple cursors.
Symbolset
Sells sets of icons.
Noun Project
An app with a compendium of icons. h/t to John Loeser
Thimble
An online code editor from Mozilla (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript plus tutorials).
Next
A simple expense-tracking app.
Reading Lists
Bill Easterly’s development economics reading list. h/t Sol Hsiang’s sustainable development reading list. And Sol’s syllabus/reading list for his summer workshop in the economics of climate change.
JavaScript in R
The R package V8 allows you to access JavaScript functions from R. An example with parsing human names.
Languages for GFM
A handy list of all the languages known to GitHub Flavored Markdown.
Drought Reports
EcoWest created a great interactive map for US drought severity. h/t
Hosting Websites with Dropbox
Pancake.io offers help in hosting a website via Dropbox (or git). So does DropPages.
Random Google Maps
Shaun Utter wrote some code to grab a random Google Map and colors it. Pretty.
Scraping with R (+ Rasters)
Zev Ross shows how to scrape using the R package rvest. Zev also has two nice tutorials on working with rasters in R (1 and 2).
Tyme
A time-management app with a timer and a project management system.
DaisyDisk
Beautiful OSX app for analyzing memory allocation on your hard drive (and recovering space).
Email Clients for OSX
I just came across Kiwi—a gmail-as-desktop-client app for Mac. I’m currently alternating between Inbox in-browser and Mailbox. I previously used Airmail and played with Unibox.
Hours
Another way to track your time. Only for iOS at the moment.
Itsycal
A nice, little calendar for the OSX menu bar—also keyboard friendly. h/t
R Packages for Open Science
A set of R packages for open science.
Search R’s Documentation
An online search engine for R’s documentation.
Time Sink
Time everything you do on your computer. Could be scary.
Alternote
A pretty note-taking app for Evernote (OSX).
Ello
An alternative social network site. (Say the name aloud and think “British.”)
Motion in Social
Pretty cool research on motion… and perhaps and even cooler portrayal.
MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide
Guide for setting up metadata for Markdown. A lot of other stuff, too.
NUMI
A simple, beautiful, and versatile calculator for OSX. h/t
Tufte in R and CSS
People applying Tufte’s principles in R and in CSS.
Cleaner Web Viewing
Evernote Clearly cleans up web pages—particularly useful for blogs with lots of ads. Wikiwand cleans up Wikipedia pages automatically.
Feedly
Magazine-style (news reader)[https://feedly.com].
Flashearth
View Earth using many satellite options. A great time sink. Related: Earth View from Google Chrome extension.
Marked 2
Very simple Markdown (or plain text) viewer. Works with many editors.
Mendeley
Reference manager and PDF organizer.
pyFuture?
galvanize offers a list of tools for Python and data.
Skitch
Skitch takes nice screen shots.
Sublime Text
My favorite second-favorite text editor (supports everything). Multiple cursors make life easier. I’ve since moved to Atom.
Transmit
Terrific SFTP-FTP-S3 client for OSX.
To-Do Lists
I now use Todoist Swipes OmniFocus Things (3). In the past, I played with Wunderlist and Swipes and Todoist and TeuxDeux and Any.Do.
Toggl
Track your time.