We use lots of software to run our nonprofit and our learning space. We use and recommend the following.
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SaaS
Here’s the thick stack of SaaS we use at Stimpunks.
- WordPress.com – Web publishing, team communication, a domain of our own
- Discord – Team communication
- Notion – Team communication, task management, and documentation
- 1Password – Team password management and secure document storage
- Google Workspace – Email, calendars, live document editing, file storage
- HubSpot – Customer relationship management, grant management, and sales and donation pipelining that connects with lots of platforms
- QuickBooks – Bookkeeping, payroll, budgeting, money management, invoicing, tax compliance
- Buffer – Social media management and analytics
- WPForms – Form builder that connects to WordPress, HubSpot, and Zapier
- Givebutter – Donation collection and management platform.
- WooCommerce – Online store that connects to WordPress, HubSpot, and Zapier
- Zapier – Automation platform that connects all this software together
- GitHub – Revision management and issue tracking
- Setapp – An Apple based software subscription service that gets you access to hundreds of professional apps for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS
- Raindrop.io – Team bookmarking, highlighting, annotation, and document management
Task Management
Things (macOS, iOS, iPadOS)
Toggl Plan (web, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android)
Calendar
Fantastical (macOS, iOS, iPadOS)
Spark (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Setapp)
Love your email again
The best email client for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Android | Spark
The best personal email client. Revolutionary email for teams.
Writing
Ulysses (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Setapp)
The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone
Powerful features and a pleasant, focused writing experience combined in one tool, made for people who love to write and write a lot — this is Ulysses.
Ulysses
Drafts (macOS, iOS, iPadOS)
Where Text Starts
Drafts opens to a new page with the keyboard ready so you can type immediately. Go hands-free with Dictation. Drafts lets you get things down before you forget without fiddling folders, naming, etc.
Drafts | Where Text Starts
SideNotes (macOS, Setapp)
SideNotes keeps your notes on the side of the screen. Appears when
you click a little bar or move your cursor to the screen side.Note down — get it out of your mind — move on.
SideNotes – Quick Notes on Screen Side – Apptorium
Mind Mapping
MindNode (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Setapp)
Keyboard Launcher
Alfred (macOS)
Alfred is an award-winning app for macOS which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.
Alfred – Productivity App for macOS
Keyboard Customizer
Karabiner Elements (macOS)
Karabiner Elements can be used to map your Caps Lock key to Cmd+Ctl+Opt+Shift. This serves as a Hyper key.
Text Replacement
Textexpander (macOS, iOS, iPadOS)
Text Manipulation
TextSoap (macOS, Setapp)
Powerful text transformations with just a click!
TextSoap – Automate Your Text Cleanup
Stop doing this stuff by hand
TextSniper (macOS, Setapp)
Extract Text From Anywhere
Instantly capture non-selectable text from YouTube videos, PDFs, images, online courses, screencasts, presentations, webpages, video tutorials, photos, etc. It’s so simple and easy as taking a screenshot with a built-in snipping tool for Mac.
TextSniper – Capture and extract any text from your Mac’s screen | images
Clipboard Manager
Paste (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Setapp)
A better way to copy and paste
Paste – Clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Paste stores everything you copy on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, so it’s always there whenever you need it.
Automation
Keyboard Maestro (macOS)
Automate applications or web sites, text or images, simple or complex, on command or scheduled. You can automate virtually anything.
Keyboard Maestro 10.1.1: Work Faster with Macros for macOS
Audio
Rogue Amoeba (macOS)
If you work with audio at all on macOS, get the tools from Rogue Amoeba.
Utilities
PopClip (macOS)
PopClip appears when you select text with your mouse on your Mac. Instantly copy & paste, and access actions like search, spelling, dictionary and many, many more.
PopClip for Mac
