If you’re a writer, you should know how much is important to keep your brain organized and fresh: sometimes too much information can kill your skills, or just make you forget things. You must find a way to keep everything at the right place, sorted out and ready to be picked up when you need it. And if you’re a Mac user too you know you need a good app to do this.

I had the chance to test Thoughts, an upcoming app for Mac OS X developed by green & slimy, and I think it could change the way you organize your stuff, with style. Here’s an exclusive preview.

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So you’re a designer or a developer and you daily need to deal with code and text snippets: that’s very likely to happen. From CSS to HTML, from Javascript to Ruby, you just can’t remember every piece of code everyday: you need a good solution to store and easily retrieve them. Now, if you’re reading this blog I assume you have a Mac running Leopard / Snow Leopard.

Meet Snippets.

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Apple’s Mail is a great piece of software: sure, it has some minor flaws and compatibility issues, but overall there’s no mail client better than Mail.app on Mac OS X. I’ve tried many, like Postbox and Thunderbird, but I couldn’t just get the right feeling while using them. There are only two additional applications I use everyday for mail management: Mailplane for my Gmail accounts and Notify as quick menubar notifier.

Guess what, I think I’ve just discovered another great addition to Mail: Mail-Grab.

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Seems like I just can’t enough of desktop URLs shorteners: Andy wrote an Applescript for that (hem) and I reviewed Shrinker, a simple app that handles the whole process of shortening urls with various online services like bit.ly and tr.im. So, I was re-organising my bookmarks today (you know, minimalism) and I stumbled upon this neat application which was lying there in my toolbar: Squish.

And I was like: “Omg”.

Find out why.

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I recently wrote an article about how you can create a Lessn, Bit.ly, Is.gd, Tinyurl desktop shortener with Applescript, but if you don’t use lessn from Shaun Inman (which is the most important reason to use that script) or you just don’t want to mess with Applescript language, Shrinker is for you.

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This is awesome guys. If you ever wanted to run multiple instances of Firefox on your Mac, this is for you. Thanks to this lightweight utility you can easily create and run as many profiles / versions of Firefox you’d like. This means, each profile or version can have different addons, different settings.

Great!

You’re a freelancer, and time is precious for you. Time is everything. You have a lot of projects, you have to deal with clients, you have deadlines. You have to monitor how much time you spend on stuff to improve your workflow and get more money by doing more stuff, at the same quality, in less time.

Now, you also have an iPhone. Then, TimeTracker is for you.

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When I was new to the Mac, I wished there was a simple way to get the full size applications icons. They were beautiful and well designed, so I wanted to look at them at a full resolution. But as I said, I was new to the Mac, and I didn’t know many tricks to get the .icns file and convert it to a .png.

If you’re in the same situation now, IconGrabber is for you.

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“Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate.

Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, reinvindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.

If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copywriter, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.”

This is what you can read on Ommwriter official website. And that’s what Ommwriter really does.

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