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WinterFest 2023: The Winter Festival Of Artisanal Software [Sponsor]

WinterFest 2023: The Festival of Artisanal Software is back with a fantastic collection of carefully crafted software for writing, research, thinking, and more at tremendous prices.

Innovative software often comes from small teams, fired with imagination and a vision of a better way to work. There are no bundles, games, or prices that are too good to be true: just fresh software with fantastic support at great, sustainable prices.

Software artisans from around the globe have come together for this time-limited event to bring you innovative systems to assist you with everyday knowledge work. This incredible catalog of productivity software includes:

  • Bookends: The reference manager you’ve been looking for 
  • DEVONagent Pro: Your smart research assistant 
  • DEVONthink: Your powerful information and knowledge manager 
  • Easy Data Transform: Merge, clean, and reformat data without coding 
  • EagleFiler: Capture and organize files, emails and web pages
  • Hookmark: Supplies the missing links 
  • HoudahSpot: Powerful file search 
  • HyperPlan: Flexible visual planner 
  • ImageFramer Pro: Add creative borders and frames to photos 
  • Mellel: A real word processor
  • Nisus Writer Pro: The powerful Mac word processor
  • Panorama X: Collect, organize, and understand your data
  • Photos Workbench: Organize, rate, & compare your photos
  • Scapple: Quickly capture and connect ideas 
  • Scrivener: Your complete writing studio 
  • SpamSieve: powerful e-mail spam filtering
  • Tinderbox: Visualize and organize your notes, plans, and ideas 
  • Trickster: Your recently used files at your fingertips

These sorts of amazing deals don’t come around often, so act today to start 2024 off with the best software available from this terrific group of developers.

Visit the WinterFest website to learn more and for links to these amazing deals, or use the coupon code Winterfest2023 at checkout.

Our thanks to Winterfest for sponsoring MacStories this week.

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