Diana KimballInterview
Writer, programmer (SoundCloud)
Adapted from Diana Kimball's interview on Uses This, published 10 June 2014. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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From time to time, I clean my laptop screen with iKlear Travel Singles.
Working at SoundCloud, I do a lot of listening; for that, I rely on these Sony earbuds.
At the office, we use Jabra USB speakerphones for group calls.
Leather And Canvas Mini Messenger
I carry everything in a black InCase messenger bag.
Communication
Productivity
Calculations happen in Soulver, a scratch pad that lets you show your work.
Notes
Meeting notes, lists, and idle thoughts go into Evernote.
Longer chunks of text usually start out in iA Writer.
Security
The Heartbleed fiasco motivated me to start using 1Password, which I've been pretty happy with.
Coding & Development
Media
Last year, I graduated from Harvard Business School and moved to Berlin to work at SoundCloud.
Acorn is my minimum viable image editor.
Other
SaneBox keeps my personal inbox manageable.
MailChimp is the engine behind an introspective letter I send out every now and then.
TransferWise has the lowest fees I've found for transferring money from my German bank account to American ones.
I set a lot of timers, so I've tried a lot of timer apps, and Timebar is the best by far.