Ellen ChisaInterview
Product manager (Kickstarter)
Adapted from Ellen Chisa's interview on Uses This, published 5 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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I use a 13" MacBook Air.
If I'm not, I want to do something else (go outside!) I have a Microsoft Surface RT in the kitchen that I use to pull up recipes while I'm cooking.
Right now I use an iPhone 5S.
I hate either needing to decide when to turn off the lights, or waking up with all the lights on at 2am, so now I use a Kindle Paperwhite.
I carry an entire pack of Pilot G2 pens in various colors so I can color code my notes.
I also have a Fitbit One, but I lost it for a few months and haven't gotten back into the swing of it.
Communication
Webtimer informs me that I spend most of my time online in Gmail - nearly two hours per day.
We use Campfire to keep up with each other during the day (my FuzzyClock says "join the campfire!" from 10-10:10 each morning, because I forget otherwise).
I also use TinyLetter to power the "Subscribe to my Blog" link, but I have yet to send a single issue.
Productivity
For Product Management work, I use Trello to keep track of everything.
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
Design
Sometimes I'll use Photoshop to modify something more detailed.
Media
Other
I work for Kickstarter where I'm a Product Manager, and work on the backer experience.
I also use f.lux, which helps prevent me from staying up all night.
I also use a Chrome extension called Web Timer.
Once I have a draft I'm happy with, I copy paste everything into Hemingway to edit.