Greg J. SmithInterview
Editor (HOLO), designer
Adapted from Greg J. Smith's interview on Uses This, published 20 June 2013. 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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My workspace in my studio is a long desk with a centrepiece 27" iMac and companion Samsung LCD flatscreen monitor.
Additionally, I am pretty much glued to my iPad mini which I do much of my emailing and writing on -- ideally as far away from the aforementioned desk as possible.
The only other piece of gear I use semi-regularly is my trusty Zoom H2, which I use for interviews.
Productivity
HOLO lives and breathes through Basecamp where our project manager Sherry Kennedy keeps us organized and on-time(ish) with deadlines.
While our drafts are usually shuttled around as commented Word documents, I tend to do my first several passes of editing in pen on a printout of the draft in question.
Notes
For writing/magazine management: I bang out most of my drafts in iA Writer and, aside from the occasional iCloud sync issues, I'm quite fond of it.
Coding & Development
On my desktop, I'm really fond of Panic's Coda 2, which I use for most of my web development.
Design
Lately I've been spending a lot of time with Mapbox's TileMill, which -- as the tagline promises -- is a toolkit for crafting "fast and beautiful maps".
Storage
Other
For editing, I'm a big fan of listening to text as if it were spoken, so I'll often blast tricky passages through the default OS X text-to-speech tool to assess punctuation and flow.
In terms of my more basic task-to-task workflow, I recently started using Clear for to-do item management.