Jess AllisonInterview
Organiser, producer, delivery manager (Paper Giant)
Adapted from Jess Allison's interview on Uses This, published 26 June 2018. 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 ↗
Is this you? Claim this kit →Hardware
My Fuji X-T10 was purposefully too advanced for my level of photography when I bought it, and has helped me lift my game.
Communication
G Suite for mail, calendar, docs and spreadsheets.
Slack for work chat, keeping up with old colleagues/friends, and the /remind function for timely to-dos
Productivity
Trello for project management, which extends to side projects, domestic, and life goals.
Browser
Notes
Notes app for personal to-dos (super lo-fi but it works well!)
Google Keep for the shared to-do list (films to watch, exhibitions to check out, photo excursion ideas, bars/restaurants to try...)
Security
Coding & Development
Sublime Text for the rare occasions I need to code.
Design
Media
iBooks to download samples of books I want to read, then eventually the books themselves
Storage
Dropbox for personal file storage, including cloud photo backups.
Other
Some days that means making a donation, and others it's a batch of choc chip cookies.
Part of me wants to try Android when this iPhone dies, but I'm married to Apple and the divorce would be messy.
SizeUp to quickly resize and position windows.
Awesome Screenshot to capture, crop and annotate screenshots
Window Resizer to quickly check sites in different resolutions
Momentum displays a photo and your daily focus each time you open a new tab