Nick DisabatoInterview
Designer, tree killer (Distance, Cadence & Slang)
Adapted from Nick Disabato's interview on Uses This, published 6 April 2012. 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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So for coffee shops and coworking spaces, I use a 13" MacBook Air, the generation before the one that got Thunderbolt.
I also have an old iMac from around 2008 that I use as a server and "home base" of sorts.
I have used the same kind of pen, a black Uniball Vision Fine 0.7, since 1998.
(I want a Thunder Horn to blare at cars, but if we're being honest with ourselves, 115 dB isn't loud enough.) (And no, I don't want to ride fixed.
Communication
Productivity
And finally, I send nearly everything to Instapaper these days; it remains a no-hyperbole life-altering app, one that has caused me to read more than I ever have before.
Browser
Notes
iA Writer is invaluable for long-form writing with a Bluetooth keyboard.
Coding & Development
Design
Media
Instagram for sharing and discussing mundane photos.
Storage
Listary and Simplenote sync with nvALT on my two computers and iOS devices, and I use CloudApp to share most content, especially images of various interfaces.
Dropbox for syncing the kitchen sink.
Other
I use Reeder for RSS, but I don't follow more than a couple dozen feeds.
And for real-time, GPS-based tracking of exactly how broken the CTA is, there's Buster.
(I use Cloud2go on my iPhone to post to CloudApp.) I use RSS only on iOS devices, so haven't played with Reeder for Mac much.