Tanner McSwainInterview
Owner, Uncharted Books
Adapted from Tanner McSwain's interview on Uses This, published 13 August 2019. 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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At Uncharted, we have a 2014 Mac Mini with used peripherals I bought on the cheap at the wonderful FreeGeek dungeon in Logan Square.
Prior to this upgrade last month, we were using the 2008 iMac I got as a college graduation present.
In general, I just use Uniball Roller pens.
Communication
I just use G Suite for spreadsheets and stuff.
Notes
It has a split screen mode so I can have my working document and reference docs open simultaneously, a black-screen composition mode, and a great organizational system that reminds me of a superior Evernote.
Coding & Development
For editing and writing, I use Scrivener, my all-time favorite word processor.
Other
We have a custom website from Bibliopolis, which specializes in websites for rare book dealers and can auto-populate our inventory to the different online marketplaces we list on.
I use BookHound 8 to catalog our rare books.
I have recently started using Tula software to book time slots for our Adventurers Club space.
You Need a Budget is a surprisingly great budgeting system and software.
As I mentioned before, I use Square for both credit card processing and point of sale hardware.