VM (Vicky) BrasseurInterview
Corporate strategist, open source expert
Adapted from VM (Vicky) Brasseur's interview on Uses This, published 2 October 2020. 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 chair is a Haworth Very Office Chair that I got a heckuva deal on from a local used office furniture store.
Apple Watch Series 4+ 4 others
The mobile device that gets the most daily use is my Apple Watch 4, mostly for checking weather, tracking activity, and seeing the time in other regions.
Communication
Productivity
Zotero is priceless for storing and cataloguing all of the research papers I read.
A lot of my industry news comes from there, but increasingly more of it is via my RSS feeds in Newsblur.
Alfred helps me find and launch stuff on my Mac.
Browser
Safari is my browser, thanks to its speed and impressively low power and memory use.
Notes
To be honest, if Apple Notes had good meta-tagging and web clipping then I'd rather use it instead.
Security
1Password creates my passwords and ensures they're secure.
TunnelBear keeps the snoops out of my network when I'm on the road.
Coding & Development
Design
Media
While iCloud is my primary photo backup, Flickr is the photo service I prefer for sharing.
Storage
Other
Color Oracle helps me ensure my presentations will work for people with different visual abilities.
Every Time Zone ensures I know what time it is elsewhere before I accidentally schedule colleagues for meetings at 4AM in their location.