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Trying not to pick fan favorites/well knowns -

SecureCRT - SSH and more client (win)

Quicksilver - OSX launcher

Pathfinder - OSX finder replacement

Notepad++ - Win text editor

Gawor's LDAP Browser - still my favorite (Java)

Cog - OSX Music player (ala winamp)

GCalTookit - Doing Google Calendar Magic (Java)

Plex + ShowRSS + Catch - Netflix but better

Synology - Their NAS platform is pretty amazing. You can do just about anything with it.

Workflowy - Bulleted List Magic (web)

Xee - Simple and effective image browser (osx)

YNAB Classic - If you don't budget, you should. If you do, you should check out YNAB!

NFSManager - OSX NFS Manager

All of these apps do what they do well and I've never had any issues with them.

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I love that you suggested YNAB here but I have one significant problem with it that doesn't have a consistently good workaround.

Reimbursements.

When I m out with friends and the restaurant doesn't split the bill I'll often cover it then get paid back with cash or PayPal. YNAB doesn't seem to handle this very well.

Then wirh longer term reimbursements it gets worse. Either you forget that you are owed or you float the debt.

I still recommend YNAB. but that specific problem means it's not on my "reliable" list.

Split the transaction in YNAB, send your part to the correct category "Dining", and itemize owed amounts per person into another category "Loaned Money". It's easy to track if "Loaned Money" has a positive balance, and you don't screw up the budget for your Dining category.

YNAB looks very close to the Dave Ramsey approach to finances.

I'm also using Path Finder because I prefer it's visual appearance much over Finder and Total Commander. However, it does have it's fair share of issues so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone anymore at this point. It is often giving me spinning ball cursor (lack of proper threading?), and there's this several year old bug that comes and goes, where the Places list disappears, which resurfaced for me just last week, and still haunts me :-/

I second Plex. The moment I installed PMS on my server is the moment I canceled my Netflix subscription. Only ever so often I find myself hating the Chromecast app (re-buffering everything as soon as you switch subtitles, etc) but apart from that It Just Works™.

YNAB compared to Mint, anyone?

I've found Mint better at tracking what I spent money on in previous months (which isn't really budgeting). It's much better at big picture--did I spend more money than I made this month? Wow, I spent more than I expected on my fuel this month--or is that possibly fraudulent and I should follow up on it?

YNAB is similar to the envelope method; take your income and put it into buckets. As you incur expenses you deduct from those buckets.

Here's a big example where Mint falls short but YNAB works well; my utilities are bi-monthly. With YNAB, I'd stash away half of the amount every month and it would get subtracted when I get billed.

That being said, I never got into the habit of using YNAB long-term (tested out YNAB4 and the new web offering), but I wish I would.

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