A few months ago I wrote an article describing my Top 7 Tools for Interaction Design and IA.
Since then I’ve added a couple of other power tools to my frequently used set.
I drank the DevonThink Pro Kool Aid. DevonThink is a general note taker and snippet database. It’s hard to get how useful and important such a tool is until you have used it for a while. The functionality should be built into the OS. [That's a vision to steal, btw.]
I also started using Scrivener to organize and compose long articles and the book. Simple and wonderful. It’s what Word would have become 15 years ago had Microsoft realized that writers need word processors to help them think.
(Interestingly, both these Mac-only tools use TextEdit at their core. They also rest on the Mac’s package architecture that lets a document contain other documents.)
