Over the past month I have stumbled across a few applications that look very promising due to the easy way they tackle the mundane tasks I perform everyday as a web developer. None of these tasks individually take that much time, however over the course of a day it just gets annoying and distracting.

Evernote

My note taking about everything from new ideas to cool sounding github projects to look into is sporatic at best. Most of the time how I take the note depends on where I am or what I am doing at the moment and I mostly use 37 Signals Backpackit, and iphone stickies. I was sure there was a much better way. I found it this past week with Evernote. This sits in my menubar on my mac next to my Dropbox, and stays synced with my iphone. No morebrowsing to 37 Signals (at least not for simple notes).

Gitbox

To me Using Git was never a hard thing to do, however being able to push, pull, commit, diff, and have the commit log in a single GUI is really something i can get used to. Its a tremendus time saver and a few less things I need to remember or lookup in a hurry. I mention Gitbox as oppose to GitX just because it seems a little bit more polished. GitX is still a great free alternative.

Receivd

Receivd is the newest application of the bunch, in fact its so new its still in private beta. Receivd is a file sharing application that lets you that lets you add contacts and contact lists of people you want to share files with. To me the cool thing about this is the fact its a desktop/iphone app so have things like drag and drop, and can manage lists and security settings without going and logging into a dropbox online. I have way to many browsers open already.

...theres one more that I think should be mentioned but I won't go into detail about is MongoHub, a cool GUI for your Mongo databases.