Curate, connect, and discover
Tracking
Blendle Blendle is actually a tool designed to help newspapers generate more revenue through paid articles. But Blendle has an outstanding collection of print editions from the largest newspapers and magazines in Germany and it makes it super easy to search for keywords (e.g. FinTech) and find out how wrote an article in what magazine. Give it a few minutes and you have a powerful list of journalists to talk to in no time.
Alert.io Alert is my go-to tool for tracking things on the web. No matter if it’s topics, keywords, companies or competitors, Alert.io got you covered.
Project Management
Asana I have tried Asana a couple of times in the past, but was never really happy with it – until their redesign in October. Now I’m transitioning all my personal and work related projects and tasks from Todoist, which I’m still very fond of.
Todoist If you are looking for a very reliable, fast and minimalistic ToDo app, then Todoist would be my personal recommendation. I’ve been happily paying for a pro account for the last two years and organized all of my personal and most of my work related things in it. Now, that I’m working in a bigger team at Ballou PR, I transitioned to Asana, to keep everyone on the same page.
Writing
Ulysses III Ulysses is my favorite writing app by far. It’s really beautiful, fast and has many handy features including markdown support and a powerful export feature. As a hobby writer (who writes far too little), this is definitely my biggest discovery over the last five
Desk PM I came across this little gem just a few days ago and what I love the most about it, is the instant publishing feature for platforms like Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress, Squarespace, Medium and a few others. Even though it lacks a few features that would be nice to have and has a few bugs, I was happy to pay the 19,99€ for the full version for one simple reason: I didn’t have to copy and paste written articles to the website. That was the single biggest issue that I had with publishing articles online.
Other stuff
Producthunt Whenever I can’t remember the name of an app that I wanted to try, I head over to Producthunt instead of searching for it on Google. It’s easily the best resource on the web to find apps and services that are useful.