Software used by science and technology reporters

At CES 2012, Fan's member @ Li Dong met The Verge's Joshua Topolsky. As The website editor, he still shuttled through The frontline and brought us fresh and hot reports.

What tools does he usually rely on when writing reports? In The latest installment of The Setup interview, The enthusiastic person gave The answer.

• Joshua mainly uses a 13-inch Macbook Air to write reports. It is configured with the i7 processor, 4 GB memory, and 256 gb ssd;
• For writing, use the text editor provided by the system to write in the plain text mode. For long text, use the software Compositions that can synchronize text through Dropbox;
• Joshua uses Typinator to improve efficiency because many duplicate texts are required to be input every day. This software can define the abbreviation. You only need to enter one or two letters and then press the shortcut key to expand the complete text;
• He prefers Slingshot. The effect of this software is clear, which satisfies Joshua. The simple image trimming mainly relies on the Preview provided by the system ), if you need more modifications, use PhotoShop;
• Use Evernote and its browser plug-in to record text and images;
• Fantastical is a tool to quickly add a scheduled item to iCal. Then he will use Spanning Sync 3 to synchronize Google Calendar with iCal;
• Chrome is the main browser of Joshua. He usually uses Overflow and Alfred as the Quick Start tool to quickly call out his favorite applications, files, and commands.

From the tools listed above, the work software of science and technology reporters is mainly divided into several categories: text editing, image editing, notes, transaction management and some system applications. From my own work experience, Quick Start tools, convenient input methods, and tools that can adjust the image size at one time can greatly improve work efficiency.

As you can see, Joshua's work software is based on the Mac platform. In fact, there are many good tools in Windows. For example:

• Launcher for quick start;
• Quick PicPick;
• Windows Live Writer, which has good support for multiple blog platforms, can save a lot of energy;
• Ditto, a multi-clipboard tool, plays the same role as Typinator and stores repeated fields. It is convenient to directly attach them when necessary;
• Collect and organize data. Evernote is also available in Windows.

With these office software, you can write efficiently on both Mac and Windows platforms. If you like writing, do not forget these software.

Finally, share a picture of Joshua Topolsky's office. It's cool:

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Original article: http://www.ifanr.com/73678