Free Mac App A Day > Productivity

Due to the hideous icon of WeatherVane, the app I posted yesterday, I felt compelled to post an app today with a nice, clean icon. After some scavenging, I found an excellent note-taking app called SketchBox. SketchBox is like OS X’s Stickies app, only infinitely better. Each note you make is stored in an iPhoto-esque environment with
your notes in a grid view. But, what makes the notes special is that they can store text, drawings, pictures, and even custom timers. All of these functions make for a great app with an attractive price: $0.

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WeatherVane is a simplistic tool that can show you your five-day weather forecast when you click an icon (the current temperature in your city) in your menu bar. I can see how it would be useful for people (specifically those who travel a lot), even if I don’t really use it. But in any case, it’s a nice little app with a neat function that can add to your arsenal of menu bar tools.

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iProcrastinate is an awesome assignment manager for Mac. It has a clean and intuitive interface, which helps to keep your organized for school. You can add your subjects in and color code them, then add assignments. Then you add and prioritize tasks, and it will do the rest. It has dedicated note-taking sections and a place to put files accompanying the task. You can also burn all of your assignments to a disc! The accompanying iPhone app (iProcrastinate Mobile) is also impressive. It carries over most of the features from the Mac version, and helps you stay organized on the go. The developer is currently working on making the two apps sync together, which should make for an amazing set of GTD tools at your disposal. Grab it while it’s hot, and get ready for school!

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I hate to bring it up, but school is nearing. Fast. Since the coming year is always harder than the previous, it’s nice to have an edge. Schoolhouse can help you with that. Schoolhouse is an awesome assignment manager that has come a long way since its early versions. It features task listing, note-taking, file attachments, grade viewing, and even “classcasting”, a class-based podcasting service. Put simply, Schoolhouse can organize anything you do in school with ease, in a great, well-developed interface.

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Every copy of Mac OS X (or any Unix-based system) ships with a Terminal application.  Terminal lets you run commands and access deeper tools than what’s available through most applications with a GUI. But, many have also complained at the lack of features that the default Terminal has. This is where iTerm comes in. iTerm has a ton of features like AppleScript support, custom background pictures, Bonjour support (with bookmarks), mouse focus following, rearrangeable tabs, a customizable interface, and even the ability to send a command to multiple tabs. The list goes on. iTerm is an amazing app that’s nearing its 1.0 release, which I really look forward to in the near future.

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Dock Spaces is the kind of app I’ve been hoping for since I really began to use the Dock. Now, the Dock generally stores your favorite apps so you can conveniently open them, but what happens when it starts to fill up with apps? Then it becomes a huge mess, and nothing is within reach anymore. Dock Spaces fixes this problem by allowing you to have 5 different docks that you can switch between anytime. So, you can have one dock for work/school, one for photo editing, and one for gaming, or whatever you want. It’s an extremely useful little app, and it works very fast. Very highly recommended.

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