Thought & Theory

If you’re like us then you have a ton of feeds to deal with everyday. Also, if you’re like us you have to manage about 10 or 20 different productivity apps (Basecamp, Freshbooks, Unfuddle, etc) on your side and on the client side. Its gets really hard to manage all this activity and while most of these apps offer RSS Feeds, they’re password protected and therefore can’t be used in Google Reader. That makes for a huge inefficiency, and since Thought & Theory is moving forward and expanding lately (more on that tomorrow), we need ways to reduce the amount of noise during our day.

Enter NewsFire for Mac.

Before, NewsFire was actually a paid desktop app, but now its absolutely FREE! I can’t tell you how much this has helped me personally. I can now view all activity across clients and internal projects in one window and then react accordingly. Its what email is supposed to be. I still keep the random design blogs on google reader but for my desktop, I want ways to see what’s going on in my work life in one shot.

So if you get a second, check out the app and see if it helps you out.

Are there any other apps out there that you use to make your life easier?