Focusmate

Find folks and schedule a 25, 50 or 75-minute session to work on your own individual project. Check in at the beginning and again at the end for accountability. Intrigued. / via a story Swissmiss shared

focusmate.com

Focusmate

Open Broadcaster Software

Software that lets you record your computer screen AND front facing (or external) camera at the same time. As seen on Paul Carroll’s Everything I Made videos (there’s a new one for 2023!)

obsproject.com

Screen recording software

Poline

Esoteric Color Palette Generator that “harnesses mystical witchcraft” by David Aerne. Scroll down for options and the extra nice color naming. / via Dan Burzo

meodai.github.io

Color wheel with 5 selections along an axis

Save SVGs extension

Oh my word I didn't know this browser extension existed. I’m often trying to track down SVG logos and stuff for companies. It's Chrome based, so it works with Arc!

svgexport.io

SVG art of a fingerprint

Tidy Reader

“A simple bookmarklet to tidy up articles for easy reading” and OMG IT’S AWESOME

stephanango.com

Tidy Reader

Relight

Change lighting of photos with AI. It's free, so there's all that comes with that. But it's also pretty dang good.

clipdrop.co

A man holds his cat and three colored dots indicate changing the lighting

Murf.ai

Text to speech with a AI voice generator. (The pro versions sound particularly good.) / via John Maeda

murf.ai

Illustrations of users with different use cases for AI generated audio including an educator, marketer, author, corporate coach and broadcaster

Collective

Back-office for a Business-of-One, including company formation, tax, accounting and bookkeeping services. Not available in Ohio yet, but this looks v promising. / via Erik

collective.com

A stylized logo with the letter C made of many small circles

Excel, an overlooked design tool

I've done a pretty good job of making Powerpoint look good, but this is next level stuff. / via Sidebar

bootcamp.uxdesign.cc

An infographic of a circle chart and bar chart

Word Hippo

Whenever I need to find another word for something, or definition, pronunciation, antonym and even translations (great for branding exercises) I go here. A super valuable tool. / via Erik

wordhippo.com

A duotone image of hippo and a baby hippo

Firefox Relay

Create randomly generated email addresses that forward to your real inbox. Handy. / via Paul Bausch

relay.firefox.com

Icons illustrating different email options

Duotone Generator

Simple browser based tool to create duotones.

duotones.co

A cat done in duotone of orange and blue

Better Twitter

Hide promoted tweets, trends, who to follow and more! Since installing browser extension I've been transported back to a quieter and calmer time. A plugin for Firefox and Chrome by Razvan Caliman

github.com

The Twitter bird