Some writing essentials, based on my daily dependence:
▰ Obsidian — best note-keeping tool I’ve found, works cross-platform, syncs seamlessly (via iCloud and its own paid tier), and I’ve temporarily paused my use of Ulysses and Scrivener in favor of this for proper writing, both short-form and long-form (when I need an editor to take a look, I pop it into Google Drive, for which I’ve yet to find a worthy alternative)
▰ TextSniper — copy text from images, like PDFs, ads, and photos
▰ Dropbox — far from perfect but I haven’t found a worthy alternative
▰ MacWhisper — transcribes my recordings, as a solid subset of my notes over the course of the day are audio bits I tape on the fly
▰ Blurred — makes it (on a Mac) so all the windows except the active one are a little darker
▰ Reeder Classic + Feedly — I use this combo as my RSS reader, Feedly for the subscriptions and Reeder to actually read them (less cluttered than Feedly); you can use Reeder Classic with iCloud, but I found it slow