![]() With Chrome OS, I could pin windows on each side of the screen and resize them simultaneously. I need to make the most of my big monitor. I deal with research, Zoom calls, and whatever. I have to work in split-screen very often. One of the things I miss most about Chrome OS is window management. Having a calendar sitting in my system tray where I can pull it up with one click and instantly see the month, my agenda, any meetings I have with clients… it’s all there, and it works great. I could stick with Google Calendar (and I do), but I have supplemented it with Fantastical.Īs you’ll see in a lot of cases, having a native app is just a nicer experience. Since the death of Google Reader (RIP), I think Google Calendar is probably the thing they do best. Because of the time and headaches it saves, it was worth it for me to make the switch just to be able to use this app. Publisher Rocket helps me find the right ones to target. I took a quick course on how to effectively use keywords and categories, and am planning this week to really run through my keywords and categories and fix them up. Keywords and categories are a big part of your success or failure as an author. It just saves so much time, energy, and headaches. ![]() I can honestly say I cannot run my self-publishing business without Vellum. They turn out professional, clean, and with everything I need. With Vellum, I can format books for any bookstore with just a couple of clicks. Vellum is a Mac-only app and it is 100% worth using for any self-published author.įormatting your book files can be a nightmare. Let’s run through my favorites, starting with the two that forced me to make the switch in the first place. So what are the apps that I use every day? What apps have transformed my workday into something intuitive, fast, and productive? That being said, if you are a writer by trade, a MacBook Air is a really great bet. No, I don’t think everyone needs to run out and buy a MacBook Air. It’s Linux-based (which is important to me – not to most other people, but to me). I still have a Google Pixel 3a phone.īut since I’ve been forced back into the Mac ecosystem, I am happy to have all the features that come with a native operating system that installs apps. All I had to do was swap out the machines.Īnd I love it. Fortunately, all the cables and the USB hub I used with my Pixelbook worked swimmingly with the MacBook. I came home with a brand new M1 MacBook Air with a Magic Keyboard. So, with a scowl on my face, I walked out of my home office, down the stairs, past my wife (who wondered aloud why I looked so crabby), grabbed my keys, and went to the mall to hit up the Apple Store. I figured I could install Publisher Rocket on there and just use that when I needed to.īut that didn’t make any sense, because I would still need to rent that remote Mac to use the other app, which is Mac-only.Īt this point, for simplicity’s sake, I told myself: If you are going to buy a new computer, then buy one that does all the things you need it to do, and make that your daily driver from here on out. I thought of spending a couple hundred bucks on a used Windows Surface Pro. The administrator of my remote Mac gave me some nonsense line about why it wasn’t working and how I had to upgrade to a subscription plan at $80/month if I wanted to install this app.Īt $1,000/year, I might as well just get a Mac. When I finally got around to my plan to use it, I couldn’t install it on the remote Mac. I have owned a copy of Publisher Rocket for a long time, but I hadn’t used it in years. This year, I am working to take keywords and categories more seriously. I could generate the book files I needed, sync them to Drive, and have them available on my Pixelbook when I was done. As it turns out, you can rent Mac computers in the cloud, so I simply bought time on a remote Mac, 30 hours at a time, and installed Google Drive on it. There was no way to use that app on a Chromebook. Forced into a changeĪs an author, there was one app that I needed to use a Mac for. As I write this, I am working on the new M1 MacBook Air. I adored that machine.Ī couple weeks ago, I had to stop using it as my daily driver. I bought a used Pixelbook for half the price of a brand new one, and it came with the $100 Pixelbook Pen. Combine that with the tablet capabilities of most Chromebook now, and it was an unbeatable machine. I love the simplicity of the ecosystem, how fast everything was, and how clean my experience was. In fact, I sold my old 2015 MacBook Air in 2017 to return to the Chrome OS world. I think Chromebooks are incredible machines, most are reasonably priced, and probably 80-90% of the general public would do just fine with a Chromebook.
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