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17 Killer Mac Apps Under $20 (Part 4) : Typeit4me, ReadKit, Doo document organizer

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11. Typeit4me

Type less, but say more

Price: $19.99

TypeIt4Me comes with a few sample clippings, and as our library grew, we really appreciated all the sorting options. You can order your list by most used, last used, alphabet, last added, and so on, and sync your clipping sets over iCloud to other Macs and iOS devices with TypeIt4Me Touch ($4.99, universal). If you want to get old-school, a printable list of your clippings and abbreviations is one click away. And it’s easy to exclude some apps or restrict certain clipping sets to certain apps. You can even set up trigger keys that you have to press before an abbreviation, to avoid typing them inadvertently. Your clippings don’t have to be plain text, either. They can be rich text, images, or have special characters like tabs and returns. You can insert the date and time, nest clippings inside each other and even run AppleScripts.

One of the more useful examples: a short blog post’s worth of lorem ipsum placeholder text.

One of the more useful examples: a short blog post’s worth of lorem ipsum placeholder text.

The bottom line

Category-leading TextExpander ($34.99 Mac, $4.99 iOS) goes further, letting you set up form-letter-like snippets and share your snippets on the web. But if you can forgo those, TypeIt4Me is just as great at saving you time.

·         Product: TypeIt4Me 5.3.2

·         Company: Ettore Software

·         Contact: www.ettoresoftware.com

·         Price: $19.99

·         Requirements: 64-bit processor, OS X 10.7 or later

Positives: Nearly as robust as TextExpander but for less. On sale for $4.99 at press time. Syncs to a universal $4.99 app for iPad/iPhone

Negatives: Missing some of TextExpander’s more advanced features. No sharing or importing of clipping sets.

Rated (Great): 4/5

12. ReadKit

Where to read your read-it-latters when it’s later

Price: $4.99

Your digital reading pile can get as disorganized as that stack of magazines on the nightstand, especially if you use more than one service. ReadKit streamlines your reading with offline support for Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability, plus bookmarks from Pinboard and Delicious. (Pinboard and Instapaper require paid accounts.) ReadKit lists each account in the sidebar, including categories such as Delicious and Pinboard’s private folders, and the way Pocket splits your entries into Articles, Videos, and Images. Mouse over a service’s name and select Hide to collapse the lists. 

Instapaper, Delicious, Pocket, Readability, and Pinboard, all in one client

Instapaper, Delicious, Pocket, Readability, and Pinboard, all in one client

The toolbar along the bottom has a button to switch the view from folders to tags, and a tag button under the preview pane lets you add new tags to each entry. You can search to filter, hide, or show any of the panels, tweak the article font and interface theme, and display the unread count in the dock. Buttons at the top let you send an article to Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, email, or iMessage, or mark it read or as a favorite. When you switch to Pinboard or Delicious, those buttons change to a browser-like forward/back/refresh scheme. The internal browser renders pages well, including streaming video, but we did hit some hiccups when loading pages with pop-ups. And you can’t manage your folders within ReadKit – you have to use each service’s site or app, and then refresh ReadKit to see the changes. 

The bottom line

Saving articles for later reading works best if you actually go back and read them later, and ReadKit makes it easy.

·         Product: ReadKit 1.2

·         Company: Webin

·         Contact: www.readkitapp.com

·         Price: $4.99

·         Requirements: 64-bit processor, OS X 10.7 or later

Positives: Simple, effective way to organize tons of offline reading material. Good interface and stable performance.

Negatives: Only one reading list visible at any given time. No ability to make custom folders to drag in articles from different services.

Rated (Great): 4/5

13. Doo document organizer

How to find things in the cloud

Price: Free

With our files scattered across so many cloud services, it can be a pain to remember where we put things. With Doo Document Organizer, that problem is a thing of the past. 

Think of Doo as kind of like a Finder for the cloud. Once you link your storage services – Dropbox, Google Drive, and SkyDrive – it quickly indexes your files and folders and presents them all for easy viewing, either as a giant list or organized by location. It does the same for your email or any local folder on your Mac; just tell Doo where to look and it will add whatever it finds to your library. And if you’re wary about letting Doo see too much, it’s easy to eliminate folders and wide swaths of files from its prying eyes. 

With Doo’s sorting options, you’ll never forget which cloud is storing your document.

With Doo’s sorting options, you’ll never forget which cloud is storing your document.

Much like the Finder, there’s no actual editing to be done in Doo. In simple terms, it’s like a dynamic snapshot of your documents; none of your files are actually moved or copied, but anything can be accessed in an instant and quickly opened in its associated app. You can view your documents in preview or list mode, and finding things is a snap thanks to predictive search, coupled with powerful, multi-layered sorting. Constant syncing makes sure everything stays current, and a handy duplicate finder helps eliminate clutter. 

Like other cloud services, Doo puts a limit on its free tier, and while the 1GB cap is one of lowest we’ve seen, a bit of selection should keep Doo humming along. We were bummed to learn that Doo couldn’t sync our iCloud documents, and while we were interested to add our mail accounts, it required us to set far too many filtering rules to make it useful. 

The bottom line

If you’ve ever wished for a cloud-powered Finder, you can’t Doo much better than this.

·         Product: Doo 1.0.5

·         Company: Doo.net

·         Contact: http://doo.net 

·         Price: Free. (Storage beyond the free 1GB starts at $4.99/month for 10GB).

·         Requirements: OS X 10.8.2 or later.

Positives: Excellent file handling. Powerful sorting and searching. Speedy syncing

Negatives: Small storage cap requires vigilance. No support for iCloud files.

Rated (Great): 4/5

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