App Store:<p><pre><code> Fantastical - NLP calendar and reminders.
Day One - Journal that can be used to replace scribbled sticky notes and notebooks
you have laying around.
AirMail - Mail client.
SomaFM Radio Player - Ambient music stations.
Textual - IRC.
Moom - Window management.
Pixelmator, iDraw, Sketch, Inkscape - Graphics, ditch Adobe.
Markdown Pro - Markdown editor. End up using for repo readmes and for most textual
documents.
</code></pre>
Non-App Store:<p><pre><code> Incanter - Statistical computing and graphics.
iTerm2 - Terminal replacement.
Pencil - Prototyping/mockups.
Wireshark - Capture ALL the packets!
Temperature Gauge Pro - Monitor all your hardware sensors and control your fans.
Better than SMC (plays nicely with Haswell/Mavericks).
VIM, Emacs, Sublime Text, jEdit - Solid editors.
Homebrew - Everything else (even some of the editors, if you wish). Be sure to check
out interesting taps too (e.g. science and nginx):
https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Interesting-Taps-%26-Branches</code></pre>
Surprised nobody has mentioned:<p><a href="http://www.alfredapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.alfredapp.com/</a><p>Basic version free power pack 17 pounds
SuperDuper for making bootable clones of your hard drive. $27.95.<p><a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription...</a>
Brew <a href="http://brew.sh/" rel="nofollow">http://brew.sh/</a> Free<p>Sublime Text <a href="https://www.sublimetext.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sublimetext.com/</a> $70 per user (install it on multiple machines and it is cheap)<p>Transmit <a href="http://panic.com/transmit/" rel="nofollow">http://panic.com/transmit/</a> $34
<p><pre><code> * Pixelmator
* Sublime Text 2/3
* Tower or SourceTree
* Mailplane if you run multiple Gmail accounts
* If you need to work on Illustrator files: iDraw (in App Store)
* TotalFinder is pretty cool, too</code></pre>
* Pixelmator
* Sublime Text 2/3
* SizeUP
* Brew<p>The rest of the stuff I've used is not deleted. I changed Tower for Git line command and started to become adicted to command line things.<p>---
* IA Writer (well, I do mostly of my text with Sublime).