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The 10 apps I can't live or work without - on Windows, Mac, and mobile

I've been covering tech for decades. These are the software tools I use for work (and occasional recreation) every day - and boy, have they changed a lot over the last few years.

I have a family plan ($5 a month, billed annually), which makes it easy for my wife and me to keep individual credentials as well as a shared vault for services we access with a single account. This easy-to-use app, developed by a small team that started in 2020, uses the lightweight Markdown language to create structured documents with rich formatting that can be saved as text files. Its built-in player handles just about any audio or video file, including lossless music tracks in FLAC and ALAC formats, in a fashion that's more organized than the one-track-at-a-time VLC.

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