Manton Reece

http://manton.org/

Manton Reece is the founder of Riverfold Software and works at VitalSource building e-book software. He has two independent Mac products, Clipstart and Wii Transfer, and also co-hosts the Core Intuition podcast with Daniel Jalkut.

Instapaper—One of the few iPhone apps that significantly changed how I work. Any blog post or news article that is more than a paragraph of text gets shuttled into Instapaper to read later. The iPad version of Instapaper gets the most use now, though.

Pastebot—Handy app for keeping track of multiple clipboards and bits of text. I like to think of this as a tiny content management system. I’ll use it as a quick scratchpad for notes that are going to be thrown away, and also to keep snippets of common text that are helpful when responding to support email from customers on-the-go.

Darkslide—I also have the official Flickr app and Mobile Fotos installed, both of which are good, but I prefer Darkslide for browsing Flickr contacts.

Reeder—Just like Twitter clients, I often swap RSS readers on and off the home screen. Reeder is the current favorite, but most RSS goes through NetNewsWire on the iPad these days. I sync with Google Reader and no longer have a news reader running on my Mac. If it comes to me via RSS, it gets read on the iPhone or iPad.

Ninjawords—Convenient for quick lookups. I expect this’ll get even more use when multitasking hits in iPhone 4.0.

Ember—Excellent native client for 37signals’s Campfire chat web app. I’m in Campfire every day with colleagues, and it’s nice to be able to keep up with the conversation even when out running errands.

TaskPaper—My to-do list and project management app of choice because of its simplicity and unstructured approach. I use this on the Mac and sync with the iPhone so that I can add ideas when I’m not at the computer.

Gowalla—I didn’t expect this to become one of the most-used apps on my phone, but it is. I love the design and personality of this service. I work from coffee shops a few times a week, and use Gowalla to check-in and occasionally meet-up with nearby friends.

Birdfeed—Tweetie, Twitterrific, and Birdhouse have all been in this spot in the past, and I still switch between any of them depending on what I need. There’s something about the Birdfeed design that feels very natural and well-planned, though. It’ll drop off my home screen soon when Twitter switches to OAuth and breaks old clients.

iPod—Not picture, but the iPod app is wired up to a double-press of the home button.