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1 | Favorite Tools or Tips? | COMMENT |
2 | March 9, 2018 | |
3 | #NICAR18 30 Tools in 60 Minutes Session with @jeremycaplan | Original session handout at bit.ly/wondertools | |
4 | Feel free to add to the collaborative tool list below | |
5 | #NICAR18 Contributor Answers Below | |
6 | JamSnap is an app that let you take a photo and then add points of sound onto the image. Great little app | |
7 | DocumentCloud (documentcloud.org): Great way to store, search, annotate and embed documents. | |
8 | Apester - for nice-looking quizzes, really easy to use. | |
9 | Reporters Committee First Aid. The interface looks very early aughts, but don't let that fool you -- it's a wonderful way to access information about different open records act laws in different states, and to create project lists of FOIAs. | |
10 | Otranscribe -- free transcription notepad that has quick keystroke shortcuts for time stamps, fast forwarding, rewinding, stopping. It also automatically rewinds three seconds every time you pause the tape. | |
11 | Odyssey js, by Carto. Not new. But makes nice storymap type projects. The vertical scroll with the map at the top option is nice. https://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/ | |
12 | Marzipano. Upload multiple related 360-degree images to assemble them into a virtual tour. Versatile infoboxes. www.marzipano.net. Free. | |
13 | zapier similar to ifttt but includes Evernote as a "that" | |
14 | infogram.com Really easy way to make embeddable interactive charts, including maps. | |
15 | Using Twitter and plugging in the latitude and longitude to pinpoint a certain area and find sources. Great for breaking news. | |
16 | 4K Video Downloader - Standalone mac app for downloading YouTube videos - gives size options and automatically applies clipboard URLs. | |
17 | Audiogram is awesome!! I get a lot of good feedback from people on Instagram how the vizualization of audio looks great! I also used a photo that I created on photoshop. https://audiogram.sparemin.com | |
18 | I love using Audiograms for social media! It visualizes small audio clips and works great on Instagram and Twitter. | |
19 | pdfescape.com, smallpdf.com for easy pdf manipulation | |
20 | 500px - also free-ish high quality images | |
21 | thenounproject.com - free icons in png or svg with transparent backgrounds | |
22 | Onetab -- clear up tab clutter, save lists of urls, and share them. | |
23 | f.lux -- dymanically changes the warmth of your screen to decrease eyestrain and for better sleep | |
24 | The Great Suspender -- Tabs slowing things down? This Chrome extension auto-suspends them. | |
25 | Asana -- it's awesome, similar to Trello but beautiful and such a great team organizer | |
26 | Auxy - Make synth-style music easy without much music knowledge. | |
27 | Sprout Social Landscape: Social media photo resizer. Huge timesaver in sizing images on the social desk. Free: https://sproutsocial.com/landscape | |
28 | Hyperlapse app for iOS: Awesome for two reasons: It's made by Instagram, and it has great stabilization software in it. Much better than timelapse app built into your phone. | |
29 | Slack / address email overload; single private channel (unlimited?) free outside org | |
30 | Transcriptions - Trint - https://trint.com/ | |
31 | Brainio (Mac) - lets you visualize tree maps of text | |
32 | Data, visualizations and stories: https://ourworldindata.org/ | |
33 | Data and test your knowledge: https://www.gapminder.org/ | |
34 | Data on population projections: https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/ | |
35 | Great Windows search tool 'Everything' https://www.voidtools.com/ | |
36 | Control email subscriptions https://unroll.me/ | |
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