What is on my computer
Tools and apps I work with - today: Frank Blome
Hello, my name is Frank Blome and I founded ProjectWizards in 2002 and have been leading the company ever since.. As CEO, my area of responsibility actually includes everything that no one else feels responsible for 😉. Additionally I lead the project management.
For my daily work I use a variety of programs, especially because I also like to try something new.
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Even though the internal communication at ProjectWizards runs via Zoom this is unfortunately not my only communication tool. Because I work with different groups of users, I also live in MS Teams, Discord, Signal, LinkedIn, Apple's Messages, FaceTime, Zulip and Slack.
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Merlin Project is not only my baby, but also one of my main tools! It is not only used to organize all projects, but also to capture brainstorming results as mind maps, to document tasks in the Kanban board and — admittedly a bit unusually — to handle key account management.
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Back in the old days™, BBEditwas my editor of choice (since 1988—the beginning of my Macintosh era. These days, that’s mostly true only for shell scripts and documents that need to be converted. For all other writing, we now offer our own product: adoc Studio. It is a full editorial system based on AsciiDoc for Mac and iPad/iPhone.
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Of course, business planning and analysis is a major topic for me. Here Microsoft Excel is my tool of choice.
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For many years, presentations were built in Keynote , but that has changed. Most slides are now written using adoc Studio. For presentations, I created my own style.
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Versioning for all texts is handled in Git. As a frontend, I use Tower exclusively (well, sometimes the command-line tools too).
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Naturally, the built-in tools in macOS and iOS/iPadOS are also used regularly. Above all, that includes Mail, Calendar, and Safari.
Updated April 2026
Since many things have changed over the past five years I updated the list in April 2026.
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