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13 Tech Tools to Add To Your Life In 2020

Alexandra Samuel
9 min readJan 5, 2020

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This is a list of the tech tools that I recommend adding to your life in 2020. There are many others I use just as much as these, but these are the ones that you might not have heard of (or might not have wanted to commit to) but which have all delighted me.

1. Setapp

Screenshot of Setapp showing recommended and new apps in bundle
The Setapp app on my Mac suggests new apps I might find useful, and lets me find exactly what I need to do just about any task.

If you’re a Mac user, this is the best and easiest way of finding all the little bits of software you need, and in a single subscription. I thought it was just for non-nerds but quite the opposite: Their team tells me that nerds like me love it precisely because it saves us from spending our entire lives looking at different software tools. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve discovered through Setapp that are now part of my daily life. Mac

2. SpellTower

SpellTower is my new favorite mobile game. It’s a nice-sized word game, and you can only play the daily challenge twice, so it takes about fifteen or twenty minutes of each day, which is about the exact right amount of time: Enough to play once during the day while in a lineup or on a customer service hold, and then once again right before bed which is so relaxing! Plus it’s a word game so it feels…

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Alexandra Samuel
Alexandra Samuel

Written by Alexandra Samuel

Speaker on hybrid & remote work. Author, Remote Inc. Contributor to Wall Street Journal & Harvard Business Review. https://AlexandraSamuel.com/newsletter

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