The price is very reasonable and once everything is set up for your domain, it “just works”. Office 365: the “swiss army knife” of productivity tools: enterprise-grade e-mail and calendar, SharePoint sites for collaborating or storing knowledge, and OneDrive that has 1TB of storage and that is a serious competitor for tools like Google Drive and DropBox.Fever is unfortunately no longer maintained by his author, but it remains very stable. Fever: this “self-hosted Google Reader” is still my main information hub, gathering hundreds of RSS feeds that would otherwise be impossible to follow.Invaluable for capturing the notes of a meeting, or “scanning” a document when you don’t have a scanner. I especially like the way it “straightens” pictures of documents, whiteboards, flipcharts… Office Lens: a Microsoft mobile app (Windows, iOS, Android) that “scans” about everything with the camera of your phone.Administration is a piece of cake, even for non-tech users, with e.g. I’m looking forward to their update that has the new editor. Recent releases have been focussing on the usability for the writer, and it is setting the standards for usability. WordPress: excellent blogging platform.

For those who don’t want to give all their data away and don’t mind playing with a webserver, it is a must try. Wallabag: a self-hosted “Read Later” web application (or Pocket competitor), that allows you to capture websites via a “bookmarklet”, tag and store them for later.It is fully cross platform with a nice and stable client for OS X! (personal and professional learning) Unbeatable in combination with SharePoint or OneDrive, and a tablet pc with a digitizer pen (like the Surface, or recently the new iPad with the stylus). Microsoft OneNote: still the best note-taking application.You have until September 21 to contribute, and results will be available on October 1. Jane Hart is gathering votes again for her annual “ Top tools for learning“.

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