Like you, I spend a lot of time in front of my computer (in my case, its a well-traveled Macbook Pro). Here are some of my favorite tools for working on a Mac.

Audacity, a free cross-platform audio editor.

Zengobi’s Curio is an inspiring, versatile space for thinking. It’s integrated with Evernote, so anything in your Evernote notebook can easily be dropped into a Curio design space.

Evernote, the free online cross-platform memory bank.

Marco Arment’s Instapaper is a browser-based tool for liberating, reshaping, and cataloging content for a much improved reading experience. Try it.

MarsEdit 3 is still a great way to get things into WordPress.

Notational Velocity Alt is Brett Terpstra’s terrific fork of the already-terrific Notational Velocity. A great tool for note-taking, NV Alt handles MultiMarkdown and more.

Tags, made by Case Apps, is a terrific OpenMeta-compliant tagging application. Tags are metadata that are attached to files and folders in order to make retrieval easier. Other OpenMeta compliant software is available, of course.

Papers, a handsome (if imperfect and occasionally maddening) PDF database.

Literature and Latte’s Scrivener, a comprehensive word processor.

TextMate, a coder’s dream editor.

Transmit, Panic’s great little FTP app.