We are were a 100% remote web design company.

Before 45royale closed down, we had remote workers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Portugal. As such, we got asked a lot of questions about remote working. What does your day look like? How do you all stay in sync? What tools and software do you use? Is it hard to work across multiple time zones?

To help answer some of these questions, we thought we'd put together a list of the apps, tech, and routines we used every day as a remote team of web designers and developers. This list is comprehensive, but if you would like to know more about our process and how we work, feel free to contact us.

Applications

The daily apps we use to get our work done.

Productivity

1Password Everyone
Asana Everyone
Harvest Everyone
Magnet Matt
Spotify Everyone
Wunderlist Matt

File Management

CloudApp Everyone
Dropbox Everyone
Google Docs Everyone
Digital Ocean Everyone

Design

Balsamiq Adam
Figma Matt
InVision Everyone
Principle Matt
Sketch Everyone
Sketch Cleaner Matt

Communication

Astro Adam & Matt
iMessage Everyone
Polymail Tiago
Slack Everyone
Zoom Everyone

Marketing

MailChimp Everyone
Buffer Matt
Twitter Everyone
Hemingway Editor Matt
Grammarly Matt

Development

Sublime Text Matt
Codekit Everyone
MAMP Adam & Matt
Sourcetree Adam & Matt
iTerm 2 Matt
GitHub Everyone
Gitdone Everyone
Visual Studio Code Tiago
Flywheel Local Adam & Tiago
Git Tower Tiago
Buddy Adam & Tiago

Everyday Tech

13" Macbook Air Adam
15” Macbook Pro Matt
27” iMac 5K Tiago
Apple Magic Mouse Matt
Apple Magic Keyboard Matt
WD 1TB Black My Passport Portable External HD Matt
iPhone X Everyone
Apple TV 4K Matt
Apple Watch Series 2 Adam & Matt
Google Home Adam
Google Wifi Adam & Matt
Amazon Echo 2nd Generation Matt
Amazon Echo Dot 2nd Generation Matt
M-Audio AV42 Studio Speakers Matt
Ledger Nano S Matt
Etekcity Voltson Wi-Fi Smart Plug Mini Matt

Environmental & aesthetic

Warm Tobacco Pipe Candle Matt
PaperMate Ink Joy Gel 0.5 Matt
Pano Book Matt
Post-it Notes, New York Collection Matt
The Art of Vintage DC Comics: 100 Postcards Matt
Trader Vic's Aloha Coconut (for pens and pencils) Matt

Morning routines

Happy hour & and after hours

Everyday apps

Books

Universal Principles of Design Matt
Grid Systems in Graphic Design Matt
Envisioning Information Matt
Rework Matt
Remote: Office Not Required Matt
Do you matter? Matt
Everybody Writes Matt
The Tipping Point Matt
Principles: Life and Work Matt
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Matt
Steve Jobs Matt
The Way to Wealth Matt
Tools of Titans Matt
The 4 Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex and Becoming Superhuman Adam
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing Matt
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Adam
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life Adam
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World—and Why Their Differences Matter Adam
Deep Ancestry: Inside The Genographic Project Adam
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey Adam
Tiki Modern Matt
The Book of Tiki Matt
Ready Player One Matt
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia Matt