LUCKY13  DragThing - I'm spoiled without it!

Yes, the preference panels can be a bit daunting at first, but the effort will pay off. Once the program is set up to your liking, it can be a real timesaver. Launching apps, switching between them, opening files and folders...

The standard OS X dock has been shrunken and shoved off to the side.

One note: if you really take to DragThing and set it up just so, then you might want to make a backup copy of the app's preferences files for safe keeping.   
(Version 5.9.4)

LUCKY13  Clean - simple - fast -reliable.

For me, anything more is just a complication. myNotes is great for holding all manner of notes, thoughts, instructions, links and so forth. It offers good export and print options as well.

I'd really change only one thing: A single group that was dedicated to items sent from the System Services menu.  
(Version 1.5.5)