Optimism for Mental Health
An Action Plan for Depression, Bipolar and Stress Management
Get the WEB APP here at a ZOT low price!

Normally: $39.95

ZOT Price: $19.95

Overview

Optimism is a mood charting application for helping you understand and improve your mental health. It is used by people recovering from depression, bipolar and other illnesses, for managing stress, and as a general self-help tool. By monitoring your day to day life it helps you work out the negative influences that you need to avoid, early warning signs that your health is deteriorating, and the inputs or activities that benefit you most.

Optimism helps you recognize patterns in your life. By taking a couple of minutes each day to update the app you can quickly build a picture of what is affecting your mental health, positive and negative. All fields can be changed, making it very specific to your own circumstances.

Your records can be viewed in reports and charts by date range. These allow you to observe changes in your health over time, detect the causes, and observe the benefits of different health strategies. When the time comes to meet with your doctor or mental health provider, you can print out your records and take them with you. Your doctor will appreciate the extra insight that Optimism provides!

A free iPhone app is available, to provide a convenient method of data entry and later syncing with the software.

User Feedback:

This software is invaluable for understanding the factors that can help my depression and lead to a healthier lifestyle. Two thumbs up and 5 stars!
Kevin, 26 Jan 2010

Optimism has been the program I’ve been searching for for years. It’s clean uncluttered interface, customisability and combination of both charts and written reports are exactly the tools I need as a bipolar sufferer to map my moods and accurately record my mental states over time. I’d recommend it to any sufferer of a mood disorder who seeks another tool to help themselves and their healthcare providers better understand the evolution of their illness over time.
Padraig, 7 Aug 2010

This is one of the best programs I have ever used. I suffer from a mental Illness and this gives me a look at how I react on different days… thank you very much for creating something that is so useful for me and my condition.
Renee, 28 Dec 2009

FAQs:

What is the difference between the software and the web app (see the additional offer page)?

The web and desktop versions are functionally the same, and we are developing them to be very similar going forward. There is an advantage with the web app in that you can access it from any computer whereas with the desktop version you are restricted to one computer or otherwise need to synchronize between computers (e.g. desktop and laptop). If you decide to use the iPhone/iPod app then there is an extra step for synching the iPhone to the software because the data needs to be downloaded from the online database. Nothing extra needs to be done for the web app.

What is your upgrade policy?
All software and web app upgrades are free. That way all users can enjoy the latest improvements.

Can I run the software on more than one computer?
Yes. The software is licensed on a per person, not per computer basis. You can run the software on multiple computers, but two people can’t use the same license. The database is the same in the Windows version. If you are sufficiently unlucky that you have to use Windows as well as Mac you can load the software onto both and synchronize between them. The web app requires a separate license (see the additional offer page).

What are your current development plans?
We are releasing an online phone interface very soon, so anyone with a mobile phone browser will be able to add records from their phone and sync later. We are adding more flexibility to the software for user specific measurements e.g. medications, supplements, food, weather, time of sleep, menstrual cycle, medical results, or any other custom requirements. Later in the year we will be making the charting more flexible, to display extra detail as determined by the user.

Try, Buy, and/or Learn more about the Web App here…

System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.2 – 10.6, PPC and Intel.

Click to Developer’s Site for more info.

MacBreakZ
Your Personal Ergonomic Assistant
This Weekend’s ZOT? A world-wide 1.0 Release ZOT! Vitamin-R
From the makers of MacBreakZ, A Better Finder Rename, and others… Scroll down for more info.
come back this weekend for an Amazing deal!

Normally: $29.95

ZOT Price: $14.95

MacBreakZ is a sophisticated Personal Ergonomic Assistant designed to promote healthy and productive computer use.

*Activity Monitor only knows that you are pressing a key, but not which key is pressed and it knows that you are moving your mouse but not where.

System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.4 or later. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Compatible

For more information, visit the official MacBreakZ website.

This weekend’s ZOT?
April 17th and 18th

A worldwide release of Vitamin-R

Vitamin-R is a collection of tools and techniques designed to overcome the biggest productivity challenges facing today’s new caste of creative professionals: managing attention and maintaining motivation.

It complements the task capturing and organizing features of modern to-do list managers, by forcing you to concentrate fully on one task a time and keeping distractions at bay.

Vitamin-R smoothes the creative process by rejecting the dusty business book notion of self discipline and fully embracing the way our brains are truly wired.

macZOT will also feature an extensive interview with developer Frank Reiff about Vitamin-R this weekend. Here’s an excerpt –

…I found myself doing my GTD weekly
review and caught myself thinking “Is this not just extra work?” and “Shouldn’t I be
doing something productive instead?”.
Furthermore, after many years of being a part-time Indie Mac developer, I went full-
time when my son, Aiden, was born and promptly found that concentrating on what
you are doing is much easier when you are not sleep deprived; things didn’t
become any easier when my daughter Cailin was born and I now have two children
under 4 at home.
It was time to change the way I was working. In the search for solutions, I did
what every former Academic will do, I started reading. Along the way, I came
across lots of useful stuff and more than a few ideas that have gone well over their
sell-by-date.
Vitamin-R is my distillation of everything I’ve learned from the usual business
literature (Hi, David!), from my own experimentations and from more esoteric
sources, especially recent research in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience.
I’ve found that reading these books fills my head with great ideas on how to
improve the way I work, but it all goes overboard when I start working and I find
myself falling back on old habits.
Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow) introduced me to the idea that if you want to become
truly productive, you have to create a system where doing the easy thing is the
same as doing the right thing.
So to answer your question: Vitamin-R tries to satisfy the need to create a
productivity system where doing the easy thing is also doing the right thing.

Join us this weekend to read the full interview.

Learn more about Vitamin-R here…

myDiary
It’s your life. It’s your journal.

Normally: $20.00

ZOT Price: $10.00

myDiary is a clear and easy-to-use ‘journaling application’
with some cutting-edge functions like an integrated video diary, image and file management. myDiary is a ‘Staff Pick’ at apple.com.

Today’s diaries are more than text. myDiary is especially made to record your day in pictures, movies and files. Today’s digital world is complicated and stressful. There is no gain in dealing with excessively complicated programs.

All entries are encrypted and can be protected with a password.

myDiary uses one elegant window and every important function is just one click away. If you create a new entry, record a movie with your iSight camera, take a desktop picture or add a file via drag&drop – myDiary is always ready, and integrates seamlessly in your Mac life.

Key features

System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.5 or later. 5.5 MB

Click to Developer’s Site for more info.

Life Manager Pro
Organizer software to get things done.

Special Offer this weekend – The Mac Sale 3 Bundle.
Over $500 in Software for $49.99! – Click here…

Normally: $49.00

ZOT Price: $24.50

Life Manager Pro is the Solution to Get Things Done

Life Manager Pro is a personal organizer that includes several modules that connect and relate to each other to from a comprehensive system to manage your life.

Life Manager Pro integrates with the Mac Address Book and iCal and syncs with the iPhone or iTouch.

System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.4.11 or later. Snow Leopard Ready.

For more information go to http://maclifemanager.com

SonicMood v4.9.6.1
Create The Perfect Mood for the New Year!
SonicMood is Mood enhancing software that features Natural Sounds with Sensual Harmonies
Awesome Soccer Special Offer…

Normally: $12.95

ZOT Price: $6.39

SonicMood comes with 31 pre-defined Moods AND you can create your own! Each Mood is original and never repeats – you won’t find anything like this on a CD…

SonicMood includes nature sounds like rain, thunder, birds, and more. You can add your own, too. Up to 32 AIFF, MP3, MP4, etc., files can be played together with the sounds in each Mood. The “Mood Editor” allows for complete customization and creation of Moods. It’s “Ambient Music” at its best.

SonicMood is a Universal Binary and compatible with Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard (10.3.9 thru 10.6.x). It features an “iTunes-like” look and familiar operation.

“As much as I like Pzizz and its approach, I find myself going to SonicMood more and more since it can do so much more.”

“Only those without a soul will fail to appreciate how this little gem can transform one’s immediate environment into a veritable Garden of Paradise. It’s absolutely breathtaking!

At $10, it’s an absolute bargain. Definitely worth two or three times that price. Been using it for years, now, and it’s one of the very few software programs that has definitely enhanced the quality of my life.”

“This outstandingly beautiful creation is a true balm for the soul. It generates soothing, centering, healing soundscapes that will enhance the quality of your life.

The developer must, indeed, be in touch with the Source of all Creation, for Sonic Moods is a true gift from On High. It glistens like a diamond lotus in the morning sun.

While Sonic Moods has been with us for a while, if you’ve never come across it before consider yourself blessed, for it is a true find.

This wonderful developer is always seeking ways to make it better and better, and at the paltry sum of $10, it is priceless. I humbly bow before this very gifted soul.”

“Truly the best relaxation software around. I’ve used it through a few versions and have never been disappointed that I registered it. I’ve had communications with the author and he’s been responsive and quick to reply. While the software works ‘out of the box’ it has a tremendous ability for customization to one’s personal tastes. Truly a great app and well worth the price!”

“Rulle Rusk here. Last year I made some comment about this app being pointless. Since then my girlfriend has left me, i lost my job and my dog died. I have moved to Miami Beach and live a quiet, tranquil on the beach with SonicMood running around the clock.

I was wrong. My apologies.”

For more information, visit the
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Special Offer!
Jan 2nd and 3rd

Awesome Soccer

Awesome Soccer takes it’s inspiration from the genre defining soccer games of the last decade, blasting them into the 21st Century with the graphical realism, features and polish that today’s modern gamer demands.

TRY, BUY, and Learn more about Awesome Soccer here…

Family
Beautiful family trees on your Mac

Normally: $29.00

ZOT Price: $10.95

Family is a genealogy application for Mac OS X that allows you to map out your family tree visually, associating images and files with each person and telling each person’s story.

Nov 23

Thinking Home

Audio/Music/Musicians, Life Enhancement/Fitness, System Enhancements, Utilities/Miscellaneous 34 Comments »

	Thinking Home The Easiest Way to a Smarter Home Normally: $79.00 ZOT Price: $39.50
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You don’t need a Bill Gates budget to make your home interactive! Mac users can operate gadgets using their voice; or make lighting turn off when a room is empty for a while; or schedule your electric blanket to warm your bed.

For energy savings, security and convenience, Thinking Home is your solution. Having lights turn off automatically is just one way to save energy. Turning on sidewalk lighting as someone approaches saves energy and adds a little security, too. The options are endless!

You can schedule your electric blanket to turn on an hour before bedtime. This allows you to lower the thermostat at night while you’re in a warm, comfy bed.

Something like that can be stored in a controller, so you can turn off your Mac. You can also use your Mac for smarter actions 24-7 and make use of Mac-only things like speech, scripts, email, instant messaging and web access.

Highlights of the Newest Features

Schedule Sets  When going away on vacation, many people want a different schedule to be used. Instead of turning on the coffee maker, you may want a couple of lights turning on randomly for a more secure, lived-in look. Schedule Sets provide this convenience via a simple popup menu in the Schedules window.

1-Wire  Affordable temperature monitoring is just one of the benefits that 1-Wire delivers. It’s easier than ever to check the temperature of the water heater, greenhouse, wine cellar, solar panels or the outdoors.

Device Status  Now you can keep tabs on the status of each device or sensor and use it in a smarter, more energy-efficient home.

Search Fields  With more than 130 models of gadgets to choose from, the search field in the Gadget Guide makes it a snap to quickly find what you’re looking for. You’ll be amazed at how well it works — it practically reads your mind. It’s also very handy in the Schedules window, to narrow down your numerous events to just those involving a particular device, time or action.

And So Much More…

Built-in Voice Commands  You say “Turn on the living room lamp.” and it does!

Setup Assistant  Want help to get started? The Setup Assistant walks you through the steps.

Gadget Guide   This is the place to see what’s available and where to shop for the best deals.

Three Standards  INSTEON, X-10 and now 1-Wire are the technologies for your home automation solutions.

Events and Responders   Scheduled events and smart responders can operate gadgets, open web pages, play audio, all kinds of actions to make your home interact the way you want it to.

Desktop Remote   This innovation operates your gadgets directly from the Finder. You don’t even have to open Thinking Home to quickly turn off that fan.

Sherlock   For users of Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier, the Sherlock plug-in is a great way to find answers in home automation forums, wiki’s and newsgroups.

Web Access   Designed to fit seamlessly with Apple’s built-in Personal Web Sharing, Thinking Home makes your gadgets available to you on the web.

Click to Developer’s Site for more info.

Click to macZOT for more detailed info about today’s ZOT!

Operating System Requirements:

• Mac OS 10.3.9 – 10.6.2+

Additional Requirements:

• Non-USB controller models require a USB-serial adapter.
• The Sherlock feature is available on Mac OS 10.4 and earlier.

Oct 16

Paperless

Business/Personal Finance, GTD/Getting things done, Internet Utilities, Life Enhancement/Fitness, Organization, System Enhancements 14 Comments »

	Paperless Use Paperless to Scan, Store & Manage your Receipts and Documents! Normally: $49.95 ZOT Price: $24.97
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One of the only eco-friendly software packages for Mac OS X, Paperless is software that helps you cut through the clutter. The built-in search functionality even lets you find and organize receipts and documents into Smart Collections. Create order and peace of mind. With Paperless, you can create a database for just about everything, storing all sorts of data and documents. From all those product manuals for your tools hanging in your basement to a database of your 2nd grader’s pictures and all the other cool stuff she brings home from school. Store and organize it all, digitally, safely, and systematically. Paperless will give you the edge on organization: Quickly recognizes and categorizes information using Optical Character Recognition technology Organize your documents into Smart Collections Track expenses for taxes, medical accounts or other purposes Export the text content of your receipts as a .csv for Microsoft Excel® or .qif for Intuit’s Quicken® Perfect for keeping track of your back-to-school and holiday spending! System requirements Mac OS X 10.5.4 or later (including Snow Leopard) is recommended for full use of all the features. TWAIN compliant scanner or Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M or S300M, Pentax DS Mobile 600 scanner (recommended) Click to Developer’s Site for more info.

Oct 11

Master Key – Typing Tutor

Educational/Learning, Journaling/Writing, Life Enhancement/Fitness, Utilities/Miscellaneous 4 Comments »

	Master Key – Typing Tutor Take your typing to the speed of thought Normally: $18.00 ZOT Price: $9.99
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Whether you’re keeping up with the social networking, doing school work, writing for a blog or wikipedia, or just working with a lot of email, most communication is still done in writing. And nearly everywhere it is entered by keyboard. Typing is a life skill today. When you’re fast and accurate, typing doesn’t have to get in the way of the rest of life. Learn to type on the standard QWERTY keyboard, or learn a purportedly more efficient and less stressful key layout such as Dvorak, or Colemak. The French AZERTY and German QWERTZ are all taught in progressive lessons. Improve your typing skills using our drills or any of your own plain text files. Track your mastery progress and then play the ParaTyper game to keep things varied and interesting so you’ll want to go back to the drills and progress well past 40 words per minute. Master Key is the real Mac citizen using a standard Mac interface. It allows you to type continuously from line to line just like you need to naturally. You also get to see your typing speed in the heads up display without looking away from what you’re typing. Nearly 10 years of free updates so far Made for schools so it supports Multiple-users very well Do timed or fixed-length drills or play the ParaTyper game Paginates large text files, ebooks (Project Gutenberg) so you can type a book’s worth. Create your own drills for specific key vocabulary with a special filtering paste in the Drill Editor Even small but important details are built-in such as the ability to pause your drills to scratch your nose, drink some coffee, or do whatever you need to do. Minimum requirements: Any Mac that can run 10.3, although older versions for classic Macs are available too. Click to Developer’s Site for more info. ParaTyper Game Drill selection and progress overview Lots of stats and progress towards mastery in the history window

Sep 25

MacGourmet Deluxe

Life Enhancement/Fitness, Organization, Utilities/Miscellaneous 5 Comments »

	MacGourmet Deluxe Plan. Cook. Enjoy. – Shopping is now a breeze! Normally: $49.95 ZOT Price: $24.97
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You organize your digital photos and make playlists of your music. Now, with MacGourmet Deluxe, you can bring your recipe collection into the digital age. Easily create, edit, and share your recipes; organize your cooking and wine notes; plan meals, even create and print your own cookbook! Plus! – Never again will you have to ask yourself, “Now, where did I get those ancho chilis the last time I needed them?” With the Shopping List feature in MacGourmet Deluxe – from your favorite store down to the aisle – you will always know where to ?nd your ingredients. Whether you are planning that special dinner party or your meals for an entire week, creating your shopping list can be a breeze. Click here for a Video Tour… The Shopping List as shown from the Mealplan feature MacGourmet Deluxe is rich with all the advantages that every cook can use: Create recipes to exchange through email or print a traditional recipe card Build, print and share your own cookbook Calculate the nutritional content of your recipes Make your meal plans and sync them with iCal Easily add to your recipe collection from your favorite web site with either the Text Clipping or Recipe Import Assistant feature Import your ?les that have been saved in MasterCook, MasterCook Mac, Meal-Master, CookWare Deluxe, Cook"n text, RecipeML, and Yum XML formats System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.4 or later. (including Snow Leopard) Click to Developer’s Site for more info.