If you plan on doing anything online, you are going to need PlayCode. Sure, there is notepad and other free things...but $99 for a LTD, you can't go wrong.

Anytime I do a purchase on Appsumo, I read the reviews here and on the partners site. I conduct my due diligence and research any tool before purchasing, and it looked like it would be a great tool to have and use. I like tools that can speed up my work flow.

I've been online for a looong time -- since 1993-1994...I don't know everything, and we are all trying to keep up with the onslaught of new things. It is important to have a solid time-saving toolset to work with!

I always tell people, "You can dig a ditch with a pick and shovel, but I would rather use a tool like a backhoe digger to do the heavy lifting and speed up the work". I can then move on to other things.

BONUS NOTE: I have also found that I spend less time looking/searching for snips of code or work-arounds to a problem I might encounter while writing code or troubleshooting. Most of all - GONE are the days of installing and updating NPM packages!