Is there a relatively straight forward way to make a note of all applications/programs installed on my mac for future reference? Is there a relatively straight forward way to make a note of all applications/programs installed on my mac for future reference, without having to note down each application one by one via word etc
Open /Applications in the Finder
Press Cmd-A followed by Cmd-C
Switch to Pages/Word/TextEdit/etc.
Create a new document and press Cmd-V


Repeat for sub-folders of /Applications and any other place (~/Applications maybe) where you have installed applications.