It’s the end of the year and we’re all encountering more lists than we can count. We’re looking back and aggregating then distilling the best ____ of 2013. Videos, articles, apps, magazine covers, you name it. Well, here is my list of the best lists.
* [YouTube’s top Trending Videos of 2013](http://www.youtube.com/user/theyearinreview): Fact: the fewer of these you recognize, the more productive you were in 2013.
* [Pocket’s list of most-shared/saved articles](http://getpocket.com/hits/awards/2013/): How many of these saved articles were actually *read*? (Asking for a friend.)
* [Federico Viticci’s Must-Have Apps](http://www.macstories.net/linked/my-must-have-apps-2013-edition/): 115 apps listed across three articles, with a total cost of $438.38 to outfit your iPad, iPhone, and Mac.
* [Kottke’s list of best photo lists](http://kottke.org/13/12/the-best-photos-of-2013): [This picture](http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/12/2013-the-year-in-photos-january-april/100642/#img01) has popped up in more than one of the lists of the year’s best photos.
* [Time’s list of 10 best movies](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/04/arts-and-entertainment/slide/top-10-best-movies/): I’ve only seen a few of these, but I concur that *Gravity* (in IMAX 3D) was the best film of the year. And the BBC answers your nagging question of [how long the runway is](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-23005848) at the end of *Furious 6*.
* [The Verge’s favorite 50 people of 2013](http://www.theverge.com/a/the-verge-50/intro): Their list of who they consider to be this year’s dreamers, informers, noisemakers, entertainers, world changers, old guard, and the next wave.
* [Tools and Toys Favorite things](http://toolsandtoys.net/favorite-things-2013-edition/): One of the only lists where you’ll find a USB bike lamp, an iPad text editor, and a badger hair shaving brush together.
* [The Macworld Eddys](http://www.macworld.com/article/2071020/macworld-editors-choice-awards-the-best-products-of-2013.html?page=2): Some great apps here, well-deserving of the Eddy.
* [Best movie posters of 2013](http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-best-movie-posters-of-2013): A lot of these are great designs, and curiously (or perhaps not so much), almost none of them are for movies of Holywood blockbusters.
* [The Sweet Setup’s favorite games](http://thesweetsetup.com/articles/favorite-games/): Some of these games aren’t from 2013, but who’s counting?
* My [iPad](http://shawnblanc.net/2013/12/my-ipad-app-playlist-constraint-and-creativity/) and [iPhone](http://shawnblanc.net/2013/12/my-iphone-app-playlist/) app playlists: Somewhere between a comprehensive list of all my “must have” apps, and a concise list of what’s on my Home screens.
* [Kottke’s List of the Best book cover lists of 2013](http://kottke.org/13/12/the-best-book-covers-movie-posters-and-magazine-covers-of-2013): Yes, another Kottke list of lists, but a list of list is decidedly meta, and what’s more meta than listing a list of lists in a list of lists?
* [*Time’s* Year in Pictures](http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/year-in-pictures/): So many magnificent, sober, and fun images from events around the world.