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Tools

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Tech

Development

  • Zed – I use this editor now more often than Neovim
  • Neovim – with LazyVim as a plugin manager
  • Ghostty – terminal emulator
  • Tmux – terminal multiplexer
  • LazyGit – terminal Git client
  • Claude Code – Agentic coding with Anthropic’s models
  • Codex – Agentic coding with OpenAI’s models
  • OpenCode – Fantastic open-source TUI with access to nearly all providers and models
  • Pi Agent – Still learning it, but it is starting to become my favorite coding agent; a pity Anthropic disallows using their subscription with external agents

Design

  • Affinity – Designer, Photo, and Publisher
  • Procreate
  • Eagle – storing design assets, like images, videos, fonts, and illustrations; I use it every day and have over 50,000 assets saved.
  • Typeface – font manager

Research & Writing

  • Obsidian – my favorite note-taking app. I use it for all my 7,000+ notes. I pay for the encrypted Sync service to have a backup and to support the developers.
  • iA Writer
  • DEVONthink – store documents and reference material
  • Inoreader – my RSS service. From there, I transfer everything I starred automatically (with a self-hosted n8n) to Raindrop.io.
  • Raindrop.io – my favorite app to save any bookmark and to find anything again in seconds. I have more than 30,000 bookmarks.
  • Readwise Reader – read articles, ebooks, podcasts, 𝕏 posts, watch YouTube videos with AI enhanced transcription, or use the AI voice feature to listen to articles. When I highlight something, it’s automatically saved to Readwise.
  • Readwise - review all my highlights from books, articles, and notes. I love the daily review and the flashcards.

Other

I use many extra tools, too many to name them all. You can read a longer article about all the apps, tools & services I use.

  • Raycast – Raycast Pro is my most-used app, with its AI feature. I love the app and use it every day. I pay for the Pro version to get access to a lot of different AI models, like ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and many others. I wrote a long article about how I use Raycast. I also use the iOS and iPad versions.
  • Things – my to-do app for years; I appreciate its simplicity and design.
  • Brave Browser – I’m a fan of Brave for its security, privacy, and built-in ad-blocking. I used many other browsers, but Brave is just the best for me. Brave Search is my default search engine.
  • Proton Unlimited - Proton Mail, Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, Proton VPN, Proton Wallet, and Proton Pass.
  • Tailscale – Create a VPN network for my home and devices
  • Anki – I use it to learn Japanese vocabulary and poems
  • Yoink – store files temporarily. It’s a good tool to drag and drop files between apps.
  • Karabiner-Elements – remap keys on my keyboards. I use it to remap the Caps Lock key to the Escape key, to use Vim keybindings in nearly every app, and to type the German Umlauts with a single key press.