Inspired by Uses This, the tools, services, and techniques I’m using to get things done.
Hardware
- Macbook Air M1- Work laptop which is quite the bang for the buck
- IPhone 13 Pro- Bought it for the LIDAR/Zoom lens and tbh dont regret it despite being expensive. Dont buy it from india ;)
- Galaxy buds pro - Cheapest pair of decent noise cancelling earphones I could find.
- Nexstand - Decent laptop stand at that price point
- All new Kindle - Decent for light reads here and there
Software
Laptop
- Amethyst - A tiling window manager for mac that doesnt suck
- 1Password - This password manager just blends in with the macos
- Arc - Trying it out
- Cron - Good Desktop client for a calender
- Emacs- The best programming environment out there, use it mostly for small side projects
- VSCode - Primary text editor
- WireGaurd - Fairly good client for connecting to my VPN
- Obsidian - Primary note taking application
Phone
- nPerf - To check for interenet coverage
- WireGaurd - Fairly good client for connecting to my VPN
- Measure - Love this app! Quite helpful in a lot of scenarios without running for a measuring tape while being fairly accurate.
- Cron - Trying the new mobile version
- Github - Decent for review issues, PRs but not that great browsing.
- Magicplan - Good app for creating/view floorplans. Extremely useful while analysing/comparing different houses
- Obsidian - Decent mobile client
- Notion - Bad UX, but still required in shared knowledge bases.
- HackerFeed - Amazing hackernews reader! Just love it.
- 1Password- Decent password manager with a great UI
- Snipd - Started using this to listen to podcasts it creates snips(short sections with relevent info) from the podcasts. Lovin it so far.
- Strava - For tracking steps and miles
- Matter - A meta reader, trying to see if it fits my bill
- Goodreads - Mostly use it on the phone to see what others are reading
- Spotify - Use it for UX/Discoverability of songs