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My equipment
- Mac Mini Apple M2
- macOS + iOS (I only use Windows on work laptop)
Productivity
- Hammerspoon: automation for macOS with lua. I use it to run emacs-everywhere
- Raycast: a better launcher
- Rectangle: easily organize windows
Image processing
- Shottr: screenshot capture and blur text
- Picgo: image uploader
- ImageMagick: command-line tool to edit and convert images
Privacy
- Temp email: temporary email, include a temporary inbox
Media resources
- youtube-dl: command-line tool to download YouTube video
- cobalt: online YouTube downloader; can be downloaded as video or audio file
- Spark: smart email management on macOS and iOS. Terrible search though.
- mu4e: mu for Emacs
📝 Note-taking
- Org-roam: plain-text knowledge management on Emacs. Inspired by Roam Research.
✅ To-do/GTD
- Org-mode: organize your life in plain text in Emacs
- Goblin.tools: powered with AI to help break down tasks
- 爱时间: 24/7 time tracking app
📆 Calendar
- Google Calendar
- How long left: menu bar app to display the countdown of calendar events
- Itsycal: cute menu bar calendar
- Calendr: minimal menu bar calendar
📖 Reading/Audiobook
- Libby: library app
- Apple Books: iOS book reader
- BookPlayer: iOS app to play local audiobooks
- RSS Radio: iOS podcast app, highly customizable
- elfeed: RSS reader on Emacs
- Pocket: read-it-later app
- pocket-reader: Pocket’s Emacs plugin
- Raindrop: bookmark for useful website
- MyAnonaMouse: private tracker for audiobooks
- Z-lib
📜 Editing
- Emacs: the editor to rule them all
- Typora: minimalistic markdown editor
- RStudio: use exclusively for R
- Squirrel (rime): open source Chinese input
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance
- YNAB: You-Need-A-Budget, expensive but so worth it
- Portfolio Performance: open source investment portfolio tool
🔐 Password Management
- Safari password manager
- Password generator
💡 Blogging
- Quarto: blogging solution for my blog
- Quartz: site generator for my digital garden
- ox-hugo: convert org-mode notes to hugo-compatible markdown files
- Netlify: website deployment
- Cloudflare: domain provider and website deployment
- Spaceship: domain provider, one of the cheapest in the market
🪷 Meditation
- Insight Timer
- Plum Village
- Oak
🔧 Miscs
- IT Tools: handy tools for developers, including various converter
- Allinone.tools: convert files
- AnyList: grocery shopping list iOS app
Pixel art tools
- Collection: https://github.com/collections/pixel-art-tools
- Web App: https://www.piskelapp.com/p/create/sprite