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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
- ImageMagick: command-line tool to edit and convert images
- Squoosh: online image compressor
- Piclist: image uploader and manage tool for object storage
- Cloudflare R2: free 10GB object storage service
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. Terrible search though so I only use the iOS for light management
- 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 (I found it’s too generic though)
⏳ Time Tracking
- Time Golden: 24/7 time tracking app on iOS. High learning curve but very intuitive concept. I use it to do my time tracking activities
📆 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
- Libby: library app
- Apple Books: iOS book reader
- FreshRSS: a self-hosted feed aggregator
- inoreader: I use it as a read-it-later app
- Raindrop: bookmark for useful website
🎙️ Podcast and Audiobooks
- RSS Radio: iOS podcast app, highly customizable
- BookPlayer: iOS app to play local audiobooks
📜 Editing/IDE
- Emacs: the editor to rule them all
- Typora: minimalistic markdown editor
- RStudio: use exclusively for R
- Squirrel (rime): open source Chinese input
- Raw HTML Table Editor: the HTML table editor for markdown
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance
- YNAB: You-Need-A-Budget, expensive but so worth it
- Actual Budget: a self-hosted alternative to YNAB. I switched from YNAB to Actual recently due to YNAB’s bank sync issues and it’s working very well
- Portfolio Performance: open source investment portfolio tool
🔐 Password Management
- Bitwarden
- Safari password manager
- Password generator
💡 Blogging
- Quarto: blogging solution for my main blog
- Quartz: site generator for this digital garden
- ox-hugo: convert org-mode notes to hugo-compatible markdown files
- Netlify: website deployment
- Cloudflare: domain provider, website deployment and I also use its R2 object storage to store images
- Spaceship: domain provider, one of the cheapest in the market
🪷 Meditation
- Oak: a minimalist meditation timer
- Mala bead necklace I made
🔧 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