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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

📨 Mail

  • 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

📆 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

💡 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