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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

📨 Mail §

• 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