I often wish other people kept a list of all the tools they’re currently using for daily work, so here’s mine.
Physical
- Desktop: iMac 24"
- Phone: iPhone 13 mini
- Tablet: iPad Air M1
- Health tracking: Oura Heritage
- Audio interface: Audient iD14
- Headphones: Sennheiser HD 202 II
- Microphone: RØDE Procaster
- Mic activator: Triton Fethead
- Watch: Slow Jo 19
Mac
- Audio editing: Logic Pro (favourite plugins: Greg Wells VoiceCentric, L2 Ultramaximizer, NS1, Playlist Rider and WLM Plus by Waves, RX 9 by iZotope)
- Backups: Time Machine and Backblaze
- Calculator: Soulver 3
- Clipboard management: Paste
- File management: Hazel
- Image editing: Pixelmator Pro
- Large Language Models: MacGPT
- Reference management: Zotero
- Synchronised files: CloudMounter
- Window management: Mosaic
Phone / Tablet
- Fun: Magic: The Gathering Arena
- Gardening: Planta
- Hiking: Wikiloc
- Life logging: Life cycle
- Navigation: Maps
- Messaging: WhatsApp (though I really prefer any other tool not made by Meta)
- Podcasts: Overcast
- Quotes: Quotebook
- Recipe manager: Mela
- Social: Micro.blog
Services
These are either pure services, or apps that I use across several platforms and didn’t want to include in multiple lists above.
- Accounting: Quipu
- Appointment scheduling: Acuity
- Blogging: Micro.blog
- Browser: Safari
- Calendar: Calendar
- Delivery tracking: Parcel
- Email client: Mail
- Habit commitment: Beeminder
- Mind mapping: Mindnode
- Music streaming: Apple Music
- Newsletters to RSS: Kill the Newsletter!
- Notes & Journal: Tana
- Password manager: iCloud Keychain
- Personal finance: You Need A Budget
- Podcast hosting: Acast
- Podcast recording: Zencastr
- Podcast transcriptions and AI texts: Swell
- Process automation: Zapier and Shortcuts
- Project management: Basecamp
- RSS: Reeder
- Search: Duck Duck Go
- Syncing files: iCloud
- Task manager: Tana (my notes app of choice)
- Text editor: Byword
- Traveling: Tripsy
- Videoconference: Zoom
- Web hosting: Squarespace
Note: some of the links above a referral links
Updated 2023-11-15
