Tools

Some daily drivers, others for occasional utility

Check out this to see what I pay for

I’ve spent a lot of time (much better spent elsewhere) on my picks here

I like to think these are the best picks given free/price + value + competition

Workflow #

• Helium (browser)
  • Optimized for  + extensions
  • tried Orion (WebKit-based but buggy ext support)
  • and before that: Zen (Gecko-based but mem heavy)
• Shortwave (smart email, just on iOS)
• Fantastical (calendar)
• Todoist (better todo list)
• Obsidian (.md based editor)
  • look at my .obsidian (similar to dotfiles)
• Buffer (clipboard manager)
• WARP (privacy for public wifi)
• Anarlog (meeting notes; Granola alt)
• Scira (deep web search agent)

Dev #

• cmux (terminal)
• OrbStack (quick VMs/docker)
• Zed (plain IDE)
• Orca (AI IDE)
• Tower (git history)
• WakaTime (time tracking; me)

Lifestyle #

• Apple Music (🫩)
• Endel (focus music)
• Origin (finances dash)
• Health
  • Hevy (lifting tracker)
  • Strava (cardio tracker)
  • SuppCo (supplement recs)
  • Yuka (food/cosmetics ratings)
  • Countoura (measurements)
• Transport
  • Transit (public transit ETAs)
  • GasBuddy (gas prices)
  • SpotAngels (street parking finder)
  • SpotHero (big city cheap parking)
  • Empower (cheap uber/lyft)

Miscellaneous #

unnecessary; *super worth imo

• *Swish (window tiling)
• *Hand Mirror (webcam peek)
• *CleanShot X (screenshot tool)
• Keka (archive/compression)
• Numi (NLP calculator)
• ColorSlurp (color picker)
• Phoenix Slides (SD card viewer)
• Amphetamine (caffeinate GUI)
• CleanMyKeyboard (disable keyboard)
• Emoogle (emoji picker)
• Mos (mouse configurator)
• Pearcleaner (filesys janitor)

Digital Subs #

I freemaxx except these:

Recurring:

• Apple Music ($7/m; use edu email)
• Scira Pro ($5/m; use SCIRASTUD discount)
• Claude Pro ($20/m)
• x.com ($8/m)

Once:

• Swish ($10/life; email for student promo)
• CleanShot X ($20/life; use edu email)

Termius, Tower free through GitHub Student