Products & Software I use.

And other things I dig.

I've been asked a few times what software and tools I use to organise my personal and work life. Here’s a big list of all of my favorite stuff. I'll try post on how I use some of these.

Productivity

  • Todoist & Things 3

    I've lost count of how many different ToDo apps I've tried (Things 3, TickTick, ClickUp, Asana, Wunderlist...) but I always kept coming back to Things 3 and Todoist.
    Things 3 for its design and simplicity, which I use for personal life. Todoist for its natural language input and ability to create tasks from other apps like Claude desktop via MCP.

  • Raycast

    Crazy fast and crazy customisable. I've got a number of custom commands and scripts to make my day to day work that little bit quicker. It all adds up.

  • Obsidian

    For freeform notes, brainstorming, research that I'd like to also find the connections between, I use Obsidian.
    I have all my reading highlights from Kindle / Kobo etc synced into Obsidian via Readwise.

Learning

  • Kobo

    While I've bought 100+ books on Kindle, their recent decision to no longer allow downloading books for safekeeping while retaining their ability to remove titles from your device pushed me away, and toward Kobo, which I've loved.

  • Instapaper

    For the longest time I was a Pocket user, before moving over to Readwise, but ultimately couldn't justify paying money for a suped up read-it-later service, so went back to the OG, Instapaper.

  • PocketCasts

    Everyone needs a good podcast app, PocketCasts always just spoke to me. I dig the layout and feature set.
    Plus I was lucky enough to have purchased before they went to a subscription model.

Development tools

  • VS Code

    I still need to do some engineering now and then for legacy code on Elevio. When that's needed, VS Code is my goto. Previously it was Sublime for its speed.

  • TablePlus

    Used to use SequelPro, but needed something for Postgres DBs. TablePlus to the rescue.

Workstation

  • 14” MacBook Pro, M1 Max, 16GB RAM (2021)

    This thing is a beast, and it's just as portable as an Air. I love it.

  • Samsung S65U - 34 inch Curved Monitor

    I'd always been a dual screen person, but this is so much more practical in my mind. I can comfortably two apps side by side, and without any bezel between them. The way it hugs your eyes is pretty pleasing.

  • Keychron K3v2 Mechanical Keyboard

    It took me forever to get into the machanical keyboard world, 2022 actually. No idea why it took me so long, I dig the more tactile feel and the (light) clicky clack.