The things I use on a day-to-day basis. See https://uses.tech/ for more!

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For more on my development environment, you should take a look at my dotfiles repo.

https://github.com/michaelfromyeg/dotfiles

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Hardware

• A Surface Book 3, as my main driver

Software

• Firefox, and occasionally Chrome
  • with extensions like uBlock Origin
• Notion, for note-taking, budgeting, task-tracking, publishing content, managing my newsletter, a personal CRM, and more…
  • I used to use: Todoist (for tasks) Joplin, Obsidian, OneNote (for notes)
• Notion Calendar, a nicer version of Google Calendar
• Beeper, an all-in-one texting platform (for Instagram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.)
• Thunderbird, for e-mail
  • (soon to be Notion Mail!)
• KeePass, an open-source password manager
  • (with data saved in Dropbox)
• Claude, and sometimes ChatGPT
• Wallabagger, for saving articles
  • I could self-host this, but I don’t
• Dropbox, for syncing files
• Spotify, for music
• Pocket Casts, for podcasts
  • (I’m grandfathered in as a lifetime member)
• LibreOffice, an open-source alternative to Microsoft Office
• Calibre for managing my e-book library