My tool stack

This post is a personal note to jot down all the tools I use for productivity. I recently had to configure 2 laptops in a week with all of them and it was quite a pain to remember them all, so here we go for the record.

• VSCode with Settings Sync on, settings saved in Github
• Choosy (licensed) with the Notion-Figma-Chrome rules, set up as default browser, disabling the browser prompt step
• Little Snitch + Micro Snitch (licensed) for firewalling
• Express VPN (licensed) for VPN
• CleanMyMac (licensed, 1 key per machine) for keeping things clean and fast
• Notion desktop app
• Slack desktop app
• Figma desktop app
• Superhuman desktop app
• 1Password desktop app and Chrome extension
• Dropbox for documents storage across machines (also installed on iPhone)
• Obsidian, using Dropbox as Vault location
• iWriter Pro to edit Obsidian markdown files on iPhone (because Obsidian iOS app can only sync with iCloud, but I use Obsidian across both pro and personal laptops which have different iCloud accounts)
• iTerm2 for terminal, with Menlo for Powerline font and these settings
• Oh My Zsh with Solarized Theme and this .zshrc file (private gist)
• Alfred (licensed), saving settings in Dropbox, enabling the saving of clipboard text for up to 7 days, enabling searching and opening of Chrome bookmarks by default, with Open with VSCode workflow (not in synced settings because depends on machine folders structure)
• Sketch (licensed) to create the artworks for my RM-RF newsletter
• Docker desktop
• Postgres app, just to make things simpler
• Hemingway App Pro, for sharper writing
• Shottr, for really nice screenshots

If you have got questions about this stack or want to share cool tricks with these tools, don't hesitate to ping me on Twitter.