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.

# Tools

My tool stack

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