Uses This

List to software tools that I use to get things done at work and in life.

Core Work:

• Adobe Suite

• Figma

• Sketch

• Final cut pro

• Webflow

• Screenflow

Would love to use more:

• GIMP

• Inkscape

Productivity:

• Vim — a tool for all occasions, everything goes into Vim first, for thoughts, notes, and code. Also the smartest tool I’ve ever used.

• Apple Mail — managing two email accounts, personal and work (Connects Proton Mail and Google Gsuite email)

• Business Email — Google G-suite (Google, easily the worst offenders of privacy, I’ll never use their mail app and will avoid using their search engine, don’t even ask me about Youtube)

• Proton Mail — Personal email, accessed via Apple Mail. (You also get calendar and storage space all encrypted)

• Google Docs (Again, I loathe everything Google, used only when collaboration is needed)

• MS office — By far the best productivity suite. You already know it’ll work. The only suite the allows for web, desktop, and mobile. After exploring the world of writing apps, everyone comes back to MS office.

• Github — Git(version control) must be a common man’s tool(not just for devs). It just solves lots of problem, just like that.

• Box — For sharing and storage, way better than Dropbox.

• Amazon Drive — Project photos backup and for files. (cheapest of all).

• Tmux - Terminal.

• Lyx - GUI for LaTex

Other Work Related Apps:

• Monodraw – For planning, workflow, flowchart, wireframes and mind mapping

• Filezilla – FTP

• Handbrake – Video converter

• VLC - video and audio player

• Clipy – clipboard manager

• Pixel Snap 2 - Measure distance and dimensions of anything on the screen. I don’t have the experience nor the eyeballing skill to align objects while designing.

Communication

• Telegram

• Zoom

• Google Hangouts

• IRCcloud

Work and Goal Tracking

• Freedom

• RescueTime

• Beeminder
  (in that order)

• Be Focussed Pro(Pomodoro)

• Apple Music(Already spent a lot of time with playlists, can’t move to Spotify)

Health

• Smashrun

• Sleep Cycle

Knowledge Management(what ever that means..)

• Roam Research – I don’t even know what the app does and what it helps to achieve. It is so buggy. So unreliable, some times you can’t even do the basic CRUD functions.

If any one wants to try Roam wait for two years at least, you won’t miss anything, right now they don’t even have a mobile app and 2FA. Please at all cost avoid following #RoamCult. (pure BS)

Security and Privacy

• Proton VPN - Always connected to it (They don’t log data and are under Swiss jurisdiction, comparatively safe than other providers)

• GPG Tools – GUI interface for GPG encryption . Encrypt email, text, files, folders, and hard disks. Signing photographs and files for verifying authenticity. (no one does it or no one cares)