It’s a blog trend!
Every once in a while, everyone wants to share the tools they are excited about.
When I saw Ankur Sethi’s post about it on Mastodon, I was in.
- Email: Outlook (because work) / Thunderbird on the laptop
- Calendar: Outlook (because work) / Thunderbird or a pinned google calendar tab
- Reminders: put it in the calendar.
- Chat: Beeper (because it handles everything) or Slack (because work/school)
- Photos: the iOS camera app
- Books: BookWyrm, Libby, CloudLibrary, Aldiko, and the Kobo app. But I only really use my Kobo.
- Mastodon: Ice Cubes
- RSS: newsblur
- saving things to read later: Pocket – which syncs to my Kobo
- Browser: Firefox
- Search: duck duck go.
- Music: play:Sub or Navidrome
- Podcasts: Overcast
- Audiobooks: I don’t. I don’t understand how the rest of you can. I’m glad you enjoy it.
- Photo Editing: Whatever iOS provides natively or I use the GIMP on my laptop.
- Todo: Vim and todo.markdown in project folders, Trello for family projects, otherwise, pick a time and put it in the calendar to get done.
- Grocery lists: a pad of paper
- Presentations: Vim and markdown -> pandoc -> reveal.js is incredible.
- Writing: Vim
- Code editing: Vim
- Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- Budgeting: Google Sheets
- Terminal: Whatever is handy, but tmux inside of it.
- Git: the git commandline. (or fugitive inside vim).
For more of the tools other folks use, Robb Knight is collecting these lists on App Defaults.