my life Tech Stack

A curated list of all my favourite apps, tools, websites and resources.

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🤓 Personal Knowledge Management

Instapaper
Use it for time-shifting your content consumption.
One of the most popular read-later apps. With one click, it lets you save any interesting articles, videos, recipes or whatever else you come across while browsing the internet.

Readwise
Use it for getting the most out of what you read.
Collect all your notes in one central place. Import all highlights from your favourite reading platforms, add notes and tags, and export to your note-taking tool of choice.

Readwise sends you a daily email with a selection of your ebooks and articles highlights. Reading and highlighting is great, but what’s the point if you never look at those highlights again? The idea is that as you continue to review your highlights, you’ll recall more and grow your knowledge over time. It’s the compound effect for knowledge.

Roam Research
Use it for note-taking and storing.
Note taking tool designed for networked thought. Use it to collate all your notes and highlights, own ideas and writing.

You can read my detailed post on how I use Notion and Roam for Personal Knowledge Management here.

Dropbox
Use it for digital file storage.
Digital filing system for organising all your admin in one central, cloud-based place. My files are organised using the PARA method - read more about that here.


🧨 Productivity

Notion
Use it for Task, Project and Content Management.
The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis and databases.

You can read my detailed post on how I use Notion and Roam for Personal Knowledge Management here.

Freedom
Use it to block websites, apps or the entire Internet.
A highly customisable website blocker that you can use to block specific websites or the entire internet, for both computers and phone.

Done
Use it for quick and easy habit tracking.
With its colourful and simple interface, it’s quick and frictionless to use and see your progress at a glance.

Cleanshot X (Mac only)
Use it for frictionless screen-recording.
It's great for taking screenshots, with the option to instantly save, copy or drag and drop the screenshot to other apps. Grabrab an area, fullscreen, window or scrolling capture, set a timer, make GIFs etc.

Alfred (Mac only)
Use it for customising actions for your MacOS
Favourite function: Clipboard History.
This function allows you to quickly locate any text, image or file you copied earlier and paste it again. You can also create your own snippets and type a short abbreviation to auto-expand them into a full-text snippet, saving yourself hours of typing in the long run. This is great for anyone who writes a lot— just think of certain emails where you often say the same thing or your CTA at the end of an article.

Loom
Use it for screen recordings and video messages
Loom is a video messaging tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos. You can record your video, microphone, and desktop simultaneously. Works great to quickly communicate, explain, share feedback without needing to jump on a call.


✍️ Writing

Apple Notes
Use it for writing down thoughts and ideas
Quickly accessible tool for writing own daily thoughts and notes

Bear
Use it for distraction-free long-form journaling.
Beautiful and simple interface for journaling and writing.

DayOne
Use it for quick and easy idea capture, digital diary
Best app for digital journaling. Every day you get a new page, where you can include text as well as video, images, audio.

Grammarly
Use it for managing your grammar
Cloud-based writing assistant that reviews spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, engagement and delivery mistakes in real-time - across all your writing platforms (except for Word).

Medium
Use it for publishing your writing
Popular publishing platform for writers of all levels. Sign up to the Medium Partner Program to start earning money from your writing, even as a complete beginner.


📈 Self-development

Waking up
Use it for daily meditation
Highly practical meditation app, with a focus on the science behind meditation and consciousness. Developed by Sam Harris, neuroscientist and philosopher.


🔐 security

1Password
Use it for managing passwords and sensitive information
As we move more and more of our lives online, it is worth investing in a system where you need 1 single password that protects all your other passwords and important information, with easy and quick access.


🤳 daily Life management

AnyList
App to easily create and share shopping lists with friends and family.
TooGoodToGo
Connect with restaurants and stores in your area to pick up 'Magic bags', bags of unsold surplus food that would otherwise go to waste.
Tricount
Easily organise expenses with friends and family.

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