This toolkit is list of my favorites for productivity. When I’m working on external projects, I use the tools required for that project and adapt to already existing/chosen tools.
Principles:
- Fast software (+key bindings)
- Well designed
- Low cost
- Local tools
- Open formats
- Pixel-level zoom and accuracy in design tools
Getting organized
- Notes: Obsidian (private docs), Notion (shared docs)
- Kanban & tasks: Linear
- Code repos: Github (or custom hosting)
- Finance: Google sheets (+ custom tools)
- Messaging/IM: Based on team
- Calls: Zoom
- Calendar: Google Cal
Design
- UI/UX: Figma
- Pixels: Pixelmator Pro, Sketch
- Presentations: Pitch
- Prototypes: Figma + custom apps
- Whiteboarding: Tldraw
Tech
- OS: Mac, Linux (ubuntu, debian, many etc..)
- Editor: Nvim, Cursor, Zed
- Terminal: Ghostty, Warp
- Launcher: Raycast
- Virtualization: VMWare
- Cloud: AWS, GCP, DO etc. based on project
AI Tools (rapidly changing and evolving!)
- AI chat: Claude Sonnet 3.5 (via custom editor)
- AI code: Claude Sonnet 3.5 + other models
- AI completions: SuperMaven (acquired by Cursor)
- AI search: Perplexity Pro
- AI voice: SuperWhisper
- AI images: local ComfyUI setup + other custom pipelines
Also lot of other AI tools (audio, note taking, capture, summarization etc), but these above are the ones I’m using most often.