My Workflow

Life

Rules - Lessons learned encoded as rules.
Goals - Gives focus and direction.
Processes - Streamlines doing some things.

Code

VS Code - Main editor. Write mostly Go & TS.
Sublime Text - Edit markdown (wiki, articles).
Vim - Edit my Karabiner config with it.
Xcode - Swift/SwiftUI.

Tasks

2Do - Personal tasks. Every task is actionable, tagged appropriately and sorted by priority.
GitHub - Issues/PRs for projects I care about.

Plan

Fantastical - Plan meetings & events.
Calendly - Sharing my availability for efficient event arrangement.

Video

Hangouts, Zoom or Discord (server chats)

Knowledge index

Wiki - Everything I know written out and quickly searched with My Mind.
Articles - Long form writing.
Code Snippets - Useful code snippets, commands.
Curated lists
Looking back - Public log of things I made & thought about. Reflect on the past to grow.

Search

Alfred - Search everything with it.
Alfred My Mind - Search my entire corpus of useful to me references. Extension of my brain.
Safari - Only bookmark personal links which I search with Safari Assistant.

Photos

Apple Photos - My personal photo/video/memories collection. Includes other media files (art/references/..) sorted by folder. Use Slidebox to quickly delete or sort photos into albums.

macOS/iOS

macOS - macOS apps/tools I use.
iOS - iOS apps/tools I use.

Track

Tracking - Track many things for reference.
Things I own - Track items I own & use.

News & Learning

Staying on top of things - My approach to getting news and staying on top of things.

Investing/finance

Finance - Invest into ideas I care about.

Presentations

Pitch

Tech

Static sites (landing pages) / Blogs - NextJS, Eleventy or Hugo.
Web Apps - NextJS with Blitz
Server APIs - Go. Deployed serverless on GCP Cloud Run or AWS Lambda. TODO: apex/rpc generate API clients
Scripts & CLI tools - Go
Database - Postgres or SQLite. Use Prisma, Hasura or Graphile Starter for GraphQL.
Auth (SSO, 2FA) - Firebase or Prisma
iOS/macOS apps - Swift/SwiftUI. Use Composable Architecture.
Docs - GitBook

Project tools

GitHub - Code sharing & collaboration. Issues & Roadmaps.
Discord/Slack/Telegram - According to type & size of project. Small community/project, Telegram group is great. Open source or community project, Discord. More corporate, Slack is ok.
Notion - Everything wiki, collaboration. Company Docs.
Figma - Design, mockups, visual prototyping.
Loom - Video screen sharing & collaboration.
Metabase - Quick insights/analytics from data. Hooks up to Postgres easily & lets you run intuitive queries & make dashboards.
Google Domains - Domain purchase, handling. Gives you free email forwarding.
TODO: Linear is nice but GitHub is better integrated and is free. Just needs Linear or Ship level client.

Cloud Compute

AWS/GCP depending on service needed. GCP interface is nicer.

Utility

Excalidraw - Quick sketches, thinking things through.
TODO: G Suite not that useful compared to Notion. Can get email for free with email forwarding.

React

State - useState (trivial data updates). useReducer + useContext (global updates, can also use Jotai). TODO: Zustand, MobX, XState
GraphQL - Urql TODO: Apollo.

Web

Performance check - use WebPageTest

Design System

Components - Chakra UI
Storybook - View/test components on web.

Payment

Stripe Checkout

Analytics

Fathom

Git

Sublime Merge - Visual Git interface. Nice way to see changes + past commits.
gitupdate - Automate commits. Use it for all doc, curated list updates and as commits inside feature branches (branch gets squashed after with proper commit).

Other

Format code automatically. Prettier for JS/TS/CSS/HTML/MD. Black for Python. swift-format for Swift.