Tools

Home Office

My desk is a Jarvis Bamboo Standing Desk by Fully in 140 cm. The chair is a Capisco by HÅG with black leather. I use a black leather desk pad in 75 cm. I use an aluminum MacBook stand and a bamboo book rest on my desk. The BenQ Screenbar Plus provides good lighting. On top of the light is an Anker PowerConf C200 webcam.

Tech

My best computer is a Mac mini M2 Pro with 32 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD. It’s the fastest computer I’ve ever had. For work I use a MacBook Pro 16”, and I have another older MacBook Pro 15”.

I use two Apple Magic Mouse, one in white and one in black. My keyboard is a Keychron K1 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard with brown Gateron Low Profile Mechanical Switches. I bought a wooden hand rest on Etsy.

The main display is an LG 4K monitor with 31.5”, the notebook display is my second screen. For sound, I use two Creative Pebble loudspeakers, but I have a Sonos sound system for music. When I am on the road, I use my Apple AirPods Pro 2.

I have an iPhone 13 Mini that I use when I’m not at home and an iPad Pro M2 with an Apple Pencil that I use on the Sofa or when I’m creating digital crafts or notes. I can switch my Keychron keyboard to type on my Macs or the iPad.

Besides that, I have a few backup hard drives for automatic Time Machine backups. I use a Synology DiskStation DS220+ NAS with two 6 TB hard drives in a RAID system with Docker containers as a media server, cloud backup solution, and for network-wide ad blocking with Pi-hole. Additionally, I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB and Linux Ubuntu for redundancy for the DNS ad blocking.

Development

Neovim with LazyVim as a plugin manager is my default code editor. I use it in the Wezterm terminal emulator with the Tmux terminal multiplexer. Occasionally, I use Visual Studio Code with the Neovim extension. I use LazyGit for Git.

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Design

I love the Affinity suite by Serif and use it for all my creative work. I ditched Adobe a few years ago and never looked back. Furthermore, I use all Affinity apps on Desktop and iPad. Additionally, I use Procreate on my iPad Pro for creative work. Recently, I started using Eagle to organize my media assets, and I love the app! My favorite font app is Typeface.

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Research & Writing

My favorite writing app is iA Writer, I write nearly everything with it, but another writing app I use for my note-taking is Obsidian. DEVONthink is the app where I store everything, from PDF documents, to inspirational items to references. Everything is synchronized encrypted between all my devices.

Raindrop.io is my favorite app to save any bookmark and to find anything again in seconds. I have more than 30,000 bookmarks.

I consume all my content with the Reeder app, from RSS Feeds, to Twitter or Reddit threads, to YouTube videos. From there, I transfer everything to Readwise Reader to read it and create highlights to remember and review later in Readwise.

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Other

I use many extra tools, too many to name them all. Here are a few of my favorites. I’ve been using Things as my to-do app for years; I appreciate its simplicity and design. Raycast Pro is my most-used app, with its ChatGPT feature. I’m a fan of both browsers: Arc for its innovative features and Brave for its security, privacy, and built-in ad-blocking.

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