Tools I Currently Use
Tools I Currently Use
I am quite open-minded in trying out new digital tools. The following list collects those I heavily use, and I really can recommend.
Nowadays, I mostly try to use native iOS / macOS applications because of the cross-device synchronization, although one might not get same functionality than in the alternatives.
Note Taking I mostly use Apple Notes for digital notetaking. But occasionally, I need something more powerful which is when I will use GoodNotes and Obsidian.
News and Literture Research
- Zotero incl. WebDAV file synch to private Nextcloud and Zotero Cloud and Chrome Connector. Also, very nice for reading papers.
- Google Scholar Plugin for Chrome because of nice reference previews.
- NetNewsWire: My RSS Feed Reader with iCloud synch. Really helps to stay up-to-date in all different areas of interest. RSS feeds even exist for daily arXiv submissions in chosen areas.
Visualizations
- Apple Keynote (because of native Latex support) for presentations and posters.
- Inkscape for vector graphic modifications.
- TikZ with tikzit.
- Excalidraw (math preview) for technical /architectural sketches preferred over tikz.
- Furthermore: Geogebra for plots and mathcha for even more math that needs to be written down to tikz.
Software Development
- Enjoying the full JetBrain Suite (IntelliJ , DataSpell, clion, … ).
- Code Editing via VS Code / vim bindings / Plugins for whatever is currently needed.
- Proxyman and Postman.
- Environmental tools: VirtualBox (WIN)/UTM (MAC) & Docker & WSL2 (if on WIN systems)
Misc
- Task Management & Canban Board: Apple Reminders
- Mail + Calendar: Outlook
- Webpages: Mostly powered by static-page generator Hugo and hosted (for free) with Netlify + custom Github commit triggers.
- Password Management: KeePassX, but being slowly replaced by Apple Passwords
- Grammarly for spell-and grammar checking.
- iTerm + zsh as default terminal.
- Raycast as a replacement of the default Spotlight Search.
- PDFSam for PDF operations.
- brew for MacOS package management.