Hardware

• Macbook Pro M1 : Had since 2021. Works like a charm.
• iPhone 13 Pro
• Apple Watch Ultra : A less dopamine inducing alternative to my phone. Used while listening to ebooks or doing exercise.
• iPad Pro 11: Helps me work on digitized documents, reap the benefits of journalling, and acts as a second monitor to my Macbook if I need it.
• Kindle Paperwhite: So I don't burn my eyes out reading.
• Airtags: Recommended for travelling. Might not work in some countries that don't allow the Find My Network, like South Korea 🇰🇷.

Software

• Obsidian MD (cross platform): My second brain for future proofing. It uses plaintext markdown language, so it's searchable on any OS if I ever switch my ecosystems.
• Apple Notes (native): My second brain for capturing notes.
• Drafts (freemium): Basically another capture tool, but it lets me talk through my Apple Watch.
• Video editing
  • Recut: Automated jump cuts to get rid of awkward silences. It helps with the most boring and tedious part of video editing.
  • Final Cut Pro X: Most of my recent videos use this
• Cleanshot Pro X (Mac): Screenshot and Screen Recording with floating head video feature. People told me I look very YouTuber-like when I use it to explain stuff on the computer.
• Anki: For spaced repetition and active recall. I used it for the majority of how I learned Mandarin but also use it for certain books I'm reading from time to time.
• Calibre: Allows me to do anything ebook related, from making them, to converting their formats, plus many other things
• Bookplayer Pro (iOS): If I find free audiobooks, I throw it into this app.

Services (Subscription-based)

• AI
  • ChatGPT : My chat-based digital assistant. The yin to my yang. Whenever someone complains about anything that remotely needs any kind of writing, I show them this and it's like I introduced the calculator or lightbulb to them. Useful for writer's block, brain fogs, and brain farts 💨 jk. Please do revise what you get from its output!
  • Otter.ai (iOS+web app): For meeting notes and summaries. If meetings were certain books on Amazon, "some meetings could have been a blog post", this blogifies it for you.
• Fantastical: Natural language input and cross-platform calendar integration
• Snipd: I use it to save & remember the best insights I hear in podcasts, with transcripts, summaries, mentioned books, guest bio, and more.
• Audible: No need for introduction but it's my main audiobook app. Paid of course.
• Readwise: A read-it-later app for ebooks, web articles, and Youtube videos. It pools my highlights from different resources like Kindle highlights, and Snipd and resurfaces them in a daily regular email to keep the ideas fresh in my mind.