My philosophy for my setup is to keep things minimal. I never install an app just because “everyone uses it.” Instead of one big bloated app that does a lot of things averagely, I prefer multiple small apps that each do one thing well. I wrote this to keep track of what I’ve installed and to help me re-examine which apps I really need.

Productivity

• Obsidian: Notes, writings
• Notion
• Typora
• Antinote
• ChatGPT
• Claude

Development

• Orbstack
• Postman
• 1Password
• Ghostty: I previously used Warp, but Warp kept pushing its AI features. I prefer a more minimal terminal app.
• VirtualBox
• Cursor
• VSCode
• DBngin

Work

• Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel : I might not need these in the future
• Zoom
• Slack

Utils

• AdGuard: I bought the lifetime subscription during Black Friday sales. uBlock might be an alternative.
• AppCleaner
• Karabiner-Elements
• Keka
• October: A tool to sync Kobo eReader highlights to Readwise
• CleanShot X
• Tailscale
• Maccy

Personal

• Anki
• Calibre: I personally own a Kobo eReader; an essential app for sideloading books
• IINA
• Reader
• Spotify

CLI tools

• atiun
• docker
• docker-compose
• fd
• fnm
• fzf
• go
• hugo
• jq
• k9s
• lazygit
• neovim
• pnpm
• ripgrep
• tree
• uv
• wget
• topgrade