If you enjoy improving your productivity stack more than doing actual work, you're on the right page. # Productivity - General productivity: Raycast - Set shortcuts for - heavily used programs (IDE, Claude, Calendar, etc) in extensions/apps/hotkeys - clipboard history - window tiling - Try unit conversions (like currency) within the search bar - And much more (starting with /confetti) - Snippets: Atext - For email templates, admin details like addresses and phone numbers, recurring prompts, special characters ( -> into →), etc - Vim key bindings: Vimium - Transcription: Wispr Flow - Unless you also need strong multilingual support, you might be served equally well with the many similar OSS apps. # AI - AI: Claude Code and Codex - Keep laptop running as you close the lid: Amphetamine - Markdown file manager: git committed folder within an Obsidian vault within my icloud storage - git offers traceability and enables rollbacks if AI messes up - obsidian is a delightful md client - icloud storage so it's available on my phone, and because obsidian headless sync doesn't support partial vault sharing and there's no way I'm exposing all my vault to my VPS and agents - Local AI: - Run models: LM Studio - Harness: OpenCode/Conductor - Keep laptop on: Amphetamine - OpenClaw - VPS: Hetzner - Routing: Tailscale + Mulvad - Sharing memory: git syncing on a subfolder of my Obsidian vault - Online search: Perplexity for complex queries (blows everything else out of the water), Brave for standard ones # Programming - IDE: Cursor - Terminal: Warp - DB client: Postico - Vide prototyping: Replit # Workspace - Email: Superhuman if >50 emails/day, Notion Mail below - Calendar: Notion Mail (formerly Cron) has good multi-account support - Video call recorder: circle back is the best, grain.com has generous free tier - Transcript recorder: char > granola if you want to own your data - CRM: attio.com, keeping an eye on twenty.com (beautiful codebase) - Deck generator: taking recommendations. -- last edited 2026-04