2024! This week, we're sharing the various tools we use day-to-day in our work and side projects. Let us know if you have any favorites on Twitter @buildandlearn_
Building
- CJ: working on a side project, https://buckets.cjav.dev
- Colin: working on some fun docs projects at work
Learning: Sharing Our Tools in 2024
Tools by Category
- Terminal
- Editor
- API tools/clients
- Content Creation/Editing
- Mac Helper Apps
- Notes
- Calendar
- Email
CJ's Toolkit
- Warp terminal
- ohmyzsh with my own theme which is based on Sarah Drasner’s night owl
- Raycast
- neovim
- Skitch for screenshot annotations
- Postman (Used to use Insomnia a lot, but many companies have Postman collections so that’s easy to drop in)
- Descript for screen recordings
- Tuple for pairing
Colin's Toolkit
- iTerm2 as my main terminal
- ohmyzsh with Dracula Theme
- VSCode as a daily driver for code and markdown (also Dracula themed)
- RapidAPI client (formerly Paw)
- Descript for audio-editing
- Screenflow for screencast video editing
- Mac Workflow Apps
- Cleanshot for screenshotting, annotations, and recording screen gifs
- Raycast for moving around apps quickly
- Magnet for window management
- HandMirror for monitoring video
- HiddenMe for hiding icons on desktop
- Note Apps (too many lol)
- Notion for work and podcast notes
- Obsidian for 2nd brain, brainstorming
- Textmate for scratchpads while working on a project
- Apple Notes for personal on-the-go and collaborative notes for home
- Fantastical for desktop calendars
- Apple Mail on phone for personal inboxes, Gmail app for work emails
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