Kev Quirk, Colin Walker, and other cool kids I follow online made it sound fun to share your “lifestack” as we approach the end of 2023.
So here’s mine: my digital “everyday carry” list of the tools and services I routinely use:
- 📨 Mail Service: Proton Mail
- 📮 Mail Client: Thunderbird (Desktop), Proton Mail App (Android), Proton Mail webmail (anywhere else)
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian, Syncthing (for cross-device sync)
- ✅ To-Do: Obsidian, physical notepad [not happy with this; want something more productive]
- 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar (via Thunderbird on Desktop) [not happy with this; want something not-Google – still waiting on Proton Calendar getting good!]
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Proton Mail
- 📖 RSS Service: FreshRSS, selfhosted
- 🗞️ RSS Client: FreshRSS (Desktop), FeedMe (Android)
- ⌨️ Launcher: RayCast (MacOS), PowerToys Run (Windows)
- ☁️ Cloud storage: ownCloud (selfhosted)
- 🌅 Photo library: plain old directories! [would like: something selfhosted, mostly filesystem-driven, with Web interface]
- 🌐 Web Browser: Firefox (everywhere)
- 💬 Chat: Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Firefox (easy access), Wallabag (selfhosted, for long-term archiving)
- 📚 Reading: dead tree format [my Kindle v2 died and I’m seeking a non-Amazon replacement; suggestions welcome], Calibre
- 📜 Word Processing: Microsoft Word, Google Docs
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: reveal.js
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: pen and paper
- 💰 Personal Finance: Google Sheets
- 🎵 Music: YouTube Music [not entirely happy with it; considering replacement]
- 🎤 Podcasts: FreshRSS; experimenting with Pocket Casts
- 🔐 Password Management: KeePassXC, Syncthing (for cross-device sync)
- 🤦♂️ Social Media: Mastodon, selfhosted
- 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo
- 🧮 Code Editor: Sublime Text
- ⌨️ KVM: Barrier
- 🗺️ Navigation: OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Talkietoaster (Garmin Montana)
- 📍 Location Tracking: uLogger
- 🔗 Blog: WordPress, selfhosted
