My Workflow ​

One of my bigger passions in life is being able to do more with less. Life is short and I want to maximize the fun outcomes in life.

In spirit of maximizing outcomes, I want more amazing, kind and happy humans all around the globe and I want to do my part in making a dent on the world. My workflow below is what makes me move faster in life, I hope it helps/inspires you too in some way. ♥️

This is an extension of everything I know.

Life ​

• Rules - Lessons learned encoded as rules.
• Goals - Gives focus and direction.
• Processes - Streamlines doing some things.

Code ​

• VS Code - Main editor for code.
• Sublime Text - Editing wiki mostly in combination with Obsidian.
• Xcode - Swift/SwiftUI.
• Dash - Search docs.

Tasks ​

• Height - Project tasks. Personal goals/ideas tracking.
• 2Do - Personal tasks. Every task is actionable, tagged appropriately and sorted by priority.
• GitHub - Issues/PRs for projects I care about.

Plan ​

• Fantastical - Plan meetings & events.
• Cal.com - Sharing my availability for efficient event arrangement.
• Luma - Organizing online & IRL events. Sending newsletter updates for events.

Chat ​

• Telegram - Best native messenger with great stickers.
• Discord - Bigger communities.

Video ​

• Google Meet or Discord (voice/video chats)

Knowledge / learning ​

• Wiki - Everything I know written out and quickly searched with My Mind.
• Looking back - Public log of things I made & thought about. Reflect on the past to grow.
• ChatGPT used via desktop app. And Bing app on iOS.
• Dictionary macOS app - Search wiki fast.
• Articles - Long form writing.
• Curated lists

Search ​

• Alfred - Search everything with it.
• Alfred My Mind - Search my entire corpus of useful to me references. Extension of my brain.
• Safari - Only bookmark personal links which I search with Safari Assistant.

Photos ​

• Apple Photos - My personal photo/video/memories collection. Includes other media files (art/references/..) sorted by folder. Use Slidebox to quickly delete or sort photos into albums.

macOS/iOS ​

• macOS - macOS apps/tools I use.
• iOS - iOS apps/tools I use.

Track ​

• Tracking - Track many things for reference.
• Things I own - Track items I own & use.

News & Learning ​

• Staying on top of things - My approach to getting news and staying on top of things.

Investing/finance ​

• Finance - Invest into ideas I care about.

Presentations ​

• Pitch

Tech ​

• Static sites / Docs / Web Apps - Solid
• HTTP APIs - Hono deployed on Cloudflare Workers. Or Go/Rust packaged as lean Docker container with Nix. Deployed on Cloud Run or Fly.io or own hardware with Hetzner.
• CLI/scripts - TS ran with Bun. Or Go/Rust.
• DB - Grafbase preferred for ease of use. SQLite for local DB in iOS/Tauri apps. Postgres/PlanetScale are nice too combined with Drizzle ORM or Kysely. EdgeDB is neat as well.
• Auth (SSO, 2FA) - GitHub/Google single sign on auth preferred.
• iOS - Swift/SwiftUI. Use Composable Architecture.
• Desktop - Tauri that wraps over Solid web app.
• Docs - Docusaurus or VitePress

Project tools ​

• GitHub - Code sharing & collaboration. Issues & Roadmaps for OSS projects. Want Height/Linear level desktop client for GitHub. Like Ship.
• Height - All internal projects. Also have Personal board to realign ideas I work on with my big focuses for the month.
• Notion - Everything wiki, collaboration. Team Docs.
• Discord or Telegram - According to type & size of project. Small community/project, Telegram group is great. Open source or community project, Discord. More corporate, maybe Slack. But it's super expensive & unusable for open communities.
• Figma - Design, mockups, visual prototyping.
• Loom - Video screen sharing & collaboration.
• Metabase - Quick insights/analytics from data. Hooks up to Postgres easily & lets you run intuitive queries & make dashboards.
• Google Domains - Domain purchase, handling. Gives you free email forwarding.

Cloud Compute ​

• Cloudflare Workers preferred for APIs. Fly & Railway are nice too.
• For serving websites, Vercel, Netlify are great. Also looking into Cloudflare Pages as my API is on Cloudflare Workers already.
• AWS/GCP have some niche useful services I use too.

Utility ​

• Excalidraw - Quick sketches, thinking things through.

Solid ​

• State - createSignal & Nano Store.
• Queries - Solid Query

Web ​

• Performance check - use WebPageTest
• Feedback Fin for collecting feedback.

Design System ​

• Components - Tailwind UI, React Aria, Stitches

Payment ​

• Adyen for cheaper fees. Stripe Checkout has nice DX though.

Analytics ​

• Fathom

Git ​

• Sublime Merge - Visual Git interface. Nice way to see changes + past commits.
• gitupdate - Automate commits. Use it for all doc, curated list updates and as commits inside feature branches (branch gets squashed after with proper commit).

Other ​

• Format all code automatically. Prettier for most things. Black for Python. swift-format for Swift.
• Forms: Write in code. Reform seems nice too.