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Here are the tools I use to do stuff:
- GitHub Pages - to host this site and others
- Fathom analytics - to tell me where people go on this site and others (affiliate link 💰)
- UsabilityHub - for quick user research studies. (See here for coupon codes! You can get 10% off a subscription & 20 free testing credits)
- Canva - to design amazing YouTube thumbnails
- Droplr - to take & share screenshots, and to record notes to myself & website audits
- Protonmail - for email
- Google Workspace - for docs, sheets, calendar
- ScreenFlow - for recording and editing videos
- Final Cut Pro X - same as ☝️ but I’m still learning the tool
- Camo - Lets me use an old iphone with a cracked screen as a webcam
- ConvertKit - to send my newsletter
- Gumroad - to sell books and courses
- Vellum - to edit books
- Namecheap - to buy domain names which I sometimes use
- Zoom - for video calls. (I’ve tried and liked other tools, but everybody just gave me a hard time about not using Zoom)
- Scapple - for moodboards and mind maps and weird diagrams
- Excalidraw - for putting together quick and crude but cute wireframes
- iTerm - for editing text and running scripts. I spend more time in this app than any other, by far
- Google Chrome - to browse interwebs
- Safari - to read articles from the interwebs
- Reeder - to read RSS feeds
- Overcast - to listen to podcasts
Here’s a little map of what stuff I store locally vs. on other people’s computers (a.k.a. “the cloud”).
(If the image makes your eyeballs bleed, the short version is “web hosting and email in the cloud, other stuff local.”)
Next time I write something, I'll let you know.
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