Tools that survived actual use.
Apps, workflows, habits, and experiments that seem to hold up in real life.
Cotypist
Tab-to-autocomplete almost anywhere — liked it enough that I'm building my own.
AltTab
Windows the way the Dock should have done it.
Ghostty
My terminal. I can't quite say why it's better — but I haven't wanted to switch.
Shottr
Fast, sharp screenshots — the free version is plenty.
Superwhisper
Dictation that works — most of my notes start as speech.
Tailscale
All my machines on one private network, wherever they are. The tool I'd argue about least.
Zotero
Where my literature lives.
Karabiner-Elements
Caps Lock as Command. Small change, hard to give up.
Obsidian
Plain-text notes and local files — and the AI notes alongside them.
Raycast
The launcher I use despite itself — apps, quicklinks, snippets, clipboard, file search.