I copy pasted everything from my blog here. If you want the actual links to things I use, just use the link since I can't dump it in hackernews without it being really unreadable.

http://vincentmtang.com/toolbox/

I only put all the ways I organize my things via software, still a WIP (work in progress) for hardware things I use (pens, notebooks, etc)

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## Notetaking / Productivity

Dynalist – Primary notetaking software

Airtable – Google spreadsheet meets microsoft access. A swiss army knife for business. Very useful for making a minimal viable prototype

Pinboard – Bookmarking. I consider this 3rd party chrome extension a must-have, I bind it to my CTRL+D key

Anki – Flashcard software. I use it to speed up learning math, programming languages, and computer science.

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## Software Development

Chrome – My everyday browser

Slimjet – A simple chromium based browser that I use for webdevelopment occasionally. Because then I can have a seperate desktop icons

VS Code – My primary IDE

Github – Git + cloud storage for programming projects

Codepen – Isolated frontend environment. Used to A/B test components and explore cool things. Organize codesnippets here like I do in evernote.

Postman – API testing

LucidChart – Making flowchart diagrams and data models. Not free though, for that I prefer draw.io

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## Design Tools – (macOS and windows)

Flux – Makes screen red at night so I can sleep easier

AffinityDesigner – I use all adobe products as well, but I prefer this over illustrator

AffinityPhoto – Same reason, I prefer over adobe photoshop

AdobeIndesign – Catalog & Brochure design

Figma – UX design tool, applesketch is macOS only

AutoCAD – Architectural drafting program, but not free

Fusion360 – 3D modelling program for DIY projects

GooglePhotos – Photo & video backup

Dropbox – Cloud storage for files/folders

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## WINDOWS SPECIFIC

Phraseexpress – Keyboard macro automation. Checkout my 14 phrase-express guide to see use cases

Autohotkey – When I need an advanced macro that phrase express doesn’t work on. It has a high learning curve and ugly syntax language though

DirectoryOpus – Native windows file explorer sucks, this is best file explorer in market. Has a learning curve. Checkout use cases here

7+ Taskbar Tweaker – Smaller icons on my windows desktop screen

Blank Spacer Exes – It gets hard to look at so many icons in windows, so this gives me eye relief by grouping icons together

Greenshot – The best windows quick image editor out there. First thing I install on friends/family PC normally, its that good. MacOS version is not good.

ShareX – ShareX is greenshot image editor that supports gif uploads / custom image-hosting options. Version 11.6 is the best. MacOS has no equivalent.

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## MacOS specific – alot of programming apps

Iterm2 – A better terminal environment. I binded it to ⌃⌥[spacebar]

Oh-my-zsh – My preferred bash alternative for development

Penc – Gesture based window snapping/resizing

Spectacle – Keyboard based window snapping/resizing

Keyboard Maestro – Keyboard automation for macOS. Similar to phraseexpress but better

Alfred – Better alternative to macOS’s spotlight for quickly opening files / apps. I binded it to ⌥[spacebar]

Captured – An inferior version to shareX without gif support, but best thing I could find.

Dropzone 3 – For quickly handling common tasks like moving folders around

Cheatsheet – Because I’m a new mac user I need to quickly memorize commands

Unarchiver – So I can one click install things on macOS

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## Chrome Extensions – Productivity

Silverbird – For quickly tweeting things on twitter

Tabsnooze – Set reminders to myself to pay bills at end of month, and to do incremental reading

Pagenotes – When I need to save some specific information on a website. E.G. terminal commands, regular expressions on regex101.com, etc.

TheGreatSuspender – Suspends unused tabs after 30 minutes. Because chrome is a memory hog

Tampermonkey – Injecting javascript on a page to enhance notetaking tools. Its like your own chrome extension. Read about how I use it here

Ankitab – Relatively unknown, but its the opposite of Momentum. I use it to review flashcards thoughout the day

DynalistCompanionClipper – I use this with my notetaking app dynalist, I dump all my ideas here as they happen.

Stylus – Add custom CSS to webpages. Since stylish was tracking user data and got banned

VideoSpeedController – So I can play youtube videos up to 16x speed with captions to speedread. Its how I consume information very quickly

Imagus – Hover over an image to see its full view. Useful for my notetaking app dynalist, as well

GoogleDictionary – Select a word to see its definition.

PowerThesaurus – Select a word to see synonym and antonyms. Thesaurus are my favorite business and coding tool, naming is important

ClipboardHistory2 – SelectAll, CopyAll – you now have a saved copy of whatever your typing on reddit / hackernews / wordpress

Lastpass – Chrome extension for managing passwords. Cross platform

AmazonAssistant – So I can dump all my favorited wishlist items anywhere to amazon, export it out later

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## Chrome Extensions – WebDevelopment

Wappylzer / Builtwith – To check what websites are running these days, accurate 50% of time

Page Ruler – Measure things on screen quickly

Webdeveloper – Powerful swiss army knife for webdevelopment, but I never use it

ViewportResizer – For responsive webdevelopment, I use this daily. Better than chrome’s native tools. Checkout bookmark version here

Gifscrubber – I need to pause gifs especially if I want to make a codepen of it from dribbble, etc. PlaytheGif is a close equivalent.

RefinedGithub – Better looking github made by Sindresorhus

Octotree – Left side file explorer for github repos

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## Android / General

ColorNotes – Every other noteapp I’ve used sucks. I write things here, copy+paste it to dynalist later

GoogleKeep – When I need to quickly sync an image or text from my phone to PC and nothing else works

Meetup – Use the specific link, login, and add URL to homepage. Meetup android app sucks. Shows only the 28 techmeetups I’m subbed to

SolidExplorer – File explorer

Should I answer? – Tells me if phonecaller is a scammer. Not that I pick up phonecalls I don’t recognize anyways, that’s what voicemails for.

Slack – Team communication

OfficeLens – For making PDF’s from documents using your phone camera.

waze – If I know a driving route is slow, I use waze

okgoogle – My favorite commands are: “Play spotify”, “Next Song”, “Navigate Home”, “Exit Navigation”, “Find Parking”

Spotify – Music

Musixmatch – Lyrics for spotify

GoogleCalendar – Calendar

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## Content / News

Youtube – I only put an alert on people that post high quality content infrequently. E.G., SmarterEveryDay, MarkRober, TomScott

ProductHunt – Where I like to see all the new fun tools out there

Hackernews – Lots of smart and interesting people here. Also, where I find out about news in the tech environment

Reddit/subreddits – Copy this multihub, delete ones that aren’t relevant to you, add cool ones like r/welding, r/cableporn, r/engineeringPorn