My Digital Tool Stack

This is a list of the apps and tools that I use as a part of my digital tool stack.

I've organized them by their context. I have listed the apps under their main context and if they have multiple contexts, I list them under "other apps and tools" in the contexts they also belong to.

For Effectiveness...

• Spotify - Music.
• Obsidian - Capturing and connecting my thoughts and ideas.
• Raycast - An OS launcher.
• Drafts - Quick capture, especially dictation.

For Work Execution...

• Chrome - An internet tool for Googling Stack Overflow and previewing web apps I built.
• VS Code - Building software.
• MongoDB Compass - A tool for querying Mongo databases.
• PostHog - for analytics ingestion and analyzing that data

For Work Adminstrivia...

• Cron (calendar) - A more intuitive, refined calendar.
• Slack - A place to talk to my team, people in open source projects and my friends.
• Discord - A place to talk to friends.
• Spark (email) - A tool for email.
• Loom - A tool for communicating what I'm noticing and thinking about via video.

General Administrivia

• 1Password - password management

Set It and Forget It

These are services I use that I rarely have to look at but they do heavy lifting for the work I do.

• Vercel - The deployment and hosting platform I use for everything I make for the internet.
• Namecheap - Where I buy my domains for the web.
• ImprovMX - Email for my personal domain (curiouslychase.com) is routed through ImprovMX to my Gmail.

I also keep a list of Useful Digital Tools that I use infrequently but still find valuable.