Last updated on 24 April 2025 10:17 AM.

Stuff I Use

Initially put this together after seeing Jarrod's and Robb's lists, and eventually discovered there was a whole list of other people who did something similar. I copied the initial headings from defaults.rknight.me and made do with the ones I wanted to note down, and added some of my own. 😄

Some of the links here may be referral links! I'll just mark them accordingly if there's anything special about them.

I eventually want to spiffy this up while getting some inspiration from these blogs: Jason Burk's

📨 Mail Client

• Gmail or Outlook for work emails

📮 Mail Server

• Standard Gmail or Outlook / Microsoft 365

📝 Notes

• Obsidian with the following plugins:
  • Calendar
  • Natural Language Dates
  • Reading Time
  • Dataview
  • Meta Bind
  • Templater
  • Tasks
  • Map View
  • Heatmap Calendar
  • Code Editor Shortcuts
  • Tracker
  • JS Engine
  • Numerals
  • Unicode Search
  • Automatic Table Of Contents
  • Periodic Notes
  • Better Word Count
  • Linter
  • Media DB
    • though admittedly I'm still fixing my implementation of this

✅ To-Do

• technically also Obsidian but I haven't really gotten back to using it properly... 😅
• Tasks or making an Event in my personal Google Calendar

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting

• From the lock screen, swipe to the left to open the Camera
• press the ✨ Camera Control ✨ white button on my iPhone 16 Pro

🟦 Photo Management

• Photos backed up on iCloud
• Google Photos

📆 Calendar

• Google Calendar

📁 Cloud File Storage

• OneDrive (since I pay for a Microsoft 365 Subscription shared with my parents)
• iCloud

📖 RSS

• I don't really consume RSS feeds at the moment for personal needs
• I am subscribed to Figma's Release Notes RSS Feed for FoFPH needs!

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts

• Apple Contacts backed up in iCloud
• I did attempt to list people down in Obsidian too... but I stopped mid-2024

🌐 Browser

• Zen Browser

💬 Chat

• Facebook Messenger
• Discord
• Telegram
• WhatsApp
• Instagram DMs (full of reels... full of memes)
• Apple iMessage for some of my friends who are on iPhone too

🔖 Bookmarks

• Either by keeping it as a tab in my Zen Browser Workspace or dumping it in my Link Dump Obsidian file! 😝

📜 Word Processing

• Technically still Obsidian
• Occasionally still opening Sublime Text 3 though due to muscle memory
• Also Google Docs or MS Word, depending on who I'm working with

📈 Spreadsheets

• big Google Sheets user

📊 Presentations

• Figma Slides since I do have access to it
• Google Slides or MS PowerPoint if working with others

🛒 Shopping Lists

• memory jk
• Telegram messages between me and my partner, or in my Saved Messages xd

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance

• my partner and I have a self-hosted Actual instance!
• Wise

📰 News

• Facebook feed... 🫣
• Threads feed
• BlueSky feed
• Mastodon feed
• We have a channel dedicated to news and current events named #doomscrolling in Tambayan 404

🎵 Music

• Spotify Premium user
• also currently on Apple Music but I don't use it much yet

🏡 Blog Hosting

• Coolify

🌐 Domains

• Porkbun!
• For my OMG.LOL domain, account, etc.: omg.lol

💻 Coding & Setup

• Terminal: Ghostty
• Code Editor: Cursor (while sparingly using the AI functionality for now)
• My main keyboard: Lily58 Pro with NK Cream switches

📢Social Media Networks

• see my Contact page!

✈️ Flight Tracking

• Flighty especially because it has that yearly passport thing!

📚 Reading

• For reading manga: MANGA Plus by SHUEISHA

☁️ Weather

• Ventusky
• Hello Weather for the cute widgets on iOS