My Workflow
One of my bigger passions in life is being able to do more with less. Life is short and I want to maximize the fun outcomes in life.
In spirit of maximizing outcomes, I want more amazing, kind and happy humans all around the globe and I want to do my part in making a dent on the world. My workflow below is what makes me move faster in life, I hope it helps/inspires you too in some way. ♥️
Life
- Rules - Lessons learned encoded as rules.
- Goals - Gives focus and direction.
- Processes - Streamlines doing some things.
Code
- VS Code - Main editor. Write mostly Go & TS.
- Sublime Text - Edit markdown (wiki, articles).
- Vim - Edit my Karabiner config with it.
- Xcode - Swift/SwiftUI.
Tasks
- 2Do - Personal tasks. Every task is actionable, tagged appropriately and sorted by priority.
- GitHub - Issues/PRs for projects I care about.
Plan
- Fantastical - Plan meetings & events.
- Calendly - Sharing my availability for efficient event arrangement.
Chat
- Telegram - Best native messenger with great stickers.
Video
- Google Meet or Discord (voice/video chats)
Knowledge index
- Wiki - Everything I know written out and quickly searched with My Mind.
- Articles - Long form writing.
- Curated lists
- Looking back - Public log of things I made & thought about. Reflect on the past to grow.
Search
- Alfred - Search everything with it.
- Alfred My Mind - Search my entire corpus of useful to me references. Extension of my brain.
- Safari - Only bookmark personal links which I search with Safari Assistant.
Photos
- Apple Photos - My personal photo/video/memories collection. Includes other media files (art/references/..) sorted by folder. Use Slidebox to quickly delete or sort photos into albums.
macOS/iOS
Track
- Tracking - Track many things for reference.
- Things I own - Track items I own & use.
News & Learning
- Staying on top of things - My approach to getting news and staying on top of things.
Investing/finance
- Finance - Invest into ideas I care about.
Presentations
Tech
- Static sites (landing pages) / Blogs - Solid
- Web Apps - Solid
- Server APIs - Go. Deployed on GCP Cloud Run or Fly.io or on Cloudflare Workers with Hono.
- Scripts & CLI tools - Deno or Go
- Database - SQLite or Postgres. Use Prisma for queries. EdgeDB is amazing too.
- GraphQL - GraphJin or Graphile Starter
- Auth (SSO, 2FA) - Firebase Auth if I use Firebase. Otherwise User table modeled well.
- iOS/macOS apps - Swift/SwiftUI. Use Composable Architecture.
- Docs - Docusaurus
Project tools
- GitHub - Code sharing & collaboration. Issues & Roadmaps. Want Linear level desktop client for GitHub. Like Ship.
- Notion - Everything wiki, collaboration. Company Docs.
- Discord or Telegram - According to type & size of project. Small community/project, Telegram group is great. Open source or community project, Discord. More corporate, maybe Slack. But it's super expensive & unusable for open communities.
- Figma - Design, mockups, visual prototyping.
- Loom - Video screen sharing & collaboration.
- Metabase - Quick insights/analytics from data. Hooks up to Postgres easily & lets you run intuitive queries & make dashboards.
- Google Domains - Domain purchase, handling. Gives you free email forwarding.
Cloud Compute
Utility
- Excalidraw - Quick sketches, thinking things through.
- Luma - Organizing online & IRL events. Sending newsletter updates for events.
React
- State - useState (local data updates), XState for more complex state.
- Queries - React Query
- GraphQL - Urql
Web
- Performance check - use WebPageTest
- Feedback Fin for collecting feedback.
Design System
- Components - Tailwind UI, React Aria, Stitches
Payment
Analytics
Git
- Sublime Merge - Visual Git interface. Nice way to see changes + past commits.
- gitupdate - Automate commits. Use it for all doc, curated list updates and as commits inside feature branches (branch gets squashed after with proper commit).
Other
- Format code automatically. dprint for JS/TS/CSS/HTML/MD. Black for Python. swift-format for Swift.
- Forms: Write in code. Reform looks nice.