Tools

Password manager, SSH agent and secret store in one. It also signs my Git commits, which keeps key material off the disk entirely.

The team behind Arc browser is trying to reinvent the browser. Arc is simply awesome and I highly recommend everybody to at least give it a try.

One inbox for every chat network — WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, iMessage. Saves me from keeping half a dozen messenger apps open all day.

The LLM I actually work with on a daily basis. I use Claude Code for knowledge work as well as development tasks. It is truly mindblowing what is possible with it.

The best screenshot and screen-recording tool there is for the Mac. It includes just the right amount of features for a screenshot and recording tool.

Expensive (subscription-based) pricing but definitively the best calendar tool there is. My whole business and private life is organized with Fantastical.

The currently best tool for UI design, design systems — especially if working with other team members.

A very complex but complete software for managing Scrum- or Kanban-based workflows within teams.

An online whiteboard with a whole range of different features and helpful templates to facilitate UX research workshops, and facilitate remote workshops.

A powerful documentation tool with a delightful text editor that is based on Markdown, with databases and sheer endless possibilities.

The best Markdown editor, which is completely free and very customizable through plugins and themes. There is also a huge community surrounding the tool.

A very powerful Spotlight alternative which has a vibrant plugin community, awesome UX and a very nice design.

A very different email client, that makes processing a lot of emails very fast and efficient. Now also features AI capabilities for composing emails.

A GTD task manager that stays out of the way. The Mac and iOS apps are the most considered implementation of the method I have found, and the sync is instant.

A simple time tracking tool, which also provides various analytics and sharable dashboards for clients with time-based contracts.

My IDE of choice with extreme customizability through endless plugins, themes as well as great integrations with agentic coding tools.

A simple but easy to use wireframing tool that keeps you from falling into designing at a stage, where designing is not the task at hand.

Handles meeting scheduling fully automatically and saves hours of sending emails with proposed dates for meetings back and forth.

A documentation tool for teams like no other. Coda helps you build single-source of truth (SSOT) style documents with powerful databases, forms and automations.

Search across scientific papers and get the findings instead of a list of links. Useful whenever a claim needs a source rather than an opinion.

Awesome tool for branded/shortened links (even in the free version) and some light tracking possibilities.

The perfect design inspiration collection tool, where you can store, catalogue and sort screenshots, designs and even complete websites.

Create simple and fast screen recordings with voice over instead of meetings. Especially helpful for feedback on design, websites, and anything else visual.

Create simple or very complex automations and move data between different tools easily and automatically. Pretty simple to use but very flexible.

A tool to measure distances, sizes or anything else on-screen. It can also create custom guidelines on the screen to measure alignment of elements.

Privacy-friendly analytics without cookies or personal data. Lightweight script, one readable dashboard, and the site stays free of a consent banner.

Server management for PHP projects without a control panel. It provisions, deploys on push and takes care of certificates.

A very powerful bookmark manager that solves many issues you will encounter when trying to manage bookmarks via the native browser bookmark manager.

Readwise collects and syncs any highlights I take reading eBooks, websites, PDFs and ePubs into an easy to use app and also into my Obsidian note-taking system.

Complete invoicing and bookkeeping tool with automatic import from bank account to help with invoice tracking. Also features proposals, recurring invoices and simple expense tracking.

Probably the best free screenshot tool for Mac with a lot of super-helpful features and built-in editing tools.

One of the best communication applications that helps tremendously with cross-team communication and can even help building communities for specific topics.

Automatically tracks time for individual applications and includes things like browser tab or window names to make it easier to assign different things to projects and clients.

A simple kanban-based tool for managing tasks either for yourself or within a team.

A handoff and documentation tool, that can help with feedback and handoff for designs by importing from Figma, Sketch, XD and other design tools.

A very easy-to-use design documentation tool for design systems which can connect directly to Figma to synchronize styles, components and much more.