Tools I Currently Use

Tools I Currently Use

These are my tools I have in daily (academic) usage. I mostly try to use native applications because of their nice synchronziation across all other devices.

Note Taking

• Apple Notes for all quick notes
• GoodNotes: For more complex projects.
• Obsidian has the markdown, latex and code highlighting features I am missing in Apple Notes.

News and Literture Research

• Zotero incl. WebDAV file synch to private Nextcloud and Zotero Cloud and Chrome Connector. Also very nice for reading papers.
• Google Scholar Plugin for Chrome because of nice reference previews.
• NetNewsWire: Nice RSS Feed Reader with iCloud synch. Really helps to stay up-to-date in all different areas of interest. RSS feeds even exist for daily arxive submissions in chosen areas.

Visualizations

• Apple Keynote (because of native Latex support) for presentations and posters.
• Inkscape for vector graphic modificiations.
• Excalidraw (math preview) for technical sketches preferred over tikz.
• Occasionally TikZ
• python + matplotlib / seaborn
• Furthermore: Geogebra for graphs, mathcha for even more math.

Software Development

• Enjoying the full JetBrain Suite (IntelliJ (Java), clion (C++), … ).
• Code Editing via VS Code / vim bindings / Plugins for whatever is currently needed.
• Proxyman and Postman.

Misc

• Task Management & Canban Board: Apple Reminders
• Mail + Calendar: Outlook
• websites: Mostly using Hugo and hosted with Netlify + custom Github commit triggers.
• Password Management: KeePassX, but being slowly replaced by Apple Passwords
• Grammarly for spell-and grammarchecking.
• iTerm + zsh as default terminal.
• Raycast as a replacement of the default Spotlight Search.
• PDFSam for PDF operations.
• brew for MacOS package management.
• DocuSeal for using digital signatures on docuemnts