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

Last updated on Jan 7, 2026, 11:03 PM UTC+8.

My bicycle 🚲

• a custom painted red Brompton named Gold Ship

  

  • my bag here is a GO FAR Large Bromp bag I bought from Bikeary, though I don’t think they sell it on their store anymore - I also have a LUMOS Ultra MIPS helmet that has seen better days lol

Mail Client 📨

• Gmail or Outlook for work emails

Mail Server 📮

• Standard Gmail or Outlook / Microsoft 365

Notes 📝

• Obsidian with a Sync subscription for the most convenient way to use my personal vault on Mac and Linux ([read more here](/blog/my-personal-obsidian-vault-setup/ “Read my blog post “My personal Obsidian vault setup””))
  • also using it 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

To-Do ✅

• Tasks or making an Event in my personal Google Calendar
• Sometimes also sending myself messages either in Telegram or Slack (for work)

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 recently downloaded feeed on my phone and Liferea on my Linux machine!
• 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… and I’m slowly trying to update it to make it make sense for me

Browser 🌐

• Zen Browser on my Linux and Mac
• Firefox on my iPhone so I could send links between my devices
• I also still use Safari if certain things don’t load in Firefox for some reason

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
• YouTube Premium user as well, though I haven’t downloaded the actual YouTube Music app yet, I just make use of it on the TV or on my PC

Blog Hosting 🏡

• Coolify

Domains 🌐

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

Coding & Setup 💻

• PC: Dual-boot with CachyOS+niri+Noctalia shell (explained more here) and Windows 11 (that I haven’t touched since I set up Linux lol)
• Terminal:
  • on Mac and Linux: Ghostty
  • on Windows: just plain old Terminal
• Code Editor:
  • on Mac and Windows: VS Code
  • on Linux: Zed
• My main keyboard: [Baseform](https://posture.works/baseform/ “just released last September 2025!”) with [Equalz Fruit Smoothie Switches](https://www.switchkeys.com.au/products/equalz-fruit-smoothie-switches-x10?_pos=8&_fid=1808135e3&_ss=c “special thanks to a friend based in AU who recoo’d this hehe”)

####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