Apps

These are some of the apps I'm loving/liking/using. (Some contain referral links so, if you use them, you're helping me out – not money-wise, just getting discounts on these apps!)

Arc: the best browser in my opinion. I'm a particular fan of the 'browse-for-me' feature on mobile.

Shortwave: the best Gmail client I've ever used. The AI assistant is so helpful. Far from robotic or non-human, I'll find myself many times replying to email by pulling up the assistant and speech-to-text writing a prompt where I explain a bit what I want to say, sometimes repeat myself, sometimes add a thing at the end and... boom, the email comes out looking lovely. Meaning, just regular email.

Hover: for registering domains basically. I've regretted using any other registrar other than Hover.

Notion: I used it more before, now not so much but always come back to it when I need a blank canvas to just... think.

lire: my currently preferred RSS app. I used to be a Reeder diehard fan (actually still am) while I wait for the mythical Silvio Rizzi to come out of his coding Swiss chalet to deliver his new app, I will continue to use lire.
*Update: he finally did and I love it! Reeder is such a calm and lovely experience to read feeds in.

Castro: my currently preferred podcast app which is a bit heartbreaking because I was always a fan of Pocket Casts. Fun fact: I helped translate it into Spanish a million years ago before it was bought by Automattic. Seeing my name in their release notes remains one of the highlights of my "tech life".

Perplexity: honestly I find this the most useful GenAI service of the post-ChatGPT world.

Kagi: no referral, wish there was. Such a great search experience. But I hate that they charge on a number of searches per month basis. I waste so many of them just lazy-typing the name of a site I know to click through.

Omnivore: the best read-it-later app by far.

Obsidian: simple and great. Immediate markdown processing visibility which is always good for writing.