Tools

I am constantly experimenting with new tools, applications, and workflows so I can optimise both my time, productivity and impact.

Health, focus & productivity

  • f.lux for adapting the color of my screen to the time of day
  • Focusmate for working through challenging tasks
  • Freedom for blocking distracting sites
  • Fitbit Charge 2 for tracking activities and sleep
  • Bose QuietComfort headphones for blocking distracting sounds
  • Momentum for a personal dashboard to eliminate distraction and provide inspiration, focus, and productivity
  • Todoist for managing my todos

Learning

  • Feedly for following hundreds of blogs
  • Diigo for saving stuff I find online
  • Notion for personal knowledge management, building a second brain — sign up and get $10 off (link)
  • Overcast for listening to podcasts
  • CXL: the best online courses on digital analytics and conversion optimization
  • DataCamp: great online courses for (aspiring) Data Scientists
  • Blinkist for reading and listening to summaries of books
  • Goodreads for tracking the books I am reading, have read, and want to read
  • Readwise for re-reading what I’ve learned from books
  • Coinbase to experiment with cryptocurrencies
  • Typefully to write and share Twitter threads
  • Revue: to send my weekly newsletter
  • Descript to transcribe and edit my (video) podcast
  • Chimpessentials: course to learn how to get the most out of Mailchimp
  • Cloud86 to host all my websites (including this one)

Other online Tools

Favorite Google Chrome browser extensions

  • EditThisCookie
  • Ghostery
  • Adblock Plus

Desktop/laptop applications:

  • f.lux for adapting the color of my screen to the time of day
  • Fliqlo to change my screensaver in this cool flip clock
  • Spotify
  • Audacity for editing podcasts
  • 1Password for security
  • Freedom

Photography

  • Sony A7ii for shooting stills and videos
  • Sony 24-240mm lens
  • Samyang
  • Tenba BYOB 9 for carrying camera + extra lens inside any backpack
  • iPhone 6s
  • Microphone for recording podcasts
  • Sonos Play:1
  • DJI Mavic Air drone

Want me to check some other tool / app out? Feel free to contact me.

[last update: August 2020]