Here is a list of applications/tools I have found useful.
I use macOS:
- Obsidian.md: note editor with not too many plugins:
- Auto Link Title
- Calendar
- Templater
- Git
- Mononote
- Citations
- Zotero: reference manager
- VS Code: code editor
- Overleaf: text processor for research manuscripts
- Quarto: for Markdown presentation slides (and this website!)
- Brave: internet browser
- Purr: local audio transcription (MLX-accelerated), good for meetings
- Glance: syntax highlighting for macOS quicklook
- Toggl: time tracker
and an Android phone:
- Moon+ Reader Pro: epub and PDF reader
- Readest: epub and PDF reader with built-in translator
Some other useful things:
- For serious diagrams with math, Asymptote (online) or TikZ (LLMs are quite good at generating TikZ code)
- For presentations
- Reveal.js (here is an example), or
- Beamer (and BeamerQT), or
- a combination of e.g. Google Slides + LaTeXiT