Apps i use

🎵 Media Playback & Editing

• Apple Music
• Spotify
• IINA: Video Playback
• CapCut: Video Editing
• Screen Studio: Screen Recording
• OBS: Screen Recording

🌐 Web Browsers

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  Arc Browser: Primary Work & Personal
• Firefox: Specific university website access
• Min: Clean UI development environment

💻 Code Editors, IDEs, Development Utilities

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  Cursor
• Sublime Text: Quick text edits
• Httpie: API Testing
• DBngin: Local Database Running
• Beekeper Studio: Database Management
• OrbStack: Docker Management
• SourceTree: Git Management
• Proxyman: Network Request Analysis

📕 PDF Reading & Note-Taking

• Uxie: PDF reader webapp with AI features, annotations, collaboration, PS: I built this app. It's free and open-source,
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• Zotero: Pdf Annotations with export
• Highlights: Pdf Annotations with export
• PDF Expert: Pdf Editing, Annotations
• PDF Search: Offline Semantic Search
• Apple Notes: Quick Notes
• Notion: Long-form Writing
• ProNotes: Apple Notes Extension

🤖 AI & Productivity

• LM Studio: Local LLM Running
• MacGPT: ChatGPT in Menu Bar
• Superwhisper: Local Audio-to-Text
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  Granola: AI-powered meeting note-taker

🛠 System Utilities

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  CleanShotX: Screenshots
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  AltTab: Window Switching
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  Lunar: Adjusting brighntess
• Ice: Menu Bar Manager
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  Raycast: Advanced Spotlight Alternative
• Command X: Cut/Paste Files in Finder
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  Peek: Finder File Previews
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  Pure Paste: Link Tracking Removal
• KeyClu: Keyboard Shortcut Overview
• Lookaway: Eye Strain Prevention
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  Clop: Drag and Drop File Compression
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  Klack: Keyboard Sounds
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  Alcove: Dynamic Island-like UI
• Cling: File fuzzy search

🖼 Design & Editing

• Pixelmator Pro: Image Editing

🔒 Security & Privacy

• Proton VPN
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  Bitwarden: Password Management
• Adguard DNS: Ad Blocking

📦 Miscellaneous

• Keka: File Archiver
• JDownloader 2: Download Management
• Tempbox: Disposable Email
• OmniDiskSweeper: Disk Space Cleanup
• qBitTorrent: Torrent Client

📱 iPad/iOS Specific

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  Videolite: Ad-free (with Adguard DNS) YouTube Client
• Freenotes: Handwritten notes & PDF Markup

🌐 Browser Extensions

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  Ublock Origin: Goated adblocker
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  Bitwarden: Password Management
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  Dark Reader: Dark mode on websites
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  Bypass Paywalls Clean: Bypasses most paywalls
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  DeArrow: Removes yt thumbnails w random shot from the video
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  SponsorBlock: Skips sponsor segments in yt videos
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  Video Speed Controller: Control HTML5 video/audio speeds.
• Unbaited: filter out engagement bait and inflammatory content from twitter (x)
• WhatFont: To find out fonts on webpages
• TamperMonkey: To run custom JavaScript on any website
• Json formatter: Formats JSON files nicely

🛠 Package Management

• Homebrew: Primary Package Manager

⌨ Shortcuts

• SwitchAudio: To easily switch earphones across devices.
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