JR

Tools. Apps. Gear.

I often get messages asking about specific pieces of software or hardware I use. This not a static page, it's a living document with everything that I'm using nowadays.

Desk

Daily Carry

  • iPhone 15 - Yup, I am crazy for USBC; Matte Black, 256GB - maybe should've gotten the Pro though
  • AirPod Pros 2 - Small and convenient daily carry for random listening and taking calls on the go.
  • Mokobara Transit Backpack - Pretty cute backpack for daily carry - it's convinent, light and just a pleasure
  • Airtags - To stop me forgetting things everywhere

Mobile Apps

  • Health - Love being able to quantify parameters of my life
  • Dime - An open-source local finance tracker (with an apple wallet integration)
  • Matter - A place I love to dump cool articles I come across and read them when I have the time
  • Flighty - I fly a good chunk (aiming to do more) and this saves me a great deal of time and effort at airports
  • Literal - A better way of organizing my bookshelf and sharing it with others
  • My Bento - An app which forces me to pick priorities for my day and to execute on them
  • Wall Street Journal - I enjoy reading market news + opinion pieces. Just helps me get exposure on what's going on around me

Daily Drivers

  • Superhuman - Literally the best email client I've tried in my life. Absolute game changer
  • Vimcal - Superhuman for calendar. Everything just feels so... fast
  • Clay - My CRM of choice helping me helping me make notes about the people important to me
  • Arc (The Browser Company) - A Chromium browser which feels nothing like chrome
  • Bear - Apple Notes on steroids
  • Alfred - Just a faster way for me to navigate my Mac
  • Todoist - A dumping ground for any task which I have to do. Literally my life-OS.
  • CleanShot X - This is what I use whenever I need to share and/or highlight screenshots.
  • Rectangle - Just a faster way for me to manage the dozens of windows I have open
  • Texts - An all-in-one messaging platform to get me to inbox zero on my instant messaging platforms
  • Goodnotes - I enjoy doodling/ writing stuff on my iPad!
  • Around - My go-to video conferencing tool when I'm not required to use zoom
  • Bitwarden - My password manager of choice
  • Microsoft Office - My go to toolset for creating and editing documents
  • Rize - I track my time as an accountability booster helping me stay more productive throughout the day
  • Pitchbook - My go-to dataset for information about VC/PE deals
  • Jetbrains (Clion, Pycharm, Webstorm) - Powerhouse IDEs I use when I have big projects
  • Visual Studio Code - Lightweight text-editor for quick dev tasks and to work on remote servers