Some developers actually list the tools they use. I decided to do that too. This page will be the list of my currently used tools.

Perhaps, when you read it, you’d want to suggest me a solution that is better than the one I listed. Feel free to mail me at klimek.mariusz@gmail.com. I’m always open for suggestions.

Last update 13.09.2021

Mindset

Everything (YouTube watch list, Todo List, not archived mails) is a todo list. If it’s there, it is not done. If it would be done, it would be in the Second Brain and not on the list.

Taking notes

  • For the purpose of taking note as a process I’m using the reMarkable 2 tablet. It is by far my most treasured gadget! Writing manually is suppose to raise the concentration levels (quotation needed) and I always created temporary ToDo lists on paper. As I did with fast notes. The supremacy of reMarkable is that it can actually read my notes, convert them to text and send them to my e-mail. Result? I’m writing even more manually!
  • Obsidian - My Second Brain! I keep my notes on Dropbox as Markdown files I access using Obsidian. This application is so good it actually replaced Dynalist :-) And OneNote. No more Pocket Archive, no more tags in Feedly, no more YouTube videos saved for later. Make notes and store them in an Obsidian Vault!

Planning

Coding

  • Visual Studio 2017 - for .NET projects, for corporate work I use this one. Since I decided to never work in PHP and not touch JavaScript (I’m going ablaze with Blazor) I’m using VS even more often.
  • Visual Studio Code - I do this blog in it. But other than that, I think I only modify Terraform in it. I still like it for everything not .net
  • Notepad++ - previewing files, editing configurations, simple text editing. So many uses :-)

Graphics

  • Paint.NET - simple, free and full of useful features. Good enough for a graphics noob like me.

Other

  • Sumatra PDF - lightweight PDF reader. That remembers where I finished (very important feature).
  • 7-zip - for zips, obviously.
  • WPS Office - whenever I need an office I use this. Which occurs hardly ever these days.

Tool refinement

  • Alternativeto.net - probably the most important. I use it for tool refinement. I tend to treat my solutions as fixed. Sometimes I dare to check whether it will point to some kind of new tool that can replace the old one. And sometimes it does. It replaced Workflowy with Dynalist, for example.

Changelog

13.09.2021

  • Added Mindset section to write down my thinking.
  • Added reMarkable.
  • I stopped using Git Extensions and decided to use only built-in Visual Studio and Visual Studio… Git extensions ;-)
  • Obsidian.md replaced Dynalist, and OneNote.