/uses

Hardware.

Main apps.

Things 3: the core task manager that runs my life. I am one of those people that keeps switching between apps. Todoist, Apple Reminders, you name it. All have good points, and all have bad points. But one thing is clear with Things 3, the UI & UX is sublime. Ideally I would have Things 3 not with the areas and projects, but just with lists. So Apple Reminders but with a vastly better experience. But this works for now.
Bear: all my knowledge, meeting notes, project overviews, etc. are stored here.
Tot: my scratchpad to quickly make small notes that sync. From here stuff goes to Things, Bear, or in a void.
Apple Calendar: more than suffices for my need of a calendar.
Apple Mail: more than suffices for my need of a mail client.
Unread: for the little bit of RSS I use.
Hello Weather: beautiful weather app on all platforms.

Code & design.

Zed: it is a nice fast editor, but I am not really tied to any particular editor.
Ghostty: a nice looking terminal.
Vivaldi: every web developer needs a browser. This is mine.
Figma: I am no designer. But what I do, I do in Figma (because its free, not gonna lie).
Claude/Mistral: I want to like Mistral better as a European citizen, but it is often not reliable enough for me. So I come back to Claude very often.

MacOS supercharge.

Supercharge: I literally have an app installed called supercharge. It has a lot if nifty little enhancements (like a color picker!). And know only about 30% of them.
rcmd: a different way to quickly switch between apps using the right CMD key.
Paste: a clipboard manager that makes it a lot easier to do a lot of copy+paste.
Pika: use this as a color picker (to clipboard) and contrast checker.
Magnet: a window manager that is quicker, snapper and offers some more options (e.g. restore to previous size) for managing windows than Apple gives us for free.
Hyperkey: a way to make the caps lock key useful.
Monocle: a nice little app that adds more focus to one app. Basically ensures I do not get distracted by the Reddit page I see behind MS Teams during meetings...

Games & media.

Nintendo Switch 2: my main gaming device (currently: Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road).
Gamesir x5s: makes my iPad Mini a handheld device.
Netflix & Disney+: must-haves for the kids.
Castro Podcasts: for listening to my podcasts. The recent ownership transfer revitalized this app.
Apple Music: for the beats.