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  • Sublime Text is my favorite text editor. I've used it since ST2, 3, and now into 4. It is easily the most performant editor I've used, opening gigabyte-sized files with ease. It's find and replace function is amazing.
  • Soulver but not the iCloud Sync part. Soulver is the only way I've stuck to a monthly or annual budget.
  • mpv is my favorite media player on most systems. On iOS, I use nPlayer, and on Apple TV, I use infuse.
  • Mimestream is my favorite email client.
  • Clean email is my favorite email cleaning service. Specifically, compared to Sanebox, I use it for the email screening and auto-clean features.
  • Anki is my favorite flash card app, but it's really the only SRS app I use.
  • Amphetamine is the app I use to keep my Mac awake.
  • Alfred is what I use for a launcher on Mac.
  • Cleanshot X is my screenshot / screen recording tool of choice.
  • OmniFocus is my task management app of choice, but it is not perfect and I have many problems with it.
    • Randomly restarts on macOS sometimes (for no apparent reason) reopening all windows.
    • Generally sluggish after SwiftUI rewrite.
    • Forecast widget on iOS doesn't filter by focus.
    • “Filter by device focus” randomly breaks.
    • No natural language input.
    • iOS app is a sluggish pile of junk.
    • Sluggish
    • Sluggish
    • Incomplete time management system
    • Can't hide calendar events based on focus mode in forecast view
    • Can't show date added row or sort anything by date added in task views
    • Tags aren't colorful
    • Quick entry just sucks for keyboard navigation
    • Omni Automation scripts take 10 decades to run when they iterate over all tasks (this should not be hard, computers are fast).
    • Signature feature: defer dates. Only app that does defer dates even remotely correctly.
  • RhythMap is my favorite store locator for rhythm games in Japan.
  • Tot is my favorite cross-device scratch pad for text.
  • Shadowrocket is my favorite VPN/proxy app.
  • Naver Papago is my favorite translation service, but the Papago app is the best by far for what I need. Specifically, it allows you to copy kanji from images so you can then paste that into other things like notes or dictionaries. It's far better than Apple's image-to-text recognition. It is also the best translation tool for Korean and pretty good for Japanese/Chinese.
  • The ALL.net games locator service is also really useful.
  • NERV is obviously on this list.
  • RadarScope is amazing in the US as a weather radar.
  • Opener opens links in different apps on iOS.
  • Fantastical appears on a lot of lists and I do use it, but I'm not sure I really make use of it.
  • Flighty is my favorite flight journal app.
  • macOS, lol
  • JQuake is my default earthquake app.
  • Circle.ms (more specifically the web catalog function) is my default way to navigate events like コミケ etc.
software_use.txt · Last modified: 2025/05/26 01:13 by particles