Software I use
Last updated June 6 2025
I’ve recently done a clean-up of licenses that I have, and thought about what software I use. Here’s what I’m currently using and am subscribed to (and thereby support):
| App | Description | Usage/comment |
|---|---|---|
| Productivity | ||
| Firefox and Kagi | Web browsing and search | Kagi is a search engine that values privacy by having no ads. It’s supported with a subcription. Paying for search was a bit weird in the beginning, but after a while I was hooked. Their results are better and much less cluttered than DuckDuckGo, Brave and Google. Talking about Brave, I use their browser when I need a Chromium based one. Firefox for everything else. Love their extensions. |
| Obsidian | Notes | Local and markdown based. Their Sync service works really well across devices. Moved away from Notion for this. |
| Remarkable | Notes | Used with my Remarkable, which is mostly for quick capture and thinking. I send my notes to myself by email, or gather them from the app, and dump them into Obisidan |
| Todoist | Todo application | Fantastic application: Easy to use, highly customizeable and cheap. Long term user. |
| 1Password | Password management | Moved to 1Pass from Lastpass a few years ago. Usable, everything I could ask for in a password manager. |
| ChatGPT | AI assistant / text generation | Mostly used to improve/save time on work email. |
| Proton Mail, Drive, VPN and SimpleLogin | E-mail, storage, VPN, email alias | Recently bought 2 years of Proton Duo (with my wife) to handle mail with a custom domain, and get some long-term storage. In addition, it feels good to support a privacy oriented ethos. Some limitations in usability but it works well enough. Great value. |
| Ente | Photo storage | Encrypted photo storage, with a user experience liking that of Google Photos but with on-device AI features for the moments/on this day thing. Easy to let others add photos to an album, without them having an account. |
| Content | ||
| Readwise Reader | RSS reader and read it later-app | In addition to being my RSS reader (replacing Feedly) and read it later app (replacing Pocket) Also used for gathering quotes from various sources, and syncing those into Obsidian |
| PocketCast | Podcast client | Long term user, fantastic product. Got in early, so I got a lifetime subscription which is great value. |
| Snipcast | AI summary of podcasts | A colleague of mine made it, and it works really well. I provide it a podcast link, it summarizes it. A email filter forwards the summary into Readwise Reader. |
| Storygraph | Book tracking | Track what I’m reading, and share with the few that also has a Storygraph account. I’ve subscribed to get even better stats.I’m still on Goodreads as many of my friends are there. I add books there about once a month. |
| Last.fm | Music tracking | Track what I’m listening to across services, just for fun and stats. |
| Discogs | Music tracking | Tracks my collection of vinyl and CDs, and lets me scrobble to last.fm |
| Communication | ||
| Signal | Messaging app | Great app, works well across devices. My goal is to only use this and SMS.Sadly, there still are social situations that makes Facebook Messenger (and Facebook) necessary. |
| Lifestyle | ||
| Headspace | Meditation app | I bought a lifetime subscription over 10 years back, which I still use regularly. |
| Hevy | Workout tracking | Used for tracking weight lifting workouts. I’ve been through a few apps, this covers most of my bases. Only thing missing now is automated weight increased based on a set program, but it seems like they are continuously developing it. Lifetime subscription. |