Last updated: February 2025
Productivity
- Notion is my ādigital brainā and I probably couldnāt live without it at this point.
- Raycast, a better version of Appleās Spotlight search.
- Todoist to quickly capture tasks on my laptop and phone, and keep them in a simple to-do list.
- LanguageTool, a writing assistant that checks spelling and grammar.
- Toggl Track to track my time spent on tasks.
- Zapier for automatically syncing my Toggl time entries to my Google Calendar.
- Google Workspace for most basic functionalities of my digital life. (Google > Microsoft)
- Gmail
- Calendar
- Drive for storing personal files and all of my clientsā design files
- Docs & Sheets (I hate Microsoft Word so much that I even wrote my Bachelorās thesis in Google Docs)
- Meet for video calls with clients
tldv.ioto record Google Meet callsā I switched to Granola.ai for transcribing meetings
I also use Notion as my CRM tool for DailyDesign.
Itās an open-source alternative to Grammarly, created by a German company. The premium plan is way cheaper than Grammarlyās while having all the same features (and an even cleaner user interface in my opinion).
Collaboration
- Slack for communicating with clients and team members.
- Cal.com for scheduling meetings.
- Loom to record short and easily shareable screen recordings with commentary. I use it a lot to walk clients through updates on their design tasks.
Business stuff
- SevDesk for accounting. Itās my āsingle source of truthā for revenue and profit numbers.
ManyRequestsis what the DailyDesign client portal runs on.ā I replaced ManyRequests. For project management with clients, I now simply use a shared kanban board in Notion (or whatever PM tool the client prefers).- Stripe for payment processing.
- Senja.io to collect, manage and share customer testimonials. Senja also makes it easy to collect video testimonials.
Design & Website
- Figma to design anything from websites and app interfaces to social media graphics.
- Photoshop & Lightroom to create or edit graphics and images.
- Pitch.com to create presentations.
- Super.so to create this website youāre on right now. Super is a website builder that runs on Notion. It simply hooks up to my Notion account and lets me share any of my pages ā with proper SEO and great load times.
- Webflow to build and host most websites, including DailyDesign.io
- United Domains; where Iāve registered most of my domains, including flogoertzen.com. I canāt recommend it though. I plan on switching to another domain registrar and host; just didnāt take the time yet to make the switch.
Hardware
- MacBook Pro M1
- portable monitor as my 2nd screen (Amazon link)
- cheap ergonomic mouse (Amazon link)
It plugs into my MacBook via USB-C and doesnāt need separate power supply. Itās pretty light, so easy to carry around. I put it on this tablet stand.
Have been using this since 2020. Took a couple of weeks to get used to it, but then itās great and Iāve never had issues with my wrists ever since. Also, itās extremely durable for the price; survived a 3 meter drop on concrete and still going strong!