Productivity
- Notion is my “digital brain” and I probably couldn’t live without it at this point.
- Raycast, a better version of Apple’s 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 clients’ design files
- Docs & Sheets (I hate Microsoft Word so much that I even wrote my Bachelor’s thesis in Google Docs)
- Meet for video calls with clients
- tldv.io to record Google Meet calls
I also use Notion as my CRM tool for DailyDesign.
It’s an open-source alternative to Grammarly, created by a German company. The premium plan is way cheaper than Grammarly’s 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. It’s my “single source of truth” for revenue and profit numbers.
- ManyRequests is what the DailyDesign client portal runs on. I use it to manage clients, tasks and payments.
- Stripe for payment processing. Even though ManyRequests is the “front-end” I use for payments, it simply connects to my Stripe account for actually processing the payments.
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 you’re 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 – with proper SEO and great load times.
- Webflow to build and host most websites, including DailyDesign.io
- United Domains; where I’ve registered most of my domains, including flogoertzen.com. I can’t recommend it though. I plan on switching to another domain registrar and host; just didn’t 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 doesn’t need separate power supply. It’s pretty light, so easy to carry around. It put it on this tablet stand.
Have been using this since 2020. Took a couple of weeks to get used to it, but then it’s great and I’ve never had issues with my wrists since using it. Also, it’s extremely durable for the price; survived a 3 meter drop on concrete and still going strong!