Uses – Lindsey Bell

Inspired by /uses, and my love of seeing what other people use in their day to day lives, here’s a list of what I use when I’m sitting at my desk.

2020 13″ MacBook Pro with an M1 chip, provided by my employer
RoyalKludge RK-M75 keyboard, stock except for an Apos Audio Bob Ross spacebar & escape key
MX Master 3 wireless mouse
Apple Magic Trackpad for when my wrist needs a little break
Apple AirPods Pro
Yeti Nano microphone
Apple iPhone 14 Pro
An old HP monitor that I plan to upgrade

VSCode with a variety of extensions
Local by Flywheel for easy local WordPress installations
Arc by the Browser Company which helps me organize any of the 10+ projects I’m working on
TickTick for todos, project notes, etc.
Notion Calendar – I like a dedicated calendar app and this integrates with Google Cal nicely; I started using it as Cron & I don’t use any of the Notion integrations.
Raycast for so many handy shortcuts and little utility apps including conversions, color picker, timers, reminders, clipboard, etc.
Outlook – I have a single Microsoft email for a client and a separate app makes my life easier
iTerm for when I need to do command line things outside of VSCode
omyzsh & CodeWhisperer to make using the command line a little more fun
Spotify Pro subscription because I can’t work without music
Figma for design files
A few utilities not handled by Raycast:
- Vanilla to clean up my toolbar
- Gifox for screen recordings
- Shottr & Skitch to easily annotate screenshots after taking them

Two gridded, spiral medium size notebooks – one for notes, one for manual to dos
A fountain pen from a random Etsy store to make note taking fun
An Anker MagSafe charger with a wireless charger for my headphones
A variety of little knick-knacks including small candles, a fidget toy, a mini Lego Adidas Superstar sneaker, two Disney tsum tsums – Eeyore & Dumbo, and a Hello Kitty figure
A small Mario Badescu facial spray
A coaster with a pug on it to hold my water bottle