awesome-personal

A List of Lists that List Everything I Recommend and/or Use Personally.

Labels are as follows:

• ❤️ - Cannot Live Without (or at least, I can't)
• ⭐️ - Highly Recommended

Contents

• Desktop & Web Applications
  • Desktop
  • Web
  • macOS Specific
  • Windows Specific
• Self Hosted
• Awesome Lists

Desktop & Web Applications

Desktop

Operating System Agnostic Applications. Some may have web counterparts, but are primarily desktop applications.

• Firefox - Browser (Chrome is a privacy nightmare & Safari is a Walled Garden of over-simplicity...)

• Visual Studio Code - Code Editor

• JetBrains Toolbox - IDEs (Rather Decent IDEs for larger projects)

• Postman - API Development Platform

• Docker - Containerization Platform

Web

Some of these can be used as Desktop Apps but are more commonly used as Web Apps.

• Raindrop.io - Bookmark Manager

• Bitwarden ⭐️ - Password Manager (Option to self-host, open-source, and cross-platform)

• Notion ⭐️ - Knowledge Base, Note-Taking, Wiki, etc.

• Diagrams.net - Diagramming Tool

• CloudFlare - CDN, DNS, Security, etc.

macOS Specific 

Also See Awesome Mac

Uncatagorized Applications

• PlayCover - Install iOS Apps on macOS

• Things - To-Do List Manager with IOS App

• Final Cut Pro - Video Editing Software

• Motion - Motion Graphics Software (Pretty Fun to Just Mess Around With)

• MonoDraw - ASCII art editor

• Luminar AI - Fast, Powerful, and Easy to Use Photo Editor

• Pixelmator Pro - Photo Editor using Swift UI

General Utilities / Tools

• CotEditor ⭐️ - Text Editor (Similar to Notepad++)

• IINA ⭐️ - Video Player (Alternative to VLC but with a better UI and more features)

• Raycast ⭐️ - Spotlight but make it good and with plugins

• AltTab ⭐️ - Windows Like Alt-Tabbing

• Clipy ❤️ - Clipboard Manager

• Shareful - System Share Menu Enhancer

• MultiTouch - Big Trackpads Deserve Big Gestures (Pairs well with AltTab)

• CleanMyMac - Clean, Optimize, and Maintain

• Unzip One - Archive Manager (More Similar to 7zip than Keka)

• Bartender4 - Organize Your Menu Bar, Hide Unnecessary Icons

• Moom - Move, Resize, and Arrange Windows

• PopClip - Pop Up Menu for Text Selection (Similar to Selecting Text on IOS)

• Kaldiscope - Diff all the things

• TinkerTool - Collection of System Tweaks (Changing Launchpad Icon Count & Dock Reappear Speed)

• UTM - Virtual Machines with QEMU emulation

• Barrier - Share Mouse and Keyboard Between Computers.

  • input-leap is a fork of Barrier that is more actively developed.

• Mos - Auto Switch between reverse scrolling and normal scrolling for a Mouse

• Proxyman - Capture, Inspect, and Debug HTTP(S) traffic

• Royal TSX - Multiple remote protocols in one tabbed interface. (MobaXterm Similar)

Technical / Development

• HomeBrew ⭐️ - Package Manager

• Oh My Zsh ⭐️ - Zsh Framework

  • Powerlevel10k - Zsh Theme

• Hyper JS - Terminal With Plugins & Nice Themes

• iTerm2 - Backup Terminal (Alot of customization options. More popular than Hyper)

• DbGate - Database Client. (Supports SQL and NoSQL Databases)

• Dash - Offline Documentation Browser (Handy for Bookmarking, Playgrounds, & CheatSheets)

• Fig ❤️ - Autocomplete for the Terminal

• OpenInTerminal ❤️ - Open Terminal/VS Code/CotEditor in Current Directory

• yabai ❤️ - Window Manager (Remove Focus Animation Delay on Desktop Change)

• skhd ❤️ - Hotkey Daemon (Custom Hotkeys. Compliments yabai)

• neofetch - System Info in Terminal

• bpytop - System Monitor in Terminal

• pyenv - Python Version Manager

• fnm - Fast Node Manager, Version Manager for NodeJS

Other Helpful Links/Info

• MacApps.Link - Ninite for Mac. Simple install multiple apps in one click.

Windows Specific

Also See Awesome Windows

Uncatagorized Applications

• MobaXTerm ❤️ - Multiple Remote Protocols in One Tabbed Interface
• PowerToys ❤️ - Windows Utilities

Self Hosted

Also See Awesome Self Hosted

Uncatagorized

• Dashy - Dashboard for Self Hosted Services
• Nginx Proxy Manager - Web UI for managing Nginx Reverse Proxy

React

Component Libraries

• Blueprint - For Building Blocky Informative UIs
• Chakra UI - Simple & Bubbly Component Library
• NativeBase - Mobile First Component Library. Mainly for React Native

IOS

Uncatagorized

• Trolstore - iOS app that can install IPAs permanently

Awesome Lists

Yo dawg, I heard you like awesome lists, so I put some awesome lists in your awesome list, so you can awesome list while you awesome list.

Uncatagorized

• Awesome Awesome ⭐️ - A curated list of awesome lists.
• Awesome Self Hosted - A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers.
• Awesome Mac - A curated list of awesome applications, softwares, tools and shiny things for macOS.
• Awesome Windows - An awesome & curated list of best applications and tools for Windows.
• Free For Dev - A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers.

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Uncategorized Link Dump

• Oracle Cloud Free Tier - Free Tier for Oracle Cloud
• Google Cloud Free Tier - Free Tier for Google Cloud
• AWS Free Tier - Free Tier for AWS
• Azure Free Tier - Free Tier for Azure