Alyssa Holland | Uses

Uses

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Last Updated: July 25, 2025

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IDE's and Editors

  • Webstorm - My primary editor for work or more complex projects
  • VSCode
  • CotEditor - Simple text editor for viewing individual files.
  • Fork - Git GUI client
  • RunJS - JavaScript playground for your desktop

Terminal and CLI Tools

Services

  • Plausible 📊 - Simple and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
  • Spotify Premium 🎵 - So I can listen to my sweet tunes, uninterrupted.
  • Basin - Form backend service that makes wiring up forms on the front-end a breeze.

Home Office

Productivity Tools

  • Raycast
  • Twos ✌️ - Organize notes, to-dos, reminders & more in one, simple place.
  • Things 3 - My task manager of choice ✅
  • Pandan - Time awareness in your menubar
  • Sunsama - The digital daily planner that helps you feel calm and stay focused.

Desktop Apps

  • Notion
  • Flycut - Clipboard manager
  • Itsycal 📆 - Tiny menu bar calendar
  • Typora - A minimal Markdown editor and reader.
  • Rocket 🚀 - Emoji picker with Slack-style shortcuts
  • Figma
  • Spark 📧 - Email client
  • Shottr - For recoding gifs and screenshots
  • Cleanshot X - For video recordings
  • Superwhisper - Speech-to-text tool
  • Eagle - A way to collect, search and organize design files all in one place.
  • PixelSnap 2 - I use this tool when implementing designs for pixel-perfect accuracy.
  • Magnet - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts. (I use Rectangle, an open source alternative, on my work computer.)
  • HEIC Converter - Convert HEIC images to JPEG or PNG
  • Vanilla - Hide menu bar icons on your Mac.
  • FastFolderFinder - Launch apps and find folders, right from your keyboard.
  • Hyperkey - The extra macOS modifier key

Browser Extensions