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27. **Learn to Write** – Start with a few words or a short story. Or you could write a book. Learn about the [8-Point Story Arc](https://youtu.be/W0HEqI3pJIM) to improve your writing.
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28. **Build Yourself a Website** – If you don’t know how to code, do not despair. You can set up a website without technical knowledge on [WordPress](https://wordpress.com) or [Squarespace](https://squarespace.com).
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29. **Start a Blog** – If you have a website, you can start writing a blog. We need more blogs with interesting topics. You might know a few topics better than most people. Write about it.
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30. **Learn Design & Illustration** – You don’t need expensive software to start. Try [Affinity Designer](https://affinity.serif.com/designer/). It costs less than €50 and is powerful. I do all my designs with it: Websites, Flyer, Logos, … They have hundreds of [video tutorials](https://affinity.serif.com/learn/) and multiple books.
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30. **Learn Design & Illustration** – You don’t need expensive software to start. Try [Affinity](https://www.affinity.studio/). It costs nothing and is powerful. I do all my designs with it: websites, flyers, logos, brochures …
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31. **Improve Your Math** – The [Khan Academy](https://www.khanacademy.org/) is a free resource to learn everything about math, from preschool to university levels. The content is better than that in most schools. And they have more than math, courses on science & engineering and arts & the humanities.
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32. **Learn a Language** – You can learn on [Duolingo](https://www.duolingo.com/) for free. They have courses in so many languages, you can even learn _High Valyrian_, _Klingon_ or _Navajo_. I learn _Spanish_ and _Japanese_ every day.
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33. **Learn 3D Creation** – Not long ago, 3D software cost thousands of dollars. But today you can learn for free with [Blender](https://www.blender.org/). Modeling, Sculpting, Animation & Rigging, and Rendering. I’m doing the course [Complete Blender Creator: Learn 3D Modelling for Beginners](https://www.udemy.com/course/blendertutorial/) on Udemy.
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My main tool for writing is [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer). I use it on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It’s the most minimalistic, distraction-free, beautiful writing experience. It supports Markdown, and has tools to analyze your words, and count reading time, characters, words, and sentences. I write my text in Markdown and either open it from DEVONthink in iA Writer or save my texts in iCloud and index the contents of these folders in DEVONthink.
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### Affinity Designer 📱 🖥
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### Affinity 📱 🖥
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The British company **Serif** creates the best design tools I know. I worked with and owned Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for over 15 years, and use Sketch at work. But [Affinity Designer](https://affinity.serif.com/designer/) is my tool of choice for everything I design: Websites, UI, flyers, and logos.
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I worked with and owned Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for over 15 years, and use Sketch at work. But [Affinity](https://www.affinity.studio/) is my tool of choice for everything I design: Websites, UI, flyers, and logos.
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I switched away from Adobe when they started forcing people to their cloud solutions and making it impossible to buy a new version every few years, but instead have to pay monthly “rent”. Serif won multiple awards for Affinity Designer.
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I switched away from Adobe when they started forcing people to their cloud solutions and making it impossible to buy a new version every few years, but instead have to pay monthly “rent”.
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I use the iPad version and soon plan to buy a big iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil to create even cooler things with Affinity Designer.
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I use the iPad version and soon plan to buy a big iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil to create even cooler things with Affinity.
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### Affinity Photo 📱 🖥
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[Affinity Photo](https://affinity.serif.com/de/photo/) is the second tool from **Serif**. I use it less, but when I want to work on photos or photo manipulations, I use Affinity Photo. Serif won multiple awards for Affinity Photo.
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I also use it to work on photos or photo manipulations, I use Affinity.
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It has support for RAW, PSD, 360° photo editing, HDR, batch automation, smart objects, and montage. I’m not a professional photographer, but it’s made for them.
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### Affinity Publisher 🖥
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[Affinity Publisher](https://affinity.serif.com/publisher/) is the newest tool by **Serif**. It’s an incredibly powerful DTP tool to replace Adobe InDesign or Quark Express. I started working with it, but I plan to create and lay out a book with it. It seamlessly integrates with Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo and allows doing nearly everything you can think of.
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Affinity is also an incredibly powerful DTP tool to replace Adobe InDesign or Quark Express. I started working with it, but I plan to create and lay out a book with it.
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### Eagle
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In mid of 2019, I finally started with my design. I spend 3 hours on prototyping and mood boards and nearly 25 hours on the designs.
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As my tool of choice, I picked [Affinity Designer](https://affinity.serif.com/designer/). I love the tool since it was first released. I worked for 15 years with Adobes products and owned multiple expensive versions of their designer software. But when Adobe thought it might be a good idea to rent software instead of selling it and forcing people to regularly pay to be able to use the tools, I moved on to other software.
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As my tool of choice, I picked [Affinity](https://www.affinity.studio/). I love the tool since it was first released. I worked for 15 years with Adobes products and owned multiple expensive versions of their designer software. But when Adobe thought it might be a good idea to rent software instead of selling it and forcing people to regularly pay to be able to use the tools, I moved on to other software.
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And working with [Affinity Designer](https://affinity.serif.com/designer/), [Affinity Photo](https://affinity.serif.com/photo/), or [Affinity Publisher](https://affinity.serif.com/publisher/) is much more fun. They are performant and have many nice tools and features. And the price is unbeatable. I own all their products on Mac and iPad and can move between the tools, while designing, with ease.
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And working with Affinity is much more fun. They are performant and have many nice tools and features. And the price is unbeatable. I own all their products on Mac and iPad and can move between the tools, while designing, with ease.
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I decided to use Aaron James Draplin's method of designing. He is a talented designer inspiring millions with his artwork and author of <ProductLink asin="1419720171" text="Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything" />.
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At the end of May 2020, I started creating the first page: [The Error 404 page](/404/). I used explicitly positioned content and could test out my grid.
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Next, I created the first Markdown page: [Imprint](/imprint/). And then the [About](/about/) page, another explicitly designed page. It was impressive how quick and easy it was to create all the layouts I designed months earlier in Affinity Designer. Each page took me a day. I created the first parts of the [Homepage](/), another explicitly set site.
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Next, I created the first Markdown page: [Imprint](/imprint/). And then the [About](/about/) page, another explicitly designed page. It was impressive how quick and easy it was to create all the layouts I designed months earlier in Affinity. Each page took me a day. I created the first parts of the [Homepage](/), another explicitly set site.
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Then I started with my first data-driven pages: [The Traditional Colors of Japan](/traditional-colors-of-japan/) and [Haiku](/haiku/).
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format: 50-start
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sort: 10
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categories: ["Design", "Writing"]
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intro: I love experimenting with the Open Source AI image generator Stable Diffusion since 2022. I constantly try new prompts, techniques, extensions and styles, and even trained my own models. Recently, I also started using FLUX.
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intro: I love experimenting with the Open Source AI image generator Stable Diffusion since 2022. I constantly try new prompts, techniques, extensions and styles, and even trained my own models. I also started using FLUX, FLUX Kontext, GPT Image 1, and Gemini 3 Pro Image.
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image:
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src: /assets/images/projects/thumbnails/ai-art.webp
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aspectRatio: 1.43
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class: bamboo-illustration
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sort: 90
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categories: ["Illustration"]
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intro: I created the bamboo illustration in 2006 for my Martial Arts website using Adobe Illustrator and the gradient grid tool. 2015 I decided to use my bamboo as SVG on my website. Unfortunately, the gradient tool is not supported in SVG and I needed to recreate my bamboo with linear, radial, and other supported gradients in Affinity Designer.
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intro: I created the bamboo illustration in 2006 for my Martial Arts website using Adobe Illustrator and the gradient grid tool. 2015 I decided to use my bamboo as SVG on my website. Unfortunately, the gradient tool is not supported in SVG and I needed to recreate my bamboo with linear, radial, and other supported gradients in Affinity.
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image:
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src: /assets/images/projects/thumbnails/bamboo-illustration.svg
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aspectRatio: 1.5
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"tags": [
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"UX/UI Design",
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"Information Architecture",
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"Affinity Designer",
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"Affinity Photo",
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"Affinity Publisher",
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"Affinity",
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"Figma",
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"Sketch",
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"Abstract",
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layout: ../layouts/AboutLayout.astro
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title: About
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updated: 2025-01-23
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updated: 2025-12-15
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description: I’m Stefan Imhoff, a Web Developer from Hamburg, Germany.
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backLink: /
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### Design
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- I designed the website myself in [Affinity Designer](https://affinity.serif.com/designer/), using the Japanese art form of _shibui_ (<nobr>渋い</nobr>) as a source of inspiration. To learn more about the process, please read the essays about the [inspiration](/new-website-2020-inspiration/) and [design](/new-website-2020-design/)
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- I designed the website myself in [Affinity](https://www.affinity.studio/), using the Japanese art form of _shibui_ (<nobr>渋い</nobr>) as a source of inspiration. To learn more about the process, please read the essays about the [inspiration](/new-website-2020-inspiration/) and [design](/new-website-2020-design/)
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- The design uses the variable typeface [Secuela](https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/secuela-variable) by [deFharo](https://github.com/defharo). I use a font scale that is based on the golden ratio, and the font scales automatically to the viewport size
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- I created the Bonsai image on my homepage and other cover photos with [Stable Diffusion](https://stability.ai/), [FLUX](https://blackforestlabs.ai/), [ControlNet](https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet), and [Affinity Photo](https://affinity.serif.com/photo/). My portrait photo was generated in Stable Diffusion with a custom LoRa model trainied in [FLUX Dev](https://replicate.com/ostris/flux-dev-lora-trainer/train)
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- I created the Bonsai image on my homepage and other cover photos with [Stable Diffusion](https://stability.ai/), [FLUX](https://blackforestlabs.ai/), [ControlNet](https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet), [GPT Image 1](https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-image-1), [Gemini 3 Pro Image](https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-image/pro/), and [Affinity](https://www.affinity.studio/). My portrait photo was generated in Stable Diffusion with a custom LoRa model trainied in [FLUX Dev](https://replicate.com/ostris/flux-dev-lora-trainer/train)
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- The minimalistic icons are by [Remix Icon](https://remixicon.com/), which is [Jimmy Cheung](https://github.com/xiaochunjimmy) and [Wendy Gao](https://github.com/wendygaoyuan)
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### Technology
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layout: ../layouts/PageLayout.astro
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title: Tools
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updated: 2025-08-27
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updated: 2025-12-15
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description: I enjoy learning how other people work, what hardware, software, tools, and gadgets they use. On this page, I present my tools.
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intro: I enjoy learning how other people work, what hardware, software, tools, and gadgets they use. Here, I present my tools.
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cover: /assets/images/cover/home-office.webp
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- [Capisco Chair by HÅG](https://www.fully.com/chairs/for-standing-desks/hag-capisco-chair.html) –
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black leather and a black frame
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- [Black Leather Desk Pad](https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07GSC21K8) – 90×50 cm
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- [MacBook Stand](https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01F01DRW6) – my MacBook Pro 16" rests on a silver aluminum stand. I usually don’t type on the build-in keyboard, but on a mechanical keyboard. For me my MacBook is a second screen.
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- [MacBook Stand](https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01F01DRW6) – my MacBook Pro 15" rests on a silver aluminum stand. I usually don’t type on the build-in keyboard, but on a mechanical keyboard. For me my MacBook is a second screen.
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- [BenQ Screenbar Plus](https://www.amazon.de/dp/B07GGVNXSW)
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- [Anker PowerConf C200](https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09MFMTMPD)
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## Tech
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- [Mac mini M2 Pro](https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/) – 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD
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- [MacBook Pro 16"](https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/) – 16 GB RAM
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- [MacBook Pro 15"](https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/) – 16 GB RAM
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- Two [Apple Magic Mouse](https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MK2E3AM/A/magic-mouse-white-multi-touch-surface) – one in white and one in black. Don’t ask me why, but it has to do with Apple’s design decisions. 😅
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- [ZSA Voyager](https://www.zsa.io/voyager) – split mechanical keyboard; still learning to type on it
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- [Keychron K1 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard](https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k1-wireless-mechanical-keyboard)
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## Development
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- [Neovim](https://neovim.io/) – with [LazyVim](https://www.lazyvim.org/) as a plugin manager
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- [Zed](https://zed.dev/) – I use it occasionally
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- [Zed](https://zed.dev/) – I use it when I use AI agents to write code
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- [Ghostty](https://ghostty.org/) – terminal emulator 👻
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- [Tmux](https://tmux.github.io/) – terminal multiplexer
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- [LazyGit](https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) – terminal Git client
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## Design
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- [Affinity Suite](https://affinity.serif.com/) – Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, and Affinity Publisher
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- [Affinity](https://www.affinity.studio/) – Designer, Photo, and Publisher
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- [Procreate](https://procreate.com/)
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- [Eagle](https://eagle.cool/) – storing design assets, like images, videos, fonts, and illustrations; I use it every day and have over 40,000 assets saved (and only 1,000 of those are memes). 🐸
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- [Typeface](https://typefaceapp.com/) – font manager
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- [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer)
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- [DEVONthink](https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink) – store documents and reference material
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- [Reeder](https://reeder.app/) – read my RSS feeds
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- [Feedbin](https://feedbin.com/) – my RSS service. From there, I transfer everything I starred automatically (with a self-hosted [n8n](https://n8n.io/)) to Raindrop.io.
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- [Inoreader](https://www.inoreader.com/) – my RSS service. From there, I transfer everything I starred automatically (with a self-hosted [n8n](https://n8n.io/)) to Raindrop.io.
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- [Raindrop.io](https://raindrop.io/) – my favorite app to save any bookmark and to find anything again in seconds. I have more than 30,000 bookmarks.
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- [Readwise Reader](https://readwise.io/read) – read articles, ebooks, 𝕏 posts, watch YouTube videos with AI enhanced transcription, or use the AI voice feature to listen to articles. When I highlight something, it’s automatically saved to Readwise.
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- [Readwise](https://readwise.io/i/stefan805) - review all my highlights from books, articles, and notes. I love the daily review and the flashcards.
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