Write and dictate
- Handy · handy.computer Local dictation: speak, the text types itself, and nothing leaves your machine. For emails, reports, shop-floor notes.
- Espanso · espanso.org Your repetitive texts, typed once and for all: canned replies, addresses, product references. Type three characters, it writes the rest.
- Apple text replacement · support.apple.com Already in your Mac and iPhone: your abbreviations synced everywhere, nothing to install. The official tutorial.
Note and organize
- Obsidian · obsidian.md Notes as plain text files, linked together, stored on your machine: yours forever. The building block of the memory.
Automate the workstation
- Apple Shortcuts · support.apple.com Native automation on Mac/iPhone/iPad: chain actions without code. The official guide.
- Keyboard Maestro · keyboardmaestro.com Deep Mac automation: macros triggered by hotkey, schedule, event or device.
- AutoHotkey · autohotkey.com The keyboard Swiss army knife on Windows: hotkeys, macros, replacements. Free and open source.
- Stream Deck · elgato.com Physical buttons that trigger your automations: one press, one action. Perfect on the shop floor.
Connect your tools
- n8n · github.com/n8n-io Automation between your software (mail, ERP, spreadsheets, APIs): self-hostable on your prototyping server, the natural companion of the plumbing.
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