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title: "My current personal stack"
url: https://mdfy.app/UaxcbLwD
updated: 2026-05-14T18:15:49.480Z
source: "mdfy.app"
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# My current personal stack

> The actual tools I use day to day, as of 2026-05.

## Editor / IDE

- **VS Code + Claude Code** — daily driver. Claude Code's CLAUDE.md integration is the single most important productivity multiplier in my stack.
- **Cursor** — pulled out for big refactors where I want a stronger model + agent loop. Not the daily driver because the indexing pause on large repos is annoying.
- **Vim** — for quick edits over SSH or in repos I haven't set up. Always installed, rarely the primary.

## AI

- **Claude Opus 4.7** — primary thinking partner. Best for nuanced trade-offs and long-arc reasoning.
- **ChatGPT-5** — secondary. Better at structured task decomposition; the worksheet output is uniquely good.
- **Gemini 2.5 Pro** — for diagrams and image-shaped tasks where Claude's multimodal is weaker.

Three because each one forgets the others' context. mdfy bridges that.

## Capture

- **mdfy** — naturally. The dogfood URL is my actual working hub.
- **Drafts** — for raw thought capture on iOS. Drafts → "Append to mdfy" Shortcut → permanent URL.

## Calendar / scheduling

- **Cron** — anti-meeting setup. I don't take same-week meetings except for fires.

## Communication

- **Slack** — minimal, mostly read-only.
- **Email** — primary async. Long-form, no Slack threads.

## Reading / research

- **Reader (Readwise)** — articles, PDFs, highlights flow into mdfy via a Shortcut.
- **Arxiv-sanity** — when I need to skim ML papers.

## Health-of-the-loop

- **Rise** — sleep tracking. The numbers don't lie about whether I'm burning out.
- **Cron blocks** — first 90 minutes are "no Slack, no email, only build."

## What I tried and dropped

- **Notion** — drifted out of it once mdfy was working. The flow was: write in mdfy, paste into Notion, never come back. Cut the middle step.
- **Linear** — overkill for a solo founder. GitHub issues are enough.
- **Twitter as a feed** — drains attention. I post; I don't read.