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How I Use AI for Personal Knowledge Management: My LLM Wiki Workflow
A personal knowledge management workflow using Obsidian, Memo, and Codex to turn sources, thoughts, and AI conversations into a searchable second brain.
My Input Efficiency Stack: AI Dictation, Chinese Input Methods, and Raycast Clipboard
How I split input into three layers: AI dictation for rough thinking, vChewing for precise Chinese typing, and Raycast Clipboard plus Snippets for reusable text
What to Install on a Mac for Screenshots and Recording: Shottr, Bob, and Recordly to Make Captures Beautiful and Powerful
My Mac toolkit for screenshots and screen recording: Shottr replaces the built-in capture with sharper, more powerful features, Bob fills in the OCR and translation gaps, and Recordly produces polished tutorial videos — three tools that cover the full daily capture-and-record workflow.
Multi-Account Bookkeeping: How I Track Credit Cards, Loans, Reimbursements, and Stocks in Qianji
Why does expense tracking fall apart over time? My multi-account bookkeeping workflow for credit cards, loans, reimbursements, and stocks, built around Qianji.
OrbStack: The Apple Silicon-Native Docker Desktop Alternative
Docker Desktop on Mac is slow, hot, and drains your battery — switch to OrbStack, rewritten on Virtualization.framework and Rosetta, and your full-stack containers finally run like native apps
Velja: A URL Router for macOS — Every Link Has Its Own Destination
macOS's default browser is a dumb one-to-one mapping, but links have many identities — using Velja's Picker, Rules, and Apps mechanisms to route every link to the right browser, the right profile, or even the right desktop app
A Better Inbox: Managing Email with Gmail Filters, Spark, and Account Splitting
Treat your inbox like an information pipeline: use multiple Gmail accounts to route by type, Filters to auto-archive, Spark for layered reading, and Mailtrack to close the loop on sent mail
Arc Browser: The Best Browser UX I've Ever Used
Looking back at Arc's Peek, Spaces, Command Bar, and vertical sidebar from a digital productivity perspective — why these details combine into the ceiling of browser UX
Switching from Arc to Zen Browser: Three Months In
Three months of notes on migrating after Arc stopped development — documenting how much of Arc's workflow Zen's workspaces, Command Bar, and Split View manage to replicate, and the reasons I still haven't fully closed Arc
It Took Three Rewrites to Figure It Out: A Complete Personal Website Workflow from Stack to Bilingual Publishing
From hand-coded Bootstrap to Python templates to Astro — sharing the complete workflow I landed on after rebuilding my personal site three times: stack choices, automated deployment, domains, Claude Code for styling, the bilingual content pipeline, and how I codified my voice rules into BRAND_VOICE and custom skills
How to Configure Claude Code: Status Line, CLAUDE.md, and Custom Skills
A Claude Code setup guide for AI developers, covering Status Line, CLAUDE.md, and custom Skills for a more stable AI development workflow
Tinkering with Digital Music: From Plex to a Custom Tag Management System
A full-stack developer's approach to digital music — how I built a complete music server setup using Navidrome alongside a custom tag management system
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