What are your favorite tools?

d675 12 points 9 comments November 11, 2026
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I’m really liking: Hex: voice to text locally. Better than Handy Paper2audio.com : TTS on cloud for books and very generous free tier. Synchronized across web and app too

Discussion Highlights (7 comments)

jesterson

VoiceInk for voice2text DEVONThink to organise/protect data

brysonnylander

Tessera Keyboard: I can never use a qwerty keyboard on Android ever again after trying this out

phillennium

Terminal part: Ghostty + tmux + different CLI apps such as vim and glow (the latter is for reading Markdown in terminal in a pretty way, since everything is Markdown now). Voice to text: currently Handy, but you got me curious enough to try Hex. AI agent harness: Happy (disclaimer: I'm affiliated). Open source, and it's letting me use subs I already had + local models a bit.

benrutter

Ah, I can't resist these! I work a lot in the terminal: - Alacritty - zellij - helix - fish-shell Non terminal stuff (do operating systems count): - Zen browser - /e/os - elementary OS I've had a lot of fun playing around with pi and ollama recently too.

slipwalker

a shovel, sometimes a hatchet :>

kingkongjaffa

Impact Drivers are far superior to drills for driving bolts and screws. Couldn't imagine not using them now.

kingkongjaffa

why is hex better than Handy? I feel like you need to give an explanation there. Handy running Parakeet is fine for my use.

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