General:
- Directory Opus paid version (central to pretty much everything I do on PC).
Separate software, most used:
- ShareX (most productive one imho)
- Agent Ransack for indexed searches
- Also dnGrep to find stuff more specific in local html pages, on the spot
- Logtech software for mouse gestures (I swear by Logitech)
- Winxvideo AI for large downloads (excellent control over wanted filesize etc).
- Smaller downloads via yt-dlp tool (standalone version for windows), launched via a Opus dialog and Powershell script.
Some of the most productive tools used from within Opus:
- yt-dlp (see above)
- Long series of shortcuts on a small Opus toolbar (appearance:no frame) fixed to the top of my screen, making windows start laucher mostly obsolete, as this bar can easily host over 50 small icons.
- All sorts of specific column setups for visualizing lists of video's, ebooks, word documents, html files, text files.
- One button for starting the right editor for anything I throw at it
- One button for viewing anything I trow at it (detects video size before opening the Opus viewer, shows html files in a specific size, etc).
- Massive use of Opus icon labels (but thinking of replacing it with sets of flags in the filenames - still managed within Opus).
- Opus Sync for backups
Browsers:
- Edge for most stuff (love its vertical tabs and its performance, and for me it has now “the edge” over Chrome)
- Chrome with different profiles (and plugins) for specific tasks/ sites
- Firefox: now only used for its cache (yt-dlp makes the best use of it)
Browser plugins:
- Browser plugin Tampermonkey (e.g. for reading reddit with automatically opening sub-conversations)
- As simple browser plugin to copy Url + Page title (separated by “|”) to the clipboard - both then immediately being picked up by aforementioned DOpus control (when it's open) in order to start a download.
- Raindrop.io for bookmark management (+ next to Edge bookmarks)
- SingleFile for saving interesting long-read pages to disk in a single html file (+ highlights)
- The zillionth Youtube Ad Auto-skipper (only working partially: starts sound again automatically after ad)
- Youtube Playlist alphabetical A-Z sorting
Following world & political news:
- Ground news for most news (its assessment of left/right bias seems excellent)
- Feedly Pro for its excellent AI-supported compilation of important feeds