Mr. 🕶 Millennial uses and recommends the following tools and services.
Physical Technology
- iPad Pro 10.5
- Apple Smart Keyboard
- Apple Pencil
- Apple Watch Series 3
- iPhone 7
- MacBook Pro 15″
- HTC Vive Virtual Reality Headset
- QNAP NAS
Travel
- Detour – Audio walking tours at your own pace (using your phone’s GPS)
- Amazon Prime – Gives access to ebooks, 2 day shipping, TV and Movies
- AirBnB – Rent someone’s apartment; cheaper and more personal than a hotel
- Lyft – Taxi you can call from your phone (avoid Uber—terrible business practices)
Knowledge/Learning/News
- Blinkist
- TED
- Medium
- NextDraft – Superbly curated and written weekday email newsletter on the day’s top news
- PDF Expert – best iPad PDF reader with annotation features
- Reeder + Inoreader – M🕶M’s current RSS reading app and service respectively; Inoreader provides unmatched feed filtering tools
Organization
- Ulysses (Previously: Evernote) – digital notebook
- ScanBot – app for digitizing your paper
- iCloud (Previously: Dropbox) – cloud file storage
- Backblaze – Unlimited cloud backup
- Fantastical – fantastic calendar
- Cardhop – contacts manager by the makers of Fantastical
Finances
- Wealthfront – Automated investment services for a fraction of the cost of traditional investment companies
- Robinhood – Stock trading for FREE