Kavir Kaycee | Product Management

Updated: 22nd June 2022

What hardware do you use?

I am currently using two different laptops across Mac and Windows ecosystems. The Windows one is an MSI GF65 Thin Core i7 9th Gen gaming laptop. I have it hooked up to an external Dell monitor at home.

For my portable computing at a coffee shop I use my old MacBook Air Late 2018. It’s not as powerful now with OS updates and the butterfly keyboard gives me issues with double presses and random keys getting smashed, but so far it has been tolerable. I am looking to replace it with either an M2 MacBook Air 2 or an M1 Pro MacBook Pro.

I use an iPhone 13 Pro Max as my primary device and OnePlus 7 as my Android device (keeping the theme of using two different ecosystems)

I have an M1 iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil and Logitech keyboard that I use for basic note-taking, writing, and content consumption. I own a Kindle Paperwhite 300dpi, that I never use lol. I do most of my reading on my phone with Google Play Books.

In peripherals, I use a mechanical keyboard with blue switches (that I am planning to replace), a Logitech MX Master 3 wireless mouse, a Logitech C922 Pro 1080p webcam, a Blue Snowball external mic.

And what software?

Oooh let's see where to start. For note-taking I use a combination of Roam and Notion. I use Roam for daily note-taking and use it as my RAM. Wrote more about how I use Roam here.

The second tool I use for writing is Notion. I use Notion to host this website, write playbooks for my team, Kanban board for writing workflow, write Product Specs and a bunch of other things. A detailed post might be required on how I use Notion.

I also use Google Docs for collaborative editing. More on my writing workflow here.

Todoist is still my to-do list of choice. It has a bunch of features that is retaining me - natural language for dates, recurring tasks, Google Cal 2-way sync, timeboxing, and a Karma score to keep me trying to achieve more.

Google Play books allows me to highlight and take notes on the phone, and instantly share screenshots of highlights on WhatsApp and Twitter.

As a Product Manager for work I use the dreaded JIRA for task management, it's slow as hell and I would really like to use Linear for task management instead; Notion for Product Specs; Meeting notes and a bunch of other use cases; Google Sheets for any spreadsheet tasks; Gmail for email; Slack for team communication; Notability on iPad for sketches; Figma for designing/commenting; Google Calendar web for calendar; Sidekick (Chromium based) as my browser of choice.

I use aText as my phrase expander for the last 8 years. It's a wonderful tool that does spelling/grammar checks. Spotify for music since 2012 as well as podcasts.

For tracking habits, I use this app called Loop Habits on Android. it's been wonderful and has kept me on my habits since I started tracking my habits in 2017.

Relay for reddit; Insight Timer for meditation; Progression for tracking workouts; smallcase and Coin for investments; Cred for credit card payments; CoinDCX for crypto.

The usuals – WhatsApp for communication; Official Twitter app for Twitter; Uber for getting around; Google Pay for UPI payments.

What would be your dream setup?

My dream setup would include — 14 inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro with the better keyboard, a new 4K 120Hz Monitor, Keychron K2 v2 mechanical keyboard with brown switches, and a Shure MV7 external mic. You can buy me a coffee to fund these expenses 😅

What do you use? Let me know on Twitter

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