It’s a nerdy tradition to include a kit list, so here’s the stuff I use in the Pope Cave.
General
- Laptop: MacBook Pro M2
- Headset: HyperX Cloud
Software
- Writing: Scrivener
- Video editing: Adobe Premiere Pro
- Motion graphics: Adobe After Effects
- Image wrangling: Adobe Photoshop
- Vector images: Adobe Illustrator
- Typesetting: Adobe InDesign
- Productivity: TextExpander
- Automation: Hazel
- Backing up: ChronoSync
- Transcription: MacWhisper
- Note-taking: Obsidian
- Audio note-taking: AudioPen
- Coding: Visual Studio Code
Utilities
- Amphetamine (for keeping my laptop awake)
- CopyClip (for keeping dozens of things on my clipboard)
- Jettison (for safely ejecting my external drive when my MacBook nods off)
- Rectangle Pro for organising my windows into custom tiles.
Video Equipment
- Camera: Canon M50
- Microphone: Blue Yeti
- Boom: Tiger Microphone Stand
- Softbox Lighting: Neewer Lighting Kit
- LED lights: Neewer Video Lights
- Green screen: Neewer Collapsible Background
- Teleprompter: TeleprompterPAD
- Stream deck: Elgato Stream Deck (difficult to use, now that MacBooks come with so few USB ports)