A list of my favourite and most used things.
Basics
- Macbook Pro M1 2021 - Still works just as well as day one. For blogging, browsing and editing photos.
- Custom made PC with windows 11 - My trading station.
- iPad Pro 12.9 with the pencil - Used for reading piano music, cooking recipes, note taking, reading comics, browsing web.
- Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Generation from 2013 - Undeadable, unkillable, the battery still lasts about 3 weeks with me reading everyday and a couple months if I'm not reading.
- Xiaomi 15 Ultra - Incredible camera with a phone attached to it.
Writing
- VS Code - For writing code.
- Typora - For writing markdown. I use this as a qualitative trading journal, together with excel for quantitative data.
- Noteful - Note-taking app for the iPad.
- Bellemond - Magnetic screen protector for the iPad.
- Leuchtturm Some Lines a Day - A 5-year journal.
Drawing
If you are in Europe, head to a local or online art supply store, instead of Amazon. Everything is cheaper on the real shops than chez Bezos!
- Royal Talens Art Creation Sketchbook - Love the A5 size, love the 140/gsm paper, love the price, love that they work for mixed media and even light watercolors.
- Waterproof ink pens: Uniball eye/vision micro, Uniball uni pin fineliners, and Pigma microns. I have several in different sizes, for sketching.
- Fountain pens: Lamy Safari, Pilot Kaküno and Platinum Preppy, all with F nibs. I use them for daily journaling.
- Winsor & Newton Cotman Sketchers' Pocket Set with 12 half pans - I like this a lot. The little brush is useless.
- Escoda Versàtil watercolor brushes in sizes 2, 6 and 10. Absolutely amazing, worth every cent.
Music
- Yamaha CLP 735 - My digital piano.
- ForScore - iPad app for reading and annotating sheet music. A must have.
- Piano Career Academy - Online platform by teacher Ilinca Vartic for learning classical piano. The closest thing to an IRL piano teacher. Love.
- Qobuz - Music streaming service. Quality is incredible on my airpods and even on our shitty car speakers (not an audiophile by any means, but I can definitely hear a difference). It actually pays artists. Little to none AI music.
Photography
Workflow
- DxO Photolab 9 - Image editing. The raw processing engine is amazing, the best I've ever seen (much, much better than Adobe's Camera Raw).
- Excire Foto 2025 - A great DAM for organizing and managing large photo libraries.
Gear
- Fuji X-E4 with the 23mm 2.8 - My EDC.
- Xiaomi 15 Ultra - My new EDC.
- Canon 5D Mark III
- Canon 5D Classic
- Canon EOS 3 - Love this 35mm film camera, that focus eye control thing is awesome.
- Canon EOS 300 - Was also sold as Rebel 2000 and Kiss III back in the days. I have used it more than the EOS 3 due to the weight, for traveling.
- Canon lenses I have and love: Canon 70-200L 2.8 II, Canon 24-70L 2.8 II, Canon 50L 1.2, Tamron 90 macro 2.8, Canon 35 f/2, Canon tilt-shift 45
- Canon lenses I have and don't love: Canon tilt-shift 24 (mark I), Sigma 24-70 2.8, Sigma 50 1.8
- Mamiya 645 with 80 2.8
- Olympus Trip 35
- Minolta XG-1 with 50 1.8 - My first camera.
- Fuji Instax Link Wide printer
- Canon Selphy CP1500
Trading
- Sierra Chart for charting.
- StreamDeck 15 keys for quickly entering and exiting positions, and for chart drawings.
Kitchen
- Jura Impressa F70 - The BEST coffee machine. Ever. Period.
- Kenwood Major Titanium KM023 with a ton of accessories - Machine that does it all.
- Instant Pot - Use it weekly for homemade yogurt, pot of beans, steamed veggies, and rice.
- Cosori TurboBlaze air fryer - A new addition, still learning to use it.
- Le Creuset - Love. I use my two round cocottes for everything, from baking bread to making pasta sauce. I also have several mini cocottes and ramekins, a couple skillets, a wine pump and two wine coolers!
- OXO Good Grips Precision Pour Dispenser - I got tired of olive oil sprays breaking down after a year and decided to get this gorgeous glass dispenser instead. If I really need to "spray" something, I just brush it instead.
- Philips Pasta Maker 7000 - LOVE and cannot live without! We simply stopped buying dry pasta completely, and make our own fresh homemade pasta 3 to 5 times a week.
Fitness
Once our local gym closed because of the covid pandemic, we invested in home-gym equipment. My husband uses it way more than me, but honestly, it is great being able to just go into the room for a bit, workout, shower in my own bathroom and waltz back into my office at any time.
- Sole F85 treadmill - I wish the screen could be used to play videos from my phone; as it is, it only shows stats. I also wish the shortcut buttons for incline and speed were linear, like, give me all the numbers from 1 to 15 instead of jumping from 1 to 3 to 6... Going up is too much of a speed jump, going down almost stalls the machine. And then I need to use the tiny buttons on the arm handles to go from 3 to 6 in decimal increments: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3....4.8... 5.9...6. Ridiculous. Apart from that, its a pretty good machine.
- Inspire FT2 with the accessories pack, bench and leg machine - It is great and does almost everything.