Angela ChenInterview
Science journalist, writer, editor
Adapted from Angela Chen's interview on Uses This, published 6 August 2020. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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I do phone interviews wearing the Jabra Evolve 75 wireless headset so I can type and transcribe as I talk.
For in-person interviews, I use the Zoom H1 Handy Recorder.
For reading, I like the Kindle Paperwhite.
The best hardware investment I've made in a long time is my Brother HL Laser Printer, which is absolutely worth both the money and the space it takes in my tiny apartment.
I also use yellow legal pads for brainstorming and basically can't write using anything but the Pilot G-2 pens.
Communication
Productivity
I use Trello to keep track of various projects.
Browser
Notes
Coding & Development
Scrivener is great for longer projects, even though I don't touch most of the features.
Media
Other
I pay for Otter Premium to transcribe the calls using AI, though I'm a little iffy on Otter's privacy policies.
As a result, I like the pomodoro technique and use TomatoTimer.
Then, I input the number of pomodoros I do on a particular project to Beeminder, which charts my progress and warns me if I'm going off course.