dddominikk / journo-utils

Utilities I use in my journalism work, ranging from investigative research to task tracking.

journo-utils

Some utilities that I use in my journalism work. They help with everything from surveying public sources and doing meaningful data analysis to gig tracking and invoicing automation.

PC Setup

AKA my Essential Windows apps

• system accent color: #ff1e62
• code snippets that follow are meant to be used in PowerShell, unless stated otherwise

7zip

Chocolatey

Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://community.chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))

• run with elevated privileges

Git

choco install git.install

• this method requires Chocolatey
• it also requires pointing Windows to a Git installation using the Path environmental variable

Razer Synapse

Microsoft PowerToys

winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget

Photoshop

qBittorrent

Spotify

Visual Studio Code

Windows Terminal