I think you should give `mise` a chance. I believe it can help improve your workflow.

It's better at managing tools than `asdf`, very close to `direnv` and superior to `make` as a task runner (more verbose but much easier to understand). One of the advantages is that `mise` tasks can be standalone files (you can even write file tasks in python if you prefer, see https://mise.jdx.dev/tasks/file-tasks.html)