Default Apps for 2023
Inspired by App Defaults by Robb Knight which came from Hemispheric Views 097 – Duel of the Defaults! and this post by Gabz.
Here is my big list of the apps I use in the various categories as written by Adrian:
- 📨 Mail Client: Either web-based or just started using FastMate
- 📮 Mail Server: Mostly Fastmail with a few hangovers in Gmail
- 📝 Notes: Drafts and Obsidian; OneNote for Work, but not by choice
- ✅ To-Do: Omnifocus
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
- 🟦 Photo Management: Photos.app
- 📆 Calendar: Fantastical
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: OneDrive and some iCloud Drive
- 📖 RSS: Reeder by Readwise
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Contacts.app
- 🌐 Browser: Arc
- 💬 Chat: Slack
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Still using Pinboard but this will likely change
- 📑 Read It Later: Reader by Readwise
- 📜 Word Processing: Microsoft Word
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel
- 📊 Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint and iA Presenter
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Drafts and Reminders.app
- 🍴 Meal Planning: n/a
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB – because, You Need a Budget (3 year running and still a life changer)
- 📰 News: Mastodon only
- 🎵 Music: Spotify
- 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
- 🔔 Hard Quiz Special Topic Interlude: Home Automation (Something for Which I'd Be the Subject Matter Expert in the Room)
That's the list for 2023.