A lot of very cool people I know on the internet are writing about what their default apps of choice are, inspired by a recent episode of the podcast Hemispheric Views.
Ever someone willing to share his unnecessarily non-standard setup, I figured “eh, I’ll write up my list too.”
Here goes…
📨 Mail Client – Mimestream on computer, Mail on mobile devices.
📮 Mail Server – Google Workspace
📝 Notes – Bear
✅ To-Do – Things
📷 iPhone Photo Shooting – Camera
🟦 Photo Management – Photos, usually edited with either Photomator, Pixelmator Pro or Affinity Photo 2
📆 Calendar – Fantastical
📁 Cloud File Storage – Google Drive (for what needs to be shared) and iCloud (for my own stuff)
📖 RSS – Reeder, using Feedbin as the backend
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts – Contacts
🌐 Browser – Safari
💬 Chat – iMessage
🔖 Bookmarks – I don’t really keep bookmarks? Most of what I’d want I keep in…
📑 Read It Later – Instapaper
📜 Word Processing – Pages
📈 Spreadsheets – Numbers
📊 Presentations – Keynote
🛒 Shopping Lists – An Note shared with my lovely wife
🍴 Meal Planning – I don’t, but I should…
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance – Well, it was Mint. Maybe YNAB next?
📰 News – Reeder mostly, with a touch of News+ (I mean, it’s part of Apple One, so…)
🎵 Music – Music
🎤 Podcasts – Overcast
🔐 Password Management – 1Password
What are you using, dear reader?