Apps defaults in 2024
Lists of apps are sweeping the nation! Here's mine.
Basics
- 📬 Mail Client: Spark Mail
- 📮 Mail Server: FastMail and Gmail
- 🗒️ Notes: Obsidian (slowly migrating from Notion)
- ✅ To-Do: Moleskine Actions
- 🌅 Photo Management: Adobe Lightroom
- 📆 Calendar: Moleskine Timepage
- 📦 Cloud file storage: iCloud and Google Drive
- 📖 RSS: Readwise Reader
- 👥 Contacts: Apple Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Arc
- 💬 Chat: too many things
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Readwise Reader
- 📑 Read It Later: Readwise Reader
- 📝 Word Processing: iA Writer
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: iA Presenter
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Moleskine Actions
- 🥘 Meal Planning: Paprika
- 💸 Budgeting & Personal Finance: Soulver and Google Sheets
- 🗞️ News: The New York Times, Rest of World, and RSS
- 🎹 Music: Bandcamp and Doppler
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
- 🔑 Password Management: 1Password
Prompts above are from the App Defaults template, with icons from micro maique.
Other
- Backups: Backblaze and macOS Time Machine (my setup)
- Code Editor: VSCode and Sublime Text
- Git: Graphite
- Graphic Design: Affinity Designer
- Maps: Transit and Google Maps
- Music Organization: Meta and Mp3Tag
- Social Media: Ivory for Mastodon
- Terminal: iTerm2
- Web Hosting: Vercel and Google Cloud Storage
Prompts here are my own additions.
Thanks for reading! If you have questions or want to start a fight over any of these, I'm on Mastodon.