My default apps of early 2024
While looking through a bunch of different blogs by clicking through some webrings, I found a nice trend. Based on a discussion between the hosts of the Hemispheric Views podcast, people have started to share their default apps for certain activies. I thought why not join them and see if it stays the same in a year.
Here are mine for early 2024
- Mail Client: Mimestream, Mail.app, Gmail
- Mail Server: Fastmail, Gmail
- Notes: Notion
- To-Do: I usually create tasks in Google Calendar
- iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app
- Photo Management: Google Photos
- Calendar: Google Calendar
- Cloud File Storage: Google One + local NAS storage
- RSS: Reeder (synced with self-hosted Miniflux)
- Contacts: Contacts.app synced with Google
- Browser: Safari (just on iOS), Chrome
- Chat: pretty much the whole lineup
- Bookmarks: Raindrop.io, formerly Linkthing (synced with Linkding)
- Read It Later: n/a
- Word Processing: Notion and Google Docs
- Spreadsheets: Notion and Google Docs
- Presentations: Google Docs
- Shopping Lists: n/a
- Meal Planning: Mealie
- Budgeting and Personal Finance: MoneyMoney
- News: tagesschau and Hacker News
- Music: Spotify, Plexamp
- Podcasts: Overcast, Spotify
- Password Management: 1Password
In addition to the “official” list, I would like to add a few more
- Backup: Vorta, Borgmatic (both backing up important stuff to Borgbase)
- Code Editor: Intellij IDEA, Neovim with AstroNvim, VS Code
- Document management: Paperless-ngx
- Launcher: Raycast, Ulie
- Photo editing: Affinity Photo
- Screenshots: Dropshare, ShareX (both uploading to Cloudflare R2)
- Social: Ivory
- Terminal: iTerm2, Blink, Microsoft Terminal
- VPN: Tailscale with Mullvad add-on
- Weather: Weathergraph, formerly CARROT