App Defaults
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The year is drawing to a close and a not so uninteresting list is making the rounds among bloggers: App Defaults. The whole thing was triggered by Episode 097 of Hemispheric Views, Duel of the Defaults! An these are mine:
- Mail Client: Mail.app, Spark
- Mail Server: Gmail
- Notes: Obsidian, Drafts
- To-Do: Reminder.app
- iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app
- Photo Management: Apple Photos
- Calendar: Google Calendar via Calendar.app
- Cloud File Storage: iCloud, Nextcloud (selfhosted)
- RSS service: FreshRSS (selfhosted)
- RSS client: Reeder
- Contacts: Contacts.app
- Browser: Safari, Chrome
- Chat: WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord
- Bookmarks: LinkAce (selfhosted)
- Read It Later: Reeder
- Word Processing: Word
- Spreadsheets: Excel
- Presentations: Powerpoint
- Shopping Lists: Bring!
- Meal Planning: Not needed, the children only eat pasta with ketchup
- Budgeting and Personal Finance: Banking App
- News: RND
- Music: Spotify
- Podcasts: Podcasts.app, Spotify
- Password Management: iCloud Keychain, 1Password
Additional categories:
- Social Media: Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram
- Code Editor: Nova, neovim
- Blog: Datenstrom Yellow (selfhosted)
- Terminal: iTerm2 with ZSH and Oh-My-Zsh