It’s been a year since I’ve last written about my defaults apps. A year in and several categories have changed so it feels like a good time update my list!

  • 📧 Mail Client: Outlook (personal) and Gmail (work)
  • 💽 Mail Server: Outlook (personal) and Gmail (work)
  • 📝 Notes: Obsidian (for blog stuff), Apple notes (personal), Google Keep (work)
  • 📋 To-do: Reminders
  • 📷 Phone photo shooting: Camera Control ~80% of the time, swipe left from lock screen otherwise Camera Control to launch the camera
  • 🎞️ Photo Management: Photos.app
  • 📆 Calendar: Calendar.app (personal), Google Calendar (work)
  • 🗃️ Cloud File Storage: OneDrive and iCloud Storage
  • 📖 RSS: Reeder
  • 📇 Contacts: Contacts.app
  • 🛜 Browser: Vivaldi(personal), Edge and Chrome at work Safari (personal), Chrome (work)
  • 🗣️ Chat (not messages): discord mostly, some telegram Discord
  • 📑 Bookmarks: none
  • 🔖 Read It Later: none
  • 📜 Word Processing: Rarely used, but Word when I do need something for this
  • 📋 Spreadsheets: Rarely used, but Excel
  • 🛒 Shopping lists: Reminders.app
  • 🏞️ Presentations: none
  • 🍱 Meal Planning: None
  • 📈 Budgeting and personal finance: Simplifi
  • 📰 News: mostly google, or sometimes Apple news for headline stuff nothing
  • 🎧 Music: Spotify
  • 🫛 Podcasts: Castro Overcast 🙌🏻
  • 🔐 Password Management: 1Password Passwords.app