App Defaults

27 Dec, 2023

I’ve been deliberating what my first post on here should be about – The recent trend of sharing ‘app defaults’ feels as good a topic as any to get the ball rolling!

I usually take a look through the apps I use in the New Year anyway, and the Christmas Break always works as a decent ‘reset’ – It gives me headspace to properly consider (and reconsider) what apps I should/could be using as my daily drivers.

Without further ado:

📨 Mail Clients/Service

• Personal: Gmail
• Work: Outlook

📝 Notes

• Apple Notes
• Craft Docs
• Special mention: Rhodia notebooks!

✅ To-Do

• Personal: Things 3
• Work: TickTick

📷 Photo Shooting

• iPhone 13 Pro Camera App
• Canon M100 camera
  • Canon 22mm f/2.0 lens
  • Sigma 56mm f/1.4 lens

🟦 Photos Management & Editing

• Standard Photos App
• Darkroom

📆 Calendar

• Fantastical Calendar

📅 Calendar Backend

• iCloud

📁 Cloud File Storage

• Google Drive

📖 RSS

• Reeder (backed by Feedly)

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts Management

• Apple Contacts

🔎 Browser

• Mobile: Safari
• Desktop: Chrome

💬 Chat

• iMessage, FB Messanger, WhatsApp

🔖 Bookmarks

• Raindrop.io

📑 Read-it-Later

• Reeder 5

📜 Word Processing

• Word & Google Docs

🛒 Shopping List

• Things 3 list

🍴 Meal Planning

• Pass

💰 Budgeting and Finance

• Google Sheets

📰 News

• Websites: Mainly the BBC, The Guardian, The Verge

☀️Weather

• Apple Weather

🎵 Music

• Spotify

🎤 Podcast

• Overcast (formerly Castro, but their servers started crashing recently)

🔐 Password Management

• iCloud KeyChain
• 1Password 7

📍Maps

• General: Google Maps
• Hiking: Gaia GPS

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