Default Apps 2023

i’m joining in on the app defaults trend inspired by Hemispheric Views 097 - Duel of the Defaults!.

i became aware of it thanks to bryce wray’s article.

apps having the apple logo () refer to the built-in apple apps on mac and/or ios.

• 📨 Mail Client:  Mail.app
• 📮 Mail Server: google mail
• 📝 Notes: zed + local folder of markdown files + sync to  iCloud Drive
• ✅ To-Do: togodo (personal go implementation of topydo)
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting:  Camera.app
• 📚 Photo Management:  Photos.app
• 🗓️ Calendar:  Calendar.app | google calendar | dato
• 🗄️ Cloud file storage:  iCloud Drive
• 📰 RSS: netnewswire backed by  iCloud Drive
• 📇 Contacts:  Contacts.app
• 🕸️ Browser: orion (just switched from  Safari.app) | google chrome (@work) | brave (dev)
• 💬 Chat: whatsapp
• 🔖 Bookmarks: none
• 👓 Read It Later: none
• 📜 Word Processing: zed | vscode
• 📊 Spreadsheets: microsoft excel | google sheets (@work)
• 🛝 Presentations: google slides (work)
• 🛒 Shopping Lists:  Reminders.app
• 🧑‍🍳 Meal Planning: none
• 💰 Budgeting & Personal Finance: gledger (personal go wrapper around hledger & workflow)
• 🗞️ News: x
• 🎶 Music: spotify
• 🎧 Podcasts: none
• 🔐 Password Management: bitwarden | pass

Other apps

• swiftbar: put stuff on the  macos menu bar
• velja: browser picker with a powerful rules engine
• forklift 4: file manager, since i don’t like .DS_Store files and their timestamp modifying ways