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
