Default apps for 2023

There have been a bunch of โ€œwhat apps am I using?โ€ blog posts recently, inspired by an episode of Hemispheric Views. Robb Knight has a page with links to other peopleโ€™s posts.

Hereโ€™s my list:

  • ๐Ÿ“จ Mail Client: Hey
  • ๐Ÿ“ฎ Mail Server: Fastmail and Hey
  • ๐Ÿ“ Notes: Ulysses
  • โœ… To-Do: Basecamp, GitHub, and Ulysses
  • ๐Ÿ“ท iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
  • ๐ŸŒ… Photo Management: Apple Photos and Dropbox
  • ๐Ÿ“† Calendar: Fantastical (iOS) and Apple Calendar (macOS)
  • ๐Ÿ“ Cloud File Storage: Dropbox
  • ๐Ÿ“– RSS: NetNewsWire and Feedbin
  • ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Contacts: Apple Contacts
  • ๐ŸŒ Browser: Safari
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat: Messages and Slack
  • ๐Ÿ”– Bookmarks: Micro.blog
  • ๐Ÿ“‘ Read It Later: Micro.blog
  • ๐Ÿ“œ Word Processing: Pages and Google Docs
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Spreadsheets: Numbers and Google Sheets
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Presentations: Keynote
  • ๐Ÿ›’ Shopping Lists: none
  • ๐Ÿด Meal Planning: none
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: Numbers
  • ๐Ÿ“ฐ News: Safari and YouTube TV
  • ๐ŸŽต Music: Spotify
  • ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Podcasts: Overcast
  • ๐Ÿ” Password Management: 1Password
  • ๐Ÿค– Code Editing: Nova and Xcode
  • ๐Ÿ“š Books: Kindle
  • ๐ŸŒŽ Blogging: Micro.blog

I added a few at the end that Iโ€™ve seen other folks use even if they werenโ€™t in the original list. There is scoring too, but I donโ€™t understand how it works. ๐Ÿ™‚

Chris Enns

Interesting that you use Fantastical on iOS but not on macOS? Any particular reason or just never got around to installing it on the laptop?

Manton Reece

@iChris I think it was a separate purchase (I'm not on the subscription plan) and I just didn't feel that I needed it. I love it on iOS where for me it brings the most benefit.

Andrew Canion

how could you not understand the scoring? It was logical and highly scientific. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

Gabz

Iโ€™m sure @canion was scoring in Celsius ๐Ÿ˜…

Paweล‚ Orzech

interesting - do you use only Safari as your browser? No chrome-ish at all?

Leon Mika

@Gaby He was scoring in metric. ๐Ÿ˜‚

Manton Reece

@pawel Yeah, 95% Safari. I have Firefox and Chrome if I need them, but I don't have a lot of gripes with Safari.

rom

@pawel No Chrome-BS here, too! :)

//Jason

Heeeyyy! ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ˜€

Manton Reece @manton
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