A lot of very cool people I know on the internet are writing about what their default apps of choice are, inspired by a recent episode of the podcast Hemispheric Views.

Ever someone willing to share his unnecessarily non-standard setup, I figured “eh, I’ll write up my list too.”

Here goes…

📨 Mail Client - Mimestream on computer,  Mail on mobile devices.

📮 Mail Server - Google Workspace

📝 Notes - Bear

✅ To-Do - Things

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting -  Camera

🟦 Photo Management -  Photos, usually edited with either Photomator, Pixelmator Pro or Affinity Photo 2

📆 Calendar - Fantastical

📁 Cloud File Storage - Google Drive (for what needs to be shared) and iCloud (for my own stuff)

📖 RSS - Reeder, using Feedbin as the backend

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts -  Contacts

🌐 Browser - Safari

💬 Chat - iMessage

🔖 Bookmarks - I don’t really keep bookmarks? Most of what I’d want I keep in…

📑 Read It Later - Instapaper

📜 Word Processing - Pages

📈 Spreadsheets - Numbers

📊 Presentations - Keynote

🛒 Shopping Lists - An  Note shared with my lovely wife

🍴 Meal Planning - I don’t, but I should…

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance - Well, it was Mint. Maybe YNAB next?

📰 News - Reeder mostly, with a touch of  News+ (I mean, it’s part of Apple One, so…)

🎵 Music -  Music

🎤 Podcasts - Overcast

🔐 Password Management - 1Password

What are you using, dear reader?