App Defaults 2024
As I get more into RSS and following developer blogs, I’ve noticed a trend to share app defaults. We often don’t stop and think about the apps we use everyday, so this is a good chance to stop and learn from other developers. As an Android and Linux user, I’ve avoided the Apple default apps over the past few years, despite using a Macbook everyday. I also don’t want to get trapped in the Apple ecosystem, so most of the services I use are open-source (except Google services) or easy to migrate from (e.g. Todoist). I’m also interested in seeing how the apps I use change over time. Here are mine in summer 2024:
- 📮 Mail Server: Protonmail, Riseup and Gmail
- 📨 Mail Client: Webclients of the above
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian (Android), VSCode (Mac)
- ✅ To-Do: Todoist
- 📷 Camera: Pixel 6a Camera app
- 🟦 Photo Management: Photoprism (Docker)
- 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar
- 📁 Cloud Storage: Google Drive
- 📖 RSS: FreshRSS (Docker) and Fluent Reader (Android)
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Google
- 🌐 Browser: Firefox (Nightly on Android, Developer Edition on Mac), Orion (Mac)
- 💬 Chat: WhatsApp and Signal
- 🔖 Bookmarks: N/A
- 📑 Read It Later: Pocket
- 📜 Word Processing: LibreOffice or VSCode
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: N/A
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Todoist
- 🍴 Meal Planning: Mealie (Docker)
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Starling
- 📰 News: RSS (above)
- 🎵 Music: Symfonium (Android) and Plex (Docker)
- 🎤 Podcasts: PocketCasts
- 🔐 Password Management: Bitwarden
Extras
- 💻 Code Editor: VSCode
- 🖥 Terminal: iTerm2
- 🪟 Window Manager: Amethyst and Magnet
- 🚀 Launcher: Raycast
- 🔎 Search: Startpage
- ⌨️ Keyboard sounds: Klack
- 🥡 Font manager: Fontbase
- 📦 Package Manager: Homebrew
- 📹 Video editor: Final Cut Pro
- 🖌️ Design tools: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Bridge), Affinity Designer, Pixelmator
- 🎨 Colour Picker: Sip
- 📸 Screenshot manager: Shottr
- ◻️ Default Colour Theme: Dracula