This is the third year I’ve been doing a Default Apps list. The categories here are based on the app categories discussed in Hemispheric Views 097 – Duel of the Defaults! podcast. I placed a 🆕 icon in every category where I changed the app compared to last year.
- 📨 🆕 Mail Client: Apple Mail
- 📮 Mail Server: Office365
- 📝 🆕 Notes: Mechanical pencil and Paper (Moleskine)
- ✅ To-Do: Things
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera
- 🟦 Photo Management: Adobe Lightroom Classic for editing and Photos for organization
- 📆 Calendar: Fantastical Calendar
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
- 📖 🆕 RSS: Tapestry
- 🙍🏻Contacts: Apple Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Safari and Edge for work
- 💬 🆕 Chat: Messages, WhatsApp, and Signal got added to the list this year.
- 🔖 🆕 Bookmarks: LinkAce
- 📑 🆕 Things
- 📜 Word Processing: Word
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Excel
- 📊 Presentations: PowerPoint
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Things
- 🍴 Meal Planning: Pen and Paper
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Banktivity
- 📰 News: NRC, NOS and Tweakers.net
- 🎵 Music: Apple Music
- 🎤 🆕 Podcasts: Castro
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
Extra categorieën die destijds niet in de podcast werden besproken:
- 🔖
Journal: Day One - 🚀 Launcher: Alfred
- 🗺️ Maps: Apple Maps
- 🔐 🆕 VPN: Self-hosted always-on VPN on my Unifi Cloud Gateway Fiber
- 🌦️ Weather: Carrot Weather