Read about the ongoing Default Apps project first at Chris Coyier’s blog. Tracing back to where it started seems to be the Hemispheric Views podcast. During this back and forth of opening links on a Friday night, I got to discover so many new cool personalized blogs through the “Default Apps” list. Decided to jot down my own.
- 📨 Mail Client: Gmail
- 📮 Mail Server: Google
- 📝 Notes: Notion professionally, Obsidian
- ✅ To-Do: Obsidian
- 📷 Photo Shooting: iPhone 12 mini Camera app
- 🟦 Photo Management: iCloud
- 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar and Google Calendar (professionally)
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud for some applications to sync between both phone and laptop
- 📖 RSS: N/A
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Chrome professionally on desktop and iOS, Brave and Safari personal
- 💬 Chat: Slack, Telegram
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Obsidian
- 📑 Read It Later: Obsidian
- 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs and (rarely) Pages
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets and Numbers
- 📊 Presentations: (rarely) Google Slides
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Notes
- 🍴 Meal Planning: N/A
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: N/A
- 📰 News: N/A
- 🎵 Music: (used to be) Spotify
- 🎤 Podcasts: (used to be) Spotify, now Apple Podcasts
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
Now, there are a few categories I want to add myself:
- 🧑💻 Code Editor: VS Code
- 👾 Terminal Emulator: iTerm
- 🌌 (Annotated) Screenshots and quick videos: CleanShot X
This covers app the list of apps that I use almost daily either for work or for personal use.