Following up on Manton Reece’s default apps post, here’s my list for 2023:

  • 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail
  • 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
  • 📝 Notes: Craft
  • ✅ To-Do: Things and GitHub
  • 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
  • 🌅 Photo Management: Apple Photos
  • 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
  • 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud
  • 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire and Feedbin
  • 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
  • 🌐 Browser: Firefox Developer Edition (development) and Arc (everything else)
  • 💬 Chat: Messages and Slack
  • 🔖 Bookmarks: Crafts and my own Raycast plugin
  • 📑 Read It Later: Things and Craft
  • 📜 Word Processing: none
  • 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
  • 📊 Presentations: Keynote
  • 🛒 Shopping Lists: none
  • 🍴 Meal Planning: just started using Paprika
  • 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB
  • 📰 News: My RSS feeds, newsletters (mostly NYT and The Athletic) and some podcasts. This would deserve its own post.
  • 🎵 Music: Spotify
  • 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
  • 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
  • 🤖 Code Editing: Xcode and Visual Studio Code
  • 📚 Books: none
  • 🌎 Blogging: Micro.blog
  • 🗒️ Scratchpad: Drafts and Boop

I added the Scratchpad category at the end. 💻

Mick F @dirtyhenry