Default Apps 2023

(Saw this on Matt C.’s blog and following suit.)

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📨 Mail Client: Mimestream

📮 Mail Server: Google

📝 Notes: Professionally: Notion. Personal & Quick scratchpad: Bear.

✅ To-Do: Things

📷 Photo Shooting: Mostly: iPhone 14. When specifically out shooting photos: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV.

🎨 Photo Editing: Mostly: Photos. Sometimes: Photoshop or Acorn.

📆 Calendar: Busycal through Google Calendar.

📁 Cloud File Storage: Mostly: Dropbox. Sometimes: iCloud Drive (for apps that do it by default I don’t care that much about the file locations)

📖 RSS: Feedbin

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: macOS Contacts

🌐 Browser: Desktop: Arc. iOS: Safari (as I’m forced to).

💬 Chat: In order of quantity: Discord, Slack, Messages, WhatsApp

🔖 Bookmarks: Arc & Notion Web Clipper (and it depends)

📑 Read It Later: Notion Web Clipper & Feedbin

📜 Word Processing: Rarely: Pages

📈 Spreadsheets: Equal parts rare: Excel, Numbers, and Google Sheets

📊 Presentations: Keynote

🛒 Shopping Lists: Randomly: Things, Notes, Bear

🍴 Meal Planning: N/A (😬)

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: N/A (😬)

📰 News: Apple News, RSS

🎵 Music: Myself: Apple Music. Family: Spotify.

🎤 Podcasts: Overcast

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

🧑‍💻 Code Editor: VS Code, CodePen

✈️ VPN: Work: Tailscale. Toying with: NextDNS.

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I’ll add some bonus apps I really like: Paste (clipboard manager), TablePlus (visual tool for databases), Raycast (search/utility commands), Screen Studio (fancy screencasts), and CleanShot X (annotated screenshots & quick videos).

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In search of: a color picker with nice features that does P3 color in various modern CSS formats.