Default apps

There’s a fun trend on Mastodon, listing one’s default apps; here’s mine.

Everything’s been very stable for years, with a couple new entries in 2023: GoodLinks replaced Pocket, iTerm stole Terminal.app job and VSCode, surprisingly, entered my life despite being a disgusting Electron app.

Oh, I was to lazy to add links (with one exception ;) and there are a couple additional sections I didn’t see in other lists at the bottom.

  • 📨 Mail Client: Mail.app on all devices
  • 📮 Mail Service: iCloud, including custom domains
  • 📝 Notes: Drafts and Notes.app
  • ✅ To-Do: OmniFocus
  • 📓 Scratchpad: Drafts
  • 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app
  • 🎇 Photo Editing: Pixelmator Pro
  • 🟦 Photo Management: Photos.app
  • 📆 Calendar: BusyCal on macOS and Calendar.app on iOS
  • 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive, Dropbox (via Maestral), BackBlaze
  • 📖 RSS: News Explorer
  • 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts.app
  • 🌐 Browser: Safari, occasionally Edge
  • 💬 Chat: iMessage and Slack
  • 🔖 Bookmarks: GoodLinks
  • 📑 Read It Later: GoodLinks
  • 📔 Journal: Day One
  • 🛒 Shopping Lists: Shoppylist
  • 🍴 Meal Planning: nope
  • 🎥 Media Tracking: Plex
  • 🎵 Music: Apple Music
  • 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
  • 🔐 Password Management: 1Password SEVEN
  • 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory
  • ⌨️ Launcher: Alfred
  • 🛤️ Habit etc. Tracking: Streaks
  • 🌤️ Weather: Weather.app and Yahoo Weather
  • 👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: iTerm

  • 🧮 Code Editor: Xcode and VSCode

  • 🍿 Video player: VLC
  • 📁 Database: Airtable
  • 🤖 Automation: Keyboard Maestro, Hazel
  • 👀 IP Camera Viewer: GlanceCam