My Default Apps end of 2023

As I’ve been trying to make my blog and site a bit more useful and accessible, I’ve been scouring other blogs. I think that personal websites are some of the more exciting bits of the web at the moment.

On a few of the blogs I follow, there’s been a trend in listing default apps. I’ve seen this on Matt Birchler and Kev Quirk’s blogs

These things change, so it’ll be fun to see what’s stuck when I look back later.

• ✉️ Mail service: Fastmail
• 📬 Mail client(s): Apple Mail
• ✅ Tasks: Obsidian
• 📰 RSS service: Inoreader
• 🗞️ RSS client: Inoreader
• ⌨️ Launcher: Raycast
• ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud and Google
• 🌅 Photo library: iCloud
• 🤳🏻 Photo editing: Don’t do a lot of this
• 🌐 Web browser: Arc on Mac, Chrome on phone
• 📆 Calendar: Cron
• 📖 Reading: Pocket
• 🌤️ Weather: BBC Weather
• 🎙️ Podcasts: Pocketcasts
• 🎶 Music: Apple Music
• 🛹 Clipboard manager: Raycast Clipboard History
• 🔐 Passwords: 1Password
• 💸 Budgeting: Buckets in Starling
• 💬 Transcriptions: None at the moment
• 🐘 Mastodon: Trying a few Toot and Mastodon
• 🍿 Movie discovery/tracking: None
• 💁🏻‍♂️ Social: Mastodon and Twitter
• 🎮 First game I play each morning: Guardian Quick Crossword
• 🖼️ Screenshots: CleanShot X
• 🎞️ Video editing: ScreenFlow
• 📝 Notes: Obsidian
• 🧮 Code Editor: Visual Studio Code
• 👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: kitty
• 🔎 Search: Google or ChatGPT
• ✈️ Flight tracking: Flight Radar
• 📦 Package tracking: None