App Defaults
by AnttiThere are a lot of posts like this, but this one's mine. App defaults รกla https://defaults.rknight.me/:
- ๐จ Mail Client: Fastmail's web UI on desktop, Mail.app on iOS
- ๐ฎ Mail Server: Fastmail
- ๐ Notes: Bear, Obsidian
- Bear for personal things
- I've been kicking the tires of Obsidian for work stuff, just to keep them separate from personal notes
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To-Do: Due, Reminders
- I used to be big on GTD and OmniFocus, but at some point it just felt like it took more than it gave me, so I simplified
- Due is great because it keeps on reminding me as I keep ignoring it
- ๐ท iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
- The power of defaults is strong here
- ๐ฆ Photo Management: Photos
- ๐ Calendar: BusyCal
- ๐ Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
- ๐ RSS: Feedbin, NetNewsWire
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Contacts: ...uhhh... the Phone app?
- ๐ Browser: Arc, Safari, Firefox
- Once you get used to Arc, it's really hard to switch away. I use Arc on my work laptop
- Safari is still the go-to on iOS and it's also usually open on my work laptop too
- Firefox is great on Windows!
- ๐ฌ Chat: Slack, Telegram
- ๐ Bookmarks: Pinboard but I use it so rarely it can hardly be mentioned
- ๐ Read It Later: Safari's Reading list
- ...although more often than not, sending a message to myself in Telegram
- ๐ Word Processing: N/A
- Funny to think about since using Word was so important during my university days, but I cannot remember the last time I really used a word processor to do word processing. It's plain text all the time all the way these days
- ๐ Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- ๐ Presentations: N/A
- Well actually it's the Google Whatever, but I use it so rarely it's not making the list
- ๐ Shopping Lists: Buy me a pie
- Actively looking for a replacement but I'm so picky it's hard! Really tempted to just build my own
- ๐ด Meal Planning: N/A
- ๐ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: N/A
- I guess I should grow up and start to do something here but ๐คทโโ๏ธ
- ๐ฐ News: N/A
- I do read a lot of news, but the app I use for that purpose is a web browser
- ๐ต Music: YouTube Music
- Not particularly happy with this, but it plays music when I ask it to
- ๐ค Podcasts: Overcast
- ๐ Password Management: 1Password
- Been using for a loooong time but the user experience seems to be going downhill all the time. I guess I'm happy about the security side, but gosh darn it how hard can it be to make the autocomplete do anything at all when I rageclick it over and over again?!
Bonus #
- ๐ฅ๏ธ Terminal: Kitty
- iTerm 2 is just fine, I use Kitty only to feel special
- ๐ Launcher: Alfred
- Bought a lifetime license, so thanks to sunk cost fallacy, cannot even consider these newfangled raycasts and all
- ๐ Code editor: VS Code
- I tend to swing back and forth between VS Code and Neovim, but like in a dysfunctional relationship, always after a rough drunken night I find myself at the comforting lap of VS Code. I should seek therapy
- ๐ข๏ธ Database client: Postico
- It's only for Postgres, but are there any other databases even?
- ๐ถ Music making: Ableton Live
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