App Defaults

There are a lot of posts like this, but this one's mine. App defaults ála https://defaults.rknight.me/:

• 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail's web UI on desktop, Mail.app on iOS
• 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
• 📝 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
• ✅ 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
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
  • The power of defaults is strong here
• 🟦 Photo Management: Photos
• 📆 Calendar: BusyCal
• 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive
• 📖 RSS: Feedbin, NetNewsWire
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: ...uhhh... the Phone app?
• 🌐 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!
• 💬 Chat: Slack, Telegram
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Pinboard but I use it so rarely it can hardly be mentioned
• 📑 Read It Later: Safari's Reading list
  • ...although more often than not, sending a message to myself in Telegram
• 📜 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
• 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
• 📊 Presentations: N/A
  • Well actually it's the Google Whatever, but I use it so rarely it's not making the list
• 🛒 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
• 🍴 Meal Planning: N/A
• 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: N/A
  • I guess I should grow up and start to do something here but 🤷‍♂️
• 📰 News: N/A
  • I do read a lot of news, but the app I use for that purpose is a web browser
• 🎵 Music: YouTube Music
  • Not particularly happy with this, but it plays music when I ask it to
• 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
• 🔐 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 #

• 🖥️ Terminal: Kitty
  • iTerm 2 is just fine, I use Kitty only to feel special
• 🚀 Launcher: Alfred
  • Bought a lifetime license, so thanks to sunk cost fallacy, cannot even consider these newfangled raycasts and all
• 📘 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
• 🛢️ Database client: Postico
  • It's only for Postgres, but are there any other databases even?
• 🎶 Music making: Ableton Live

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