App Defaults 2024

Monday, December 9, 2024

Last year around this time, following Hemispheric Views’s podcast, Dual of the Defaults, many people shared their own default apps. Rob Knight curated them.

I was not one of those people, but with this year approaching its end and with some revisiting the status of their defaults from last year, I thought that I would right that wrong. So here are my App Defaults.

• Mail Client: Apple Mail
• Mail Server: iCloud Mail and a custom email domain
• Notes: iA Writer
• To-Do: Apple Reminders with Calendar 366 front end
• Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
• Photo Management: Apple Photos
• Photo Editing: Apple Photos and Afterlight
• Calendar: Apple Calendar with Calendar 366 front end
• Cloud File Storage: iCloud
• RSS: Sublime Feed
• Contacts: Apple Contacts
• Browser: Apple Safari with Firefox as a backup on MacOS
• Chat: Apple Messages, Signal, WhatsApp
• Word Processing: Apple Pages
• Writing: Drafts / Tot / iA Writer / Ulysses 😊
• Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers
• Shopping Lists: Apple Notes
• News: FT Edit, Webpage and App
• Music: Apple Music and Triode
• Podcasts: Apple Podcasts
• Mastodon: Ivory (sometimes Mona)
• Password Management: Apple Passwords (migrating there)
• App Launcher: Alfred