Over the last couple of weeks, I stumbled across an increasing number of people on Mastodon who shared blog posts which included information about the apps they use on a daily basis, entitled “App Defaults”. After doing a quick research I found out that this trend got initiated by Hemispheric Views, a podcast by Andrew Canion, Martin Feld, and Jason Grep, and episode 097, which is called Duel of the Defaults.

Inspired by the podcast and especially by Robb Knight, who created a dedicated website to keep track of everyone sharing their App Defaults, I decided that the launch of my new personal website is the perfect opportunity to share my own App Defaults.

Find my current App Defaults down below ↓

📨 Mail Client: Proton Mail*, Spark Mail

📮 Mail Server: Proton*

📝 Notes: Bear, Scrintal*

✅ To-Do: Things, Scrintal

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Halide

🟦 Photo Management: Photos

🖌️ Design Inspiration/Screenshot Management: Eagle

📆 Calendar: Amie

📁 Cloud File Storage: Filen, iCloud

📖 RSS: Reeder, Readwise Reader

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts

🌐 Browser: Vivaldi, Arc

💬 Chat: Beeper

🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop

📑 Read It Later: Readwise Reader

📜 Word Processing: Bear

📈 Spreadsheets: Numbers

📊 Presentations: Keynote

🛒 Shopping Lists: Crouton

🍴 Meal Planning: Crouton

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: -

📰 News: RSS feeds in Reeder

🎵 Music: Apple Music, Spotify

🎙️ Podcasts: Pocket Casts

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

🚀 Launcher: Raycast

👤 Social: Mastodon, Posts

🦣 Mastodon: Ivory, Mammoth

👨‍💻 Terminal: Hyper

👨‍💻 Code Editor: Zed

⌛ Time Tracking: Balance

This has been a great and fun practice, gathering all the tools I am using regularly. It led to rethinking some of the apps I am using as I saw some overlapping workflows with others. I will keep this list updated, but also share updated posts in general once I make some significant changes to the apps I am using.

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