App defaults

· Ben Yafai


I'm hopping on the trend of letting people know my App Defaults.

I really enjoyed reading everybody else's posts to see what is about - sometimes I get inspiration for new apps to try, other times I'm validated in my choices - both are good feelings.

So, here goes:


📨 Mail Client: Outlook / Canary / Proton

📮 Mail Server: Microsoft 365 / Proton

📝 Notes: Notes.app

✅ To-Do: Notes.app / Reminders.app

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera.app

🟦 Photo Management: Photos.app / OneDrive (iOS backup feature)

📆 Calendar: Outlook

📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud / OneDrive

📖 RSS: Newsblur

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts.app

🌐 Browser: Arc (macOS) / Safari (iOS)

💬 Chat: iMessage / WhatsApp / Signal / IRC / Matrix

🔖 Bookmarks: Browser ^

📑 Read It Later: RSS ^ / Browser ^

🤖 Mastodon: Default web (macOS) / Ivory (iOS)

📖 Blog: super basic self-hosted PHP site

⌨️ Launcher: Alfred

📜 Word Processing: VSCode / Word (rarely)

📈 Spreadsheets: Excel

📊 Presentations: Powerpoint (rarely)

🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders.app

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Excel (rarely 😬)

📰 News: RSS ^ / Apple News+

🎵 Music: Apple Music / Youtube Music

🎤 Podcasts: Overcast

🎮 Gaming: iPhone

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: Warp (macOS) / Prompt 2 (iOS)

📘 Code Editor: VSCode


You can get a little more insight into some of this by checking out my Subscriptions 2023 - there's a lot of overlap and a bit of extra detail.