Default Apps 2023

I saw this on Chris Coyierโ€™s blog, so Iโ€™m posting mine.


๐Ÿ“จ Mail Client: The Gmail website and Apple Mail.

๐Ÿ“ฎ Mail Server: Microsoft Outlook (work) and Gmail (personal)

๐Ÿ“ Notes: Notion and Day One (for daily logging/journaling)

โœ… To-Do: Things, 3ร—5″ note cards (for daily tasks), and Apple Reminders (for shared family lists)

๐Ÿ“ท Photo Shooting: Apple iPhone 13

๐ŸŽจ Photo Editing: Apple Photos (I donโ€™t do much photo editing ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ)

๐Ÿ“† Calendar: Apple Calendar app with Microsoft Outlook (work), Google Calendar (personal), and Apple iCloud Calendar (family)

๐Ÿ“ Cloud File Storage: Dropbox (but Iโ€™m looking for the exit)

๐Ÿ“– RSS: Reeder with Feedly

๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Contacts: Apple Contacts

๐ŸŒ Browser: Arc (Mac), Microsoft Edge (Windows), and Apple Safari (iOS)

๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat: Microsoft Teams (work), Apple Messages (personal), Discord and Slack (friends), WhatsApp (for one specific group of family members)

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarks: Arc

๐Ÿ“‘ Read It Later: Pocket

๐Ÿ“œ Word Processing: Apple Pages

๐Ÿ“ˆ Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers and Google Sheets

๐Ÿ“Š Presentations: N/A

๐Ÿ›’ Shopping Lists: Apple Reminders

๐Ÿด Meal Planning: Apple Calendar

๐Ÿ’ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB

๐Ÿ“ฐ News: Apple News

๐ŸŽต Music: Apple Music

๐ŸŽค Podcasts: Overcast

๐Ÿ” Password Management: 1Password

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Code Editor: Panic Nova

โœˆ๏ธ VPN: Private Internet Access

Bonus

Other daily tools for me include: