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My App Defaults

In episode 097 of the Hemispheric Views podcast, the hosts discuss their app defaults, which has inspired some people to share their own1.

These are mine:

Mail Client

HEY

Mail Server

HEY & Fastmail2

Notes

Tot & Obsidian

To-Do

Things

iPhone Photo Shooting

Camera.app

Photo Management

Photos.app

Calendar

Calendar.app synced with iCloud

Cloud File Storage

iCloud Drive

RSS

Reeder synced with Feedbin

Contacts

Contacts.app synced with iCloud

Browser

Safari

Chat

iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal

Bookmarks

Safari

Read It Later

n/a

Word Processing

Pages.app

Spreadsheets

Numbers.app

Presentations

Keynote.app

Shopping Lists

Grocery

Meal Planning

n/a

Budgeting and Personal Finance

YNAB

News

Lage der Nation3, New York Times

Music

Apple Music

Podcasts

Overcast

Password Management

1Password

Now there are a few categories I want to add myself:

Weather

CARROT

TV Show Tracker

CouchTimes

Terminal Emulator

iTerm

Code Editor

NeoVim

Photo Editor

Photomator

  1. Robb made a list.

  2. FastMail is handling the domains and forwarding to HEY. Don’t ask.

  3. An excellent German news podcast.