Last year, I jumped on the trend back then of posting my default apps i.e. the apps I use on a daily basis for most of my activities, both on the computer and phone.
I had kinda forgotten about it this year, until I saw some people posting their updated list of apps before the end of the year. So I decided to do the same! It'll be nice to look back at this list in ~5 years and see how much I've changed.
But, as I updated the list, it looks like... almost nothing changed. I think my time of hopping between apps all the time has ended (or is slowly fading away). I don't see many reasons to change something that works well, so thankfully most of them stayed the same.
I highlighted the services/apps that are new with the ✨ emoji.
- 📧 Mail service: Fastmail
- 📬 Mail client: Apple Mail
- 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
- ✅ Tasks: TickTick (in 2023, I used Notion as well)
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian ✨
- I wrote some of my reasoning for using Obsidian on this post.
- 🌐 Web browser: Arc on Mac, Arc Search ✨ on iPhone (in 2023, I used Safari on iPhone)
- 📰 RSS service: Readwise Reader
- 📖 Reading: Readwise Reader
- 🧮 Code Editor: Visual Studio Code
- 👨🏻💻 Terminal: iTerm 2
- 🔎 Search: Kagi
- ⌨️ Launcher: Raycast
- ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud
- 🌅 Photo library: iCloud
- 🌤️ Weather: Apple Weather
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Apple Podcasts / YouTube
- 🎶 Music: Apple Music
- 🛹 Clipboard manager: Maccy
- 🔐 Passwords: 1Password
- 💸 Budgeting: YNAB ✨
- 💁🏻♂️ Social: Mastodon
- 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory (Mac and iPhone)
- 🎮 Gaming: PS5
- 🖼️ Screenshots: CleanShot X
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