App defaults, late 2024

It's that time of year again, so here are my app defaults as of late last year. Because yeah, it's 2025 now.

📨 Mail Client: Mail on Mac and iPad, Edison on Android.

📮 Mail Server: iCloud and Purelyemail.

📝 Notes: Obsidian and Notes.

✅ To-Do: Reminders and Basecamp, but I'm playing with Obsidian for to-dos too.

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera app on whatever phone I'm using.

🟦 Photo Management: Photos.

📆 Calendar: Calendar.

📁 Cloud File Storage: Dropbox and iCloud.

📖 RSS: I use Feedbin as a backend, but I'm in-between readers at the moment.

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts, barely.

🌐 Browser: Brave and Safari.

💬 Chat: Signal and Telegram, although I'm sometimes elsewhere too.

🔖 Bookmarks: Brave.

📑 Read It Later: Instapaper, but I'm still invested in GoodLinks.

📜 Word Processing: iA Writer but I'm starting to compliment it with Obsidian, and Pages (for processing).

📈 Spreadsheets: Numbers.

📊 Presentations: Keynote.

🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders.

🍴 Meal Planning: Nope.

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Numbers.

📰 News: RSS using Feedbin, Guardian, Atlantic, New Yorker, Economist, DN, SvD, and a slew of other newspapers on rotation.

🎵 Music: Apple Music, sometimes YouTube Music in the car.

🎤 Podcasts: No thank you.

🔐 Password Management: 1Password.

If you're curious, here's last year's post on app defaults.