My Current Default Apps

📨 Mail Client: Gmail and Mail (in iOS and MacOS)

📮 Mail Server: Google and my domain providers servers. I'm slowly weaning myself off Google and GMail but seen as I've had it since it was in beta this will take a lot of time and effort

📝 Notes: Obsidian

✅ To-Do: Obsidian A custom built GTDish system using the Tasks plugin

📷 Photo Management: Synology Photos Previously Google but see GMail above. Just started setting up a new system with the Photos tool on my Synology NAS. Again, it will take time

📆 Calendar: Google Calendar

📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud

📖 RSS: FreshRSS and NetNewsWire I run a self hosted instance of FreshRSS with NNW clients. Works very well.

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Hmm, just on my phone I guess

🌐 Browser: Firefox, Safari and Chrome when I have to

💬 Chat: Well, it's what others use. I have one friend on Signal, others on WhatsApp, family tend to be FB Messenger :(

🔖 Bookmarks: A self-hosted instance of LinkDing which is similar to Pinboard but without the iffy owner.

📑 Read It Later: This would have been Omnivore but the creators sold out and crashed the app. Now, its a combo of using LinkDing and Obsidian Web Clipper. For long reads of online articles, I have a custom JS based script that produces an ePub to read on my Boox

📜 Word Processing: Only use a word processor for work when it is MS Word

📈 Spreadsheets: Excel

🛒 Shopping Lists: I default this with Apple Reminders I have a shared list with my wife.

🍴 Meal Planning: I consistently fail to plan my meals

💰 Personal Finance: YNAB

📰 News: BBC (although it is biased), The Guardian (although it is problematic too and the Scotland coverage is pathetic), RSS and Mastodon. I try (and fail) to avoid it.

🎵 Music: Spotify is a family account which I'd cancel if it wasn't for the kids, but I used Plex now for my music collection with a few CDs and vinyl. Online, I buy stuff on the artists websites and Bandcamp. Everything gets scrobbled to last.fm

🎤 Podcasts: PocketCasts

AudioBooks: Audible has been replaced by Libro.fm

Books: Paper is my preference now, and I use Bookshop.org or ebay/worldofbooks/whereever I can find second hand books. I still sometimes get digital books from Amazon or Kobo - preference is DRM free but that is hard. I use the Kindle app on my Onyx Boox Nova 3 or preferably, unDRM them using Calibre and read using Moon+ Reader

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

⌨️ Blogging: Will try to start with Eleventy. This digital garden is built with an Obsidian plugin

Health: Everything is recorded to Garmin via either a watch or Edge 1040 bike computer. Socially, it's shared on Strava and mapping and tracking is done on Veloviewer

📞Video calls: Teams

Via My Current Default Apps – Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden

If you’d like to see more people’s default apps lists, Robb Knight has collected a list of more than 200 participants and growing (it was at 200 yesterday and 208 today!). A few people who I’ve seen chime in with theirs are Benji, Colin Walker, and Manuel Moreale. It also has a template of the list if you’d like to join in too 😉