Default Apps, 2025 Edition
I didn't even realize that it was #blaugust until I read it on David Lyons's Mastodon, but I'm here now one day late to copy his post and chronicle the apps that I use on a daily basis.
- 📮 Mail Server: Gmail
- 📨 Mail Client: Gmail in a Firefox pinned tab
- 📝 Notes: obsidian.md
- ✅ To-Do: obsidian.md
- 📷 Phone Photo Shooting: iPhone 15 Pro Max
- 🟦 Photos Management: Apple Photos
- 📁 Photos Backup: Google Photos
- 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar
- 📅 Calendar Backend: Google
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: Self-hosted SyncThing on my AliExpress franken-NAS
- 📖 RSS: None
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contact Management: Google Contacts
- 🔎 Browser: Firefox
- 💬 Chat: All (but I try to funnel people towards Signal where possible)
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Firefox
- 📑 Read-it-Later: None
- 📜 Word Processing: VS Code
- 🛒 Shopping List: obsidian.md
- 🍴 Meal Planning / Tracking: MyFitnessPal
- 💰 Budgeting and finance: None
- 📰 News: Apple News+
- 🎵 Music: Apple Music / YouTube Music
- 🎤 Podcast: PocketCasts
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
- 🔒 Authenticator: Authy
- 📸 Photo Editing: Pixelmator Pro
- 🖥️ Terminal: Ghostty
- 🗂️ Terminal Multiplexer: tmux