Some time ago I stumbled upon this post by Matt Birchler. Apparently there is a blogging trend goin on. And I am all for it. I hope I am not late.
In this brief post, I’ll list the default apps I use in the 2776th year since the foundation of Rome (commonly known as 2023). This has been a year in which I removed a lot of stuff and I am no longer jumping from app to app (I blame this to deleting my Reddit account).
- ✉️ Mail service: Fastmail (and Gmail for the spam).
- 📬 Mail client(s): Apple Mail. I don’t mess with emails a lot. I have zero requirements.
- ✅ Tasks: Things 3 (for long-term things, everything else goes on a scrap of paper most of the time).
- 📰 RSS service: Inoreader
- 🗞️ RSS client: Reeder
- ⌨️ Launcher: Raycast
- ☁️ Cloud storage: Dropbox
- 🌅 Photo library: iCloud (and a local backup; make your backups guys)
- 🤳🏻 Photo editing: Pixelmator Pro
- 🌐 Web browser: Firefox
- 📆 Calendar: the Apple default one.
- 📖 Reading: Readwise Reader (but I may switch)
- 🌤️ Weather: Meteoblue. It is the only one that actually works in my area.
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast, begrudgenly.
- 🎶 Music: Apple Music and a lot of Bandcamp bought music.
- 🎼 Music Tracker: Last.fm and RYM
- 🛹 Clipboard manager: Paste
- 🔐 Passwords: 1Password
- 💸 Budgeting: hledger (I love it but it is for crazy people)
- 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory (on iOS), Elk (on the web)
- 🍿 Movie discovery/tracking: TV Time/Sequel
- 💁🏻♂️ Social: Mastodon (the last survivor)
- 🖼️ Screenshots: CleanShot X
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian (but I have a Bear sub for the quick capture on the go; Obsidian is still not there)
- 🧮 Code Editor: Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ (for work stuff)
- 👨🏻💻 Terminal: Warp
- 🔎 Search: Kagi
- ✈️ Flight tracking: Flighty
- 📦 Package tracking: Parcel
- 🖊️ Shortform writing: iA Writer/Obsidian
- 📝 Lonform writing: Scrivener
- 🌍 Url Archiving: AnyBox and SingleFile
I think this should cover up a lot of the apps I used almost daily in 2023. I am pretty happy with this list and I don’t anticipate a lot of changes in 2024. But with my wandering brain, who knows.
