App Defaults post

I’ve picked up on the Hemispheric Views inspired trend for people listing the apps they use. I’ll be submitting this to Robb Knight once it’s live, at the link above. So here goes.

📨 Mail Client
- Personal: Apple Mail
- Work: Outlook

📮 Mail Server
- Personal: Gmail
- Work: MS Exchange

📝 Notes
- Apple Notes
- Apple TextEdit
- Apple Freeform
- Craft

✅ To-Do
- Apple Reminders

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting
- Swipe from iPhone lock screen
- Press icon on iPhone lock screen
- Pull down to reveal Control Centre (where Camera icon in the bottom right corner, as per the lock screen)

🟦 Photo Management
- Apple Photos

📆 Calendar
- App: Fantastical
- Servers: iCloud (personal); Exchange (work)

📁 Cloud File Storage
- Apple iCloud Drive

📖 RSS
- Feedly

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts
- Apple Contacts

🌐 Browser
- Default: Safari (all devices)
- Work: Safari Technology Preview (on Mac)
- Back-up: Firefox (if Safari can't handle a webpage)

💬 Chat
- Messages (all devices)
- WhatsApp (for some groups)

🔖 Bookmarks
- Safari Reading List
- Safari Favo(u)rites

📑 Read It Later
- Safari Reading List

📜 Word Processing
- Pages (for simple documents that I don't have to share)
- Word (for documents that I do have to share)
- Scrivener (for research writing-up, PhD, etc.)

📈 Spreadsheets
- Numbers and Excel (but both are rare)

📊 Presentations
- Keynote
- PowerPoint (if I have to share the file)

🛒 Shopping Lists
- Pen and paper

🍴 Meal Planning
- None

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance
- My bank's phone app

📰 News
- Safari
- Guardian app
- BBC Sport app
- Feedly

🎵 Music
- Apple Music

🎤 Podcasts
- Apple Podcasts... because Castro has been too flakey of late

🔐 Password Management
- 1Password

That’s about it for the standard categories.

I also use: Day One for journalling, Bookends for academic reference management, and Apple Maps. Since the beginning of the year I’ve also started time tracking for work stuff, using Timery.

This was fun!