I’ve been watching this go around a bunch and though, “My Uses page covers this,” but Matt Birchler’s emoji use and a rainy holiday means I’m in.

So here are my “defaults” in 2023– of course, it’s Top Four rules, meaning there can be more than one support.

  • ✉️ Mail service: Fastmail (personal), Gmail (work)
  • 📬 Mail client(s): Mimestream on Mac (work), Apple Mail everywhere else
  • ✅ Tasks: Things 3 (barely, mostly paper based)
  • 📰 RSS service: Feedbin
  • 🗞️ RSS client: Reeder
  • ⌨️ Launcher: Alfred
  • ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud (barely… I really don’t do this)
  • 🌅 Photo library: iCloud
  • 🤳🏻 Photo editing: Apple Photos
  • 🌐 Web browser: Safari
  • 📆 Calendar: Fantastical
  • 📖 Reading: Reeder/Kindle/Apple News
  • 🌤️ Weather: Carrot Weather
  • 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
  • 🎶 Music: Apple Music
  • 🔐 Passwords: 1Password
  • 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory
  • 💁🏻 Other Social: Micro.blog, Instagram (too much), and Threads (a little)
  • 🖼️ Screenshots: CleanShot X
  • 📝 Notes: iA Writer (to the extent I do this… I’m not a notes person, and write a fair bit analog)
  • 🧮 Code Editor: neovim (but also Nova… which is creeping up and RStudio… which is creeping down)
  • 👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: iTerm2
  • ✈️ Flight tracking: Flighty
  • 📦 Package tracking: Parcel
  • 📓 Journaling: Day One
  • 🔃 Backup: Backblaze (☁️), Carbon Copy Cloner (🏠)
  • 👨🏻 💻 Blogging: MarsEdit