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