Fucked up all my financial data in Copilot to start the year through a series of well-intentioned, but ultimately perilous decisions and now I am super frustrated at probably losing years of history.

The last time I wrote about my Default Apps was in 2023. When I saw someone else update their defaults for 2026, I figured I’d join in. I’ll try and use strikethrough to indicate things I no longer use and bold for things that I’m newly adding (but only if there’s no paired strikethrough because that’d be too much).

• ✉️ Mail service: Fastmail (personal), Gmail (work) Outlook (work)
• 📬 Mail client(s): Mimestream on Mac (work) Outlook (work), Apple Mail everywhere else
• ✅ Tasks: Things 3 (barely, mostly paper based)
• 📰 RSS service: Feedbin
• 🗞️ RSS client: Reeder
• ⌨️ Launcher: Alfred Spotlight in macOS 26
• ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud (barely… I really don’t do this), Google Drive for band stuff, Dropbox for scanned documents and things shared with my wife. Still a category I barely use.
• 🌅 Photo library: iCloud
• 🤳🏻 Photo editing: Apple Photos
• 🌐 Web browser: Safari, Firefox–I’ve been using it mostly for the last 18 months or so– I really show/hide vertical left side tabs. I wish Safari would support this.
• 📆 Calendar: Fantastical (This feels likely to change– work has turned off my Outlook access, and I am not sure I have the personal event needs for something like Fantastical. But I’ve been using Fantastical forever, so inertia may keep me there and paying).
• 📖 Reading: Reeder/Kindle/Apple News
• 🌤️ Weather: Carrot Weather
• 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
• 🎶 Music: Apple Music
• 🔐 Passwords: 1Password
• 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory
• 💁🏻 Other Social: Micro.blog, Instagram (too much), Threads (a little), Bluesky (a little), and Discord (a little– I still have never found a Discord that isn’t too fast to meaningfully maintain interaction over time)
• 🖼️ 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), I’m basically all in Cursor, VS Code, and Zed these days.
• 👨🏻 💻 Terminal: iTerm2 Ghostty
• ✈️ Flight tracking: Flighty
• 📦 Package tracking: Parcel
• 📓 Journaling: Day One I’ve basically stopped doing this
• 🔃 Backup: Backblaze (☁️), Carbon Copy Cloner (🏠)
• 👨🏻 💻 Blogging: MarsEdit

Some newer categories:

• 🎶 Recording: Ableton Live (may switch to Logic this year)
• 💬 Messaging: iMessage, Signal – which I’ve always had, but now have a few conversations that have fully moved over there that makes it critical to always have open.
• 💰 Finances: Copilot Money