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📚 My App Defaults 2023 Edition
🤖 AI summary
The author shares their list of default apps for 2023, which includes duplicate apps across different platforms. They use a variety of apps for different purposes, such as Apple Mail and Samsung Mail for email, Google Photos for photo management, and Microsoft Word for word processing. The author enjoys reading lists of others' default apps and discovering new applications. They recommend visiting Robb Knight's page for more lists like theirs.
I just read Jose’s blog post and decided to join the bandwagon. Here is my list:
- 📨 Mail Client: Apple Mail & Samsung Mail
- 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail & Microsoft 3651
- 📝 Notes: Apple notes, Samsung Notes & Obsidian
- ✅ To-Do: Samsung Reminder, Apple Reminders & Microsoft To-do
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera & Obscura
- 🟦 Photo Management: Google Photos
- 📆 Calendar: Samsung Calendar & Apple Calendar
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: OneDrive (Family), Google Drive1 & iCloud1
- 📖 RSS: Readwise Reader
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Samsung Contacts & Contacts.app2
- 🌐 Browser: Chrome, Safari
- 💬 Chat: Meta’s Messenger, Signal, Viber
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop.io
- 📑 Read It Later: Readwise Reader1
- 📜 Word Processing: Microsoft Word
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Microsoft Excel
- 📊 Presentations: I don’t make them
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Google Keep / pen & paper
- 🍴 Meal Planning: n/a
- 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Ynab
- 📰 News: n/a
- 🎵 Music: Spotify1, Google Music1
- 🎤 Podcasts: Apple Podcasts & Spotify
- 🔐 Password Management: 1password
- 🤖 Code editing: Visual studio Code & Visual Studio
- 📚 Books: Kindle on iPad
- 🎧 Audiobooks: Audible1
As you can see, I use quite a few duplicate applications - one of the drawbacks of using different platforms.
I like to read different lists and learn what others use, have and like. I like to try something new and find new applications and I always find someone and something interesting. If you are like me and want to see more lists like this list of mine, got o Robb Knight’s page where he created list of people’s blog posts that deals with their default applications.