All the cool kids are doing these lists of their default apps. It seems fun and I wanted to join. Here is where I stand at the end of 2024:
📨 Mail Service: iCloud, Gmail (Slowly switching everything from gmail to iCloud using DuckDuckGo Email Protection service and aliases in iCloud)
📮 Mail Client: Apple Mail
📝 Notes: LogSeq
✅ To-Do: LogSeq
📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
⌨️ Launcher: Spotlight
☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud, Google Drive
🌅 Photo library: PhotoPrism (Self-hosted)
🌐 Web Browser: Safari (on iOS and MacOS), Firefox everywhere else
📑 Document Archive: Paperless-NGX (Self-hosted)
🧑🍳 Recipes: Tandoor Recipes (Self-hosted)
💬 Chat: Signal & WhatsApp
🔖 Bookmarks: Safari
📚 Reading: Kobo Glo HD
📜 Word Processing: MS Word
📈 Spreadsheets: MS Excel
📊 Presentations: Keynote
🛒 Shopping Lists: Microsoft TODO
🎵 Music: Spotify
🎤 Podcasts: Spotify
🔐 Password Management: Switching from Bitwarden to Apple Passwords
🤦♂️ Social Media: X
🌤️ Weather: Apple Weather
🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo
🧮 Code Editor: Cursor