My Default Apps: 2024

Last year, I jumped on the trend back then of posting my default apps i.e. the apps I use on a daily basis for most of my activities, both on the computer and phone.

I had kinda forgotten about it this year, until I saw some people posting their updated list of apps before the end of the year. So I decided to do the same! It'll be nice to look back at this list in ~5 years and see how much I've changed.

But, as I updated the list, it looks like... almost nothing changed. I think my time of hopping between apps all the time has ended (or is slowly fading away). I don't see many reasons to change something that works well, so thankfully most of them stayed the same.

I highlighted the services/apps that are new with the ✨ emoji.

• 📧 Mail service: Fastmail
• 📬 Mail client: Apple Mail
• 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
• ✅ Tasks: TickTick (in 2023, I used Notion as well)
• 📝 Notes: Obsidian ✨
  • I wrote some of my reasoning for using Obsidian on this post.
• 🌐 Web browser: Arc on Mac, Arc Search ✨ on iPhone (in 2023, I used Safari on iPhone)
• 📰 RSS service: Readwise Reader
• 📖 Reading: Readwise Reader
• 🧮 Code Editor: Visual Studio Code
• 👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: iTerm 2
• 🔎 Search: Kagi
• ⌨️ Launcher: Raycast
• ☁️ Cloud storage: iCloud
• 🌅 Photo library: iCloud
• 🌤️ Weather: Apple Weather
• 🎙️ Podcasts: Apple Podcasts / YouTube
• 🎶 Music: Apple Music
• 🛹 Clipboard manager: Maccy
• 🔐 Passwords: 1Password
• 💸 Budgeting: YNAB ✨
• 💁🏻‍♂️ Social: Mastodon
• 🐘 Mastodon: Ivory (Mac and iPhone)
• 🎮 Gaming: PS5
• 🖼️ Screenshots: CleanShot X