State of the Defaults
I’ve been enjoying other people’s default app lists and am joining the party with mine, including few non-apps too. My blog post title is a salute to one of my favorite podcasts’ most popular annual episodes that cover the same topic.
- ✉️ Email: Edison, Gmail
- 🌐 Browser: Edge (love vertical tabs, but looking for a browser that hides and shows tabs)
- ❌ Ad-blocking: uBlock Origin
- 🔎 Search Engine: Google
- 🔒 Passwords: Bitwarden
- 🗓️ Calendar: Fantastical (purchased before they went subscription)
- 💸 Budgeting: Google Sheets
- 📝 Notes: Apple Notes, Apple Stickies
- 🧑💻 Blogging: Bear Blog
- ✍️ Writing: writer.bighugelabs
- 📖 RSS: Feedly
- 🤖 AI: ChatGPT, Gemini, Runway
- 💬 Chat: WhatsApp, Apple Messages, WeChat
- 🎵 Music: Spotify, QQ Music
- 🎧 Podcasts: Overcast
- 🎬 Film Journal: Letterboxd
- 📚 Reading Journal: Goodreads
- 🎲 DnD: Roll20, DnD Beyond
- 🫠 Social Media: Instagram (used with rules), X (extension-filtered feed)
- 🤦 Dating: Hinge
- 🚴 Cycling Tracker: Strava
- ✂️ Video Editing: DaVinci Resolve
- 🎞️ Video Transcoding: Shutter Encoder
- 📺 YouTube Downloading: ClipGrab
- 📷 Photo Editing: Luminar 4
- 📸 Photo Management: Duplicate Photo Finder Pro
- 🗣 Language Learning: Duolingo
- ✈️ Flight Tracking: Flighty
- 📰 News: RocaNews and International Intrigue daily email newsletters