Default Apps

Inspired by the latest Hemispheric Views pod-radio-show, episode 097 Duel of the Defaults!

So, after listening to what will go down in history as one of my favorite episodes, I thought I would play along and do my own default assessment. I never made sense of Andrew's scoring so I won't be scoring myself.  And all of mine will be iOS, mostly.

Here we go,

📮 Mail Server

• iCloud and HEY

📨 Mail Client

• HEY Email

📝 Notes

• Notes.app, Drafts, and Simplenote

✅ To-Do

• Reminders (personal) and TickTick (Work)

📷 iPhone Photo Shooting

• Long-press on the camera icon/little button

🟦 Photos Management

• Photos App

📆 Calendar

• Fantastical Calendar

📅 Calendar Backend

• iCloud

📁 Cloud File Storage

• iCloud Drive

📖 RSS

• Reeder/NetNewsWire: RSS Reader(backed by Feedbin)

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts Management

• Contacts (often forget this even exists

 🔎 Browser 

• Safari, and Chrome (Work)

💬 Chat

• iMessage, Signal, Telegram, and Discord?

🔖 Bookmarks

• Omnivore and Instapaper (sometimes)

📑 Read-it-Later

• Omnivore and Instapaper (sometimes)

📜 Word Processing

• Pass

🛒 Shopping List

• Shared Reminder List

🍴 Meal Planning ( as Recipe Management)

• Mela

💰 Budgeting and finance

• Pass

📰 News

• When I care to check, News app, and Podcast shows as Today Explained

🎵 Music

• Apple Music

🎤 Podcast

• Currently a battle between Apple Podcasts and Overcast

🔐 Password Management

• iCloud KeyChain

Well, there you have it, This should probably turn into a page for the blog (😂) or should have been a microcast (🙃).

Now, there is one category I would like to add of my own,

📸 Photo Editing

• Darkroom 

What are yours?