App Defaults 2025
I’ve noticed Pagecord users posting about App Defaults. It’s a trend started by Robb Knight a couple of years ago, and the idea is to record a snapshot of your digital workflow at a particular moment in time. Here’s mine for 2025. What’s yours?
- 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail Web and iOS
- 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
- 📝 Notes: Obsidian
- ✅ To-Do: Things 3
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera app
- 🌆 Photo sharing: Instagram, Irys
- 🟦 Photo Management: Apple Photos (snaps), Adobe Lightroom (professional)
- 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar (also Fastmail, but via iCal)
- 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Adobe (for Lightroom)
- 📖 RSS: Feedgrab (yay!)
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Apple
- 🌐 Browser: Safari (plus Chrome occasionally for dev work)
- 💬 Chat: 98% WhatsApp, 1% iMessage, 1% Instagram
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop
- 📑 Read It Later: Instapaper (rarely use)
- 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs
- 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
- 📊 Presentations: Keynote (if I’m doing a talk, which is rare)
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Scraps of paper 🤙
- 🍴 Meal Planning: Apple Notes and Cooked.wiki (amazing)
- 🎵 Music: Spotify, then purchasing albums I like via Bandcamp (or Qobuz). Doppler for playing purchased music on Mac and iOS.
- 🎤 Podcasts: Apple Podcasts 🤷
- 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
- 👯 Social Media: Instagram, Bluesky, X (I know, I know)
- #️⃣ Code Editor: VS Code (Mac), NeoVim (Linux)
- 👻 Terminal: Ghostty
- Launcher: Raycast (don’t really like it tbh, help!)
- Video Calls: Google Meet if I’m hosting
- VPN: Mullvad. So cool.