My defaults 2023
Like many other bloggers who shared their defaults, I joined the club inspired by the “Duel of the Defaults!” episode of the Hemispheric Views podcast.
- Mail Client: Mail (Apple)
- Mail Server: Fastmail
- Notes: Notes (Apple)
- To-Do: Reminders (Apple)
- Photo Shooting: Sony α7R III and Halide on iOS
- Photo Management: Capture One Pro and Photos (Apple) on iOS
- Calendar: Calendar (Apple)
- Cloud File Storage: iCloud Drive (Apple)
- RSS: Reeder (client), iCloud (server)
- Contacts: Contacts (Apple)
- Browser: Safari
- Chat: Messages (Apple)
- Bookmarks: Safari (Bookmarks)
- Read It Later: Safari (Reading List)
- Word Processing: Pages (Apple)
- Spreadsheets: Numbers (Apple)
- Presentations: Keynote (Apple)
- Shopping Lists: Reminders (Apple)
- Meal Planning: NA
- Budgeting and Personal Finance: Numbers (Apple)
- News: Reeder
- Music: Music (Apple)
- Podcasts: Overcast
- Password Management: 1Password
Not as per the author’s template, but I decided to share some of the other extras I use frequently.
- Code Editor: Helix for smaller projects, Visual Studio Code otherwise
- Mastodon: Ivory
- Terminal: iTerm2
- Launcher: Raycast
It will be cool to revisit this list in a decade and see what has changed. Also, many other bloggers listed their defaults as a list prefixed with emojis. If you do so, please keep accessibility in mind and do it right.