I’ve had a running list of apps that I’ve used on my various Macs over the years, I’ve mostly just copied and pasted the post and updated things as and when I change my ‘system’ (god I hate that term). Then I stumbled upon this App Defaults post and thought it would be a good format moving forward (you can see lots more of these posts here).
- Mail Client: Apple Mail
- Mail Server: Custom domain for email. I am in the process of killing off my gmail account too.
- Notes: Apple Notes
- To-Do: Apple Reminders
- iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
- Photo Management: Apple Photos
- Graphics: Pixelmator Pro (unsure of future now though)
- Calendar: Apple Calendar
- Cloud file storage: iCloud Drive
- RSS: NetNewsWire
- Contacts: Apple Contacts
- Browser: Safari
- Chat: WhatsApp, and iMessage (I wish everyone was on the latter)
- Bookmarks: Safari
- Read It Later: Folio
- Word Processing: Hmmmm Ulysses?
- Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers
- Presentations: Apple Keynote (but not created one for years)
- Shopping Lists: Reminders (shared with my wife)
- Budgeting & Personal Finance: Apple Numbers
- News: Particle (iOS App), or News websites direct
- Music: Apple Music (or a little web app for 6Music I cobbled together)
- Podcasts: Apple Podcasts
- Password Management: Apple Password
- Journaling: Apple Journal (still migrating from Day One)
- Writing: Ulysses for blog posts and the novel I’m still writing
- Quick Notes: Tot a Mac/iOS sync’d scratchpad
- Text editing: CotEditor
- Clipboard: CopyClip
- System upkeep: CleanMyMac
- Utilities: Ice, boringNotch, AltTab, Pure Paste, Stand, Dato, Wallpaperer, AppCleaner.
And for posterity:
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