Defaults (2024)
It has been more than a year since Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views, where we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition.
Others have been updating their lists, one year on.
It seems appropriate that I should do the same.
If there is a change from my list last year, I’ve indicated it with a leading ✨.
| Change? | Category | Default | Comment on Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✨ | Mail Client | FMail2 & Apple Mail | Back to FMail2 app & no more MailMate |
| Mail Server | Fastmail & Apple Mail | ||
| ✨ | Notes | Obsidian for Work; Apple Notes for Home | Different apps for different contexts |
| To-Do | OmniFocus | ||
| iPhone Photo Shooting | Camera.app | ||
| Photo Management | Photos.app | ||
| Calendar | BusyCal (plus Calendar.app) | ||
| Cloud file storage | iCloud (plus OneDrive) | ||
| RSS | Reeder with FreshRSS | ||
| Contacts | Contacts.app | ||
| ✨ | Browser | Vivaldi (plus Safari) | Vivaldi is great, and Arc has been deprecated by the developer |
| Chat | Signal | ||
| Bookmarks | GoodLinks | ||
| ✨ | Read It Later | GoodLinks | I hardly read later anymore |
| Word Processing | Pages | ||
| Spreadsheets | Numbers (plus Excel) | ||
| Presentations | Keynote | ||
| Shopping Lists | AnyList | ||
| Meal Planning | AnyList | ||
| ✨ | Budgeting & Personal Finance | Actual Budget on PikaPods | YNAB became overpriced |
| News | Apple News (plus ABC RSS feed) | ||
| Music | Apple Music (plus Spotify) | I have access to a Spotify account for variety, now | |
| ✨ | Podcasts | PocketCasts | I left Overcast after the disastrous rewrite |
Six changes out of 23 categories. 26% of the apps have been changed. Yikes.