App defaults

Just last night I stumbled on The Small Website Discoverability Crisis post while scrolling Hacker News. And here I am tonight, writing a post based on a viral trend with over 150 personal sites participating so far.

The internet finds a way (goldblum.gif).

There's another digital world out there; one buried under the Google SERP and Meta algorithm. But, once you find it, nothing else will do. It's a wonderful place with handcrafted blogs, lingering digital gardens, snarky manifestos (and even snarkier manifes-don'ts), and other fantastic internet oddities that you just won't find on even the fifth page of Google.

Anyway, this trend is dope. I also suddenly feel a little vulnerable about the apps I use. Am I vanilla? Me?

My default app list #

• Mail Client: Outlook & Apple Mail
• Mail Server: Office 365 & iCloud+
• Notes: Notion
• To-Do: iOS Reminders or Notion
• iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera app
• Photo Management: Apple Photos
• Calendar: Outlook & Apple Calendar
• Cloud File Storage: iCloud + but also kinda Notion?
• RSS: Reeder
• Contacts: Why? You want my number? Apple Contacts.
• Browser: Safari but slowly testing Arc.
• Chat: Discord
• Bookmarks: Raindrop.io and it gets used often.
• Read It Later: Raindrop.io
• Word Processing: iA Writer, enthusiastically.
• Spreadsheets: Excel til I die. Also sometimes Airtable.
• Presentations: Just made the switch to iA Presenter
• Shopping Lists: Reminders but I also have a wishlist on Raindrop if you want to get me something.
• Meal Planning: gut instincts (but also shout out to Mela)
• Budgeting and Personal Finance: see meal planning.
• News: Apple News+ and a curated Reeder feed.
• Music: Apple Music (I have Apple One, okay?)
• Podcasts: Pocket Casts
• Password Management: 1 Password (but looking for recommendations. Hit me on mastodon.)

This was fun. Shout out to Robb Knight for cultivating this trend. Happy thanksgiving.