Following up on Manton Reece’s default apps post, here’s my list for 2023:

• 📨 Mail Client: Fastmail
• 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
• 📝 Notes: Craft
• ✅ To-Do: Things and GitHub
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
• 🌅 Photo Management: Apple Photos
• 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
• 📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud
• 📖 RSS: NetNewsWire and Feedbin
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
• 🌐 Browser: Firefox Developer Edition (development) and Arc (everything else)
• 💬 Chat: Messages and Slack
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Crafts and my own Raycast plugin
• 📑 Read It Later: Things and Craft
• 📜 Word Processing: none
• 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
• 📊 Presentations: Keynote
• 🛒 Shopping Lists: none
• 🍴 Meal Planning: just started using Paprika
• 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB
• 📰 News: My RSS feeds, newsletters (mostly NYT and The Athletic) and some podcasts. This would deserve its own post.
• 🎵 Music: Spotify
• 🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
• 🔐 Password Management: 1Password
• 🤖 Code Editing: Xcode and Visual Studio Code
• 📚 Books: none
• 🌎 Blogging: Micro.blog
• 🗒️ Scratchpad: Drafts and Boop

I added the Scratchpad category at the end. 💻