My default apps of 2023

I discovered the app defaults trend via some RSS feed and got lost in discovering what others use.

I think it’s a good archival exercise, both for readers and the writer. And for future internet historians.

As I’m using MacOS, Android (and sometimes Windows), I use apps that have good interoperability.

Here’s my list:

• Mail Client/Server: Proton Mail and Gmail for Google-related things

• Notes: Obsidian and Coda– for shared projects. Here are my plugin selections after using Obsidian for ten months.
  To-Do: Obsidian

• Phone Photo Shooting: Samsung S23 Ultra

• Phone Photo Management: Samsung Gallery

• SLR Photo Shooting: Nikon D610, Nikon F70, Zenit E, Lubitel 2, Smena 8 M

• Photo Management: Affinity Photo, Adobe Lightroom

• Design: Figma and Affinity Design

• Calendar: Proton Calendar

• Cloud Storage: Proton Drive

• VPN: Proton VPN

• RSS: Inoreader and Omnivore

• Contacts: Samsung Contacts and Proton Contacts

• Browser: Brave

• Chat: Signal and WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, Circle

• Read It Later: Omnivore

• Word Processing: Obsidian, sometimes Google Docs

• Spreadsheets: Airtable, and Google Sheet

• Presentations: Figma

• Shopping Lists: Obsidian

• Meal Planning: Coda

• News: Inoreader, Artifact, Omnivore, Mastodon feed, BlueSky feed

• Music: Spotify

• Podcasts: Pocket Casts

• Password Management: Proton Pass

• Weather: Ventusky

• Reading app: Moonreader+ and Zotero

• Books management: Obsidian and Hardcover

• Blog platform: WordPress

Kudos to Robb for keeping the database up to date.

Photo by Ian Edokov on Unsplash