Default Apps

What is the best way to restart a blog if not by joining a recent trend in blogosphere for fun.

I first saw this on Kev Quirk's blog, but it all started with "Duel of the Defaults!" episode of Hemispheric Views podcast:

I'm an avid Emacs user, so it appears more than once in the list. The original list of categories doesn't include coding, for which I obviously also use Emacs when possible 😛. It is my default app for almost all text related tasks. But for many other categories, I really just use default apps.

So, here are the apps I use:

  • 📨 Mail Client: Mail.app
  • 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
  • 📝 Notes: Emacs (org-roam)
  • ✅ To-Do: Emacs (org-mode)
  • 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Lock-screen button
  • 🟦 Photo Management: Photos.app
  • 📆 Calendar: Calendar.app
  • 📁 Cloud File Storage: Apple iCloud
  • 📖 RSS: Emacs (elfeed)
  • 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts.app
  • 🌐 Browser: Firefox on Desktop, Safari on Mobile
  • 💬 Chat: Telegram
  • 🔖 Bookmarks: Firefox, Safari
  • 📑 Read It Later: Emacs (org-mode)
  • 📜 Word Processing: Emacs (org-mode), Google Docs
  • 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
  • 📊 Presentations: Google Sheets
  • 🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Reminder
  • 🍴 Meal Planning: N/A
  • 💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: N/A
  • 📰 News: N/A
  • 🎵 Music: Spotify
  • 🎤 Podcasts: Apple Podcasts
  • 🔐 Password Management: 1Password

And some extra categories not mentioned in the podcast:

  • 🧮 Code Editor: Emacs
  • 👨‍💻 Code Hosting: GitHub
  • 👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: iTerm
  • 🛜 VPN: ProtonVPN

Checkout Robb Knight's page with the list of people who are joining in.

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