My app defaults 2024

2024
toolkit
Cool tools and apps that I used.
Author

Aster Hu

Published

July 20, 2024

Inspiration

The inspiration comes from a Github project, which introduces the main software of the year. Anyways, below are my app defaults as of July 2024.

List of app defaults

๐Ÿ“จ Mail Client: Spark

๐Ÿ“ฎ Mail Server: Gmail, iCloud

๐Ÿ“ Notes: Org-roam (Emacs)

โœ… To-Do: Org-mode (Emacs)

๐Ÿ“ท iPhone Photo Shooting: Native camera, Foodie

๐ŸŸฆ Photo Management: iCloud, Immich

๐Ÿ“† Calendar: Google Calendar

๐Ÿ“ Cloud File Storage: Dropbox, iCloud

๐Ÿ“– RSS: elfeed (Emacs)

๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Contacts: iCloud

๐ŸŒ Browser: Safari, Chrome

๐Ÿ’ฌ Chat: WhatsApp, iCloud Messages, Wechat

๐Ÿ”– Bookmarks: Safari, Raindrop

๐Ÿ“‘ Read It Later: Pocket + pocket-reader (Emacs)

๐Ÿ“œ Word Processing: Org-mode (Emacs), Typora

๐Ÿ“ˆ Spreadsheets: MS Excel

๐Ÿ“Š Presentations: MS PowerPoint

๐Ÿ›’ Shopping Lists: AnyList

๐Ÿด Meal Planning: none

๐Ÿ’ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB, Portfolio Performance

๐Ÿ“ฐ News: CBC front burner

๐ŸŽต Music: YouTube Music

๐ŸŽค Podcasts: RSSRadio

๐Ÿ” Password Management: Safari

Extra

Some extra categories that are not mentioned in the original project:

๐Ÿ˜˜ Blog Platform: Quarto, Quartz, Hugo

๐ŸŒ Website deployment: Netlify, Cloudflare

๐Ÿ“š Reading app: Libby, Books, BookPlayer (for audiobooks)

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป Code Editor: Emacs, RStudio

๐Ÿง˜๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Meditation: Insight Timer, Plum Village

โŒจ๏ธ Text input: Squirrel (rime)

Credit: Photo by Domenico Loia on Unsplash