I saw this floating around and thought I’d join in.
๐จ Mail Client: Airmail
๐ฎ Mail Server: Fastmail
๐ Notes:ย Obsidian (longer term working notes) and Drafts (short term temporary notes–nothing lives in Drafts long-term, it is more like Grand Central Terminal). Public notes get posted to https://notes.cagrimmett.com/
โ To-Do: Things
๐ท Photo Shooting: Daily: iPhone 14 Pro. When shooting photos for real: Canon EOS 6D Mark II.
๐จ Photo Editing: Mostly: Photos. Heavier editing: Pixelmator.
๐ Calendar: Google Calendar and Apple Calendar.
๐ Cloud File Storage: Dropbox, iCloud Drive, and Google Drive for various files. Backblaze for full computer backups.
(I’m not happy with this approach that has been cobbled together over time. If anyone has a better one and has done consolidation migrations, I’d love to chat.)
๐ RSS: Mostly FeedLand, occasionally NetNewsWire
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Contacts: macOS Contacts
๐ Browser: Desktop: Chrome. iOS: Safari and DuckDuckGo
๐ฌ Chat: Slack, Messages, Texts, Signal
๐ Bookmarks: Larder and my own website via IndieBlocks
๐ Read It Later: Larder and Friends with Post Collections and Send to e-reader
๐ Word Processing: Google Docs primarily, Pages if I must
๐ Spreadsheets: Primarily Google Sheets, occasionally Numbers. Special mention to Datasette for exploring CSVs in more detail.
๐ Presentations: Primarily Google Slides. I don’t give presentations often, but if I did, I’d probably use Nick Diego’s WP Block slide approach
๐ Shopping Lists: Reminders on iOS and macOS, in a shared list with my wife
๐ด Meal Planning: When we do it, it is mostly on an index card at home that we stick to the fridge. Occasionally a shared Reminders list.
๐ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance: Google Sheets for high level tracking over time, otherwise we don’t track closely. We follow a 50/30/20 approach (50% of income goes to fixed expenses, 20% to savings and investment, 30% to everything else) and automate the 50 and 20, so we don’t have to closely track the 30.
๐ฐ News: RSS, social media.
๐ต Music: Spotify
๐ค Podcasts: Overcast
๐ Password Management: 1Password
๐งโ๐ป Code Editor: VS Code
โ๏ธ VPN: Work: OpenVPN. Personal: Private Internet Access.
Special mentions:
- Raycast – macOS utility (clipboard manager, search, quick commands for tons of apps, automations)
- iTerm2 – Terminal replacement
- Transmit for file transfer
- TablePlus for local databases
- Carrot Weather for weather on both macOS and iOS. Can pull in data from my own weather station.
- Dark Noise – different kinds of white noise
- CleanShot X – number one screenshot app on macOS by far
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