My default apps of 2024
My default apps for 2024
First year of documenting this. Let’s see how this goes for the upcoming years.
| Category | 2024 default |
|---|---|
| Mail service | Gmail |
| Mail client | Gmail on the web, iOS and Android |
| Tasks | Google Tasks |
| RSS Service | iCloud |
| RSS Reader | NetNewsWire |
| Launcher | Raycast |
| Cloud Storage | iCloud and Google Drive |
| Photo Library | Apple Photos, Google Photos and Lightroom |
| Photos Editing | Adobe Lightroom |
| Web Browser | Safari and Google Chrome |
| Calendar | Google Calendar via Calendar.app |
| Reading | NetNewsWire and Instapaper |
| Weather | Apple’s and Google’s weather service |
| Podcasts | Pocketcasts (with subs mirrored in Apple Podcasts and YouTube) |
| Music | Apple Music (mirrored to YouTube) |
| Passwords | Passwords.app mirrored with Google and Authenticator |
| Budgeting | Copilot |
| Mastodon | phanpy.social |
| Bluesky | bsky.app |
| Threads | threads.net |
| x-posting | Openvibe |
| Games I played in 2024 | Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt; Cyberpunk 2077; Uncharted 4: a Thief’s End; Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom; Mass Effect Legendary Edition |
| Music I learned in 2024 | - |
| Notes | Google Keep (mirrored to Apple Notes.app). I migrated away from Obsidian to this simpler setup |
| Code editor | vim, textmate |
| Terminal | Terminal.app |
| Search | Google; I've been toying with perplexity but it still hasn't proven itself more than a toy at this point. |
| AI chatbot | Gemini, but increasingly raycast is the primary method of invocation to models via the api (google, groq - llama; and gpt–4o) Special mention to Claude, which is getting really really good at helping me with coding |
| News | News.app |
| Chat | iMessage; Signal and Whatsapp |
| Bookmarks | Browser bookmarks are slowly making a comeback again |
| Read it Later | Instapaper |
| Food Tracking | Foodnoms |
| Camera | Camera.app; Pixel Camera |
| Camera physical | Nikon D750 (10yo); Ricoh GR II (9yo); Used Leica Q (8yo) |
| Word Processing | Google Docs |
| Visual design | Figma |
| Presentations | Keynote; Google Slides |
| Development Environment | Code Server |
| Messaging | Blue Bubbles so that I can continue to access iMessage from my Android phone |
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