Note
This
/defaults page is just one of my many “slash pages.” It’s similar to my /carry, /posse, and /uses pages, but focuses on the apps and software tools I use daily.You can find other people’s /defaults pages at defaults.rknight.me.
Here are the apps I use for various tasks:
- 📬 Mail Client: Fastmail
- 📮 Mail Server: Fastmail
- 🗒️ Notes: Obsidian and Drafts
- ✅ To-Do: Apple Reminders
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
- 🌅 Photo Management: Photos.app
- 📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar and Google Calendar, linked
- 📦 Cloud file storage: iCloud Drive and Dropbox
- 📖 RSS: Readwise Reader
- 👥 Contacts: Apple Contacts
- 🌐 Browser: Safari (iOS), Firefox (macOS)
- 🕵🏻 Search: Kagi and Perplexity
- 💬 Chat: Apple Messages, with WhatsApp and Signal on the side
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Saved in browser, Readwise Reader, or Obsidian
- 📑 Read It Later: Readwise Reader
- 📝 Word Processing: I avoid Microsoft Word whenever possible
- 📈 Spreadsheets: I avoid Microsoft Excel whenever possible
- 📊 Presentations: I avoid Microsoft PowerPoint whenever possible
- 🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Reminders
- 🥘 Meal Planning: n/a
- 💸 Budgeting & Personal Finance: n/a (have used You Need a Budget in the past)
- 🗞️ News: The Economist, The Atlantic, Washington Post, New York Times
- 🎹 Music: Spotify
- 🎙️ Podcasts: Apple Podcasts
- 🔑 Password Management: 1Password
- 🔐 VPN: n/a
- 🎨 Photo Editing: n/a
- 🏡 Blog Hosting: Micro.blog and GitHub Pages