There have been a bunch of “what apps am I using?” blog posts recently, inspired by an episode of Hemispheric Views. Robb Knight has a page with links to other people’s posts.
Here’s my list:
📨 Mail Client: Apple Mail
📮 Mail Server: iCloud, Fastmail
📝 Notes: Obsidian
✅ To-Do: Things 3, Apple Reminders, Github Issues
📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: Apple Camera
🌅 Photo Management: Apple Photos
📆 Calendar: Apple & Google Calendar
📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud, Dropbox, Backblaze
📖 RSS: NetNewsWire
🙍🏻♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
🌐 Browser: Safari, Firefox
💬 Chat: Messages, Signal, Slack
🔖 Bookmarks: In something of a shock to even me, the browser
📑 Read It Later: Matter
📜 Word Processing: Obsidian, Pages, Word if I have to
📈 Spreadsheets: Numbers, Excel if I have to
📊 Presentations: Keynote
🛒 Shopping Lists: Apple Reminders
🍴 Meal Planning: Nothing (shoutout to Mela)
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Monarch
📰 News: Safari, NetNewsWire
🎵 Music: Apple Music
🎙️ Podcasts: Overcast
🔐 Password Management: Apple Passwords, 1Password
🤖 Code Editing: VSCode, nvim
📚 Books: So many, almost always paper (very occasionally Apple Books)
🌎 Blogging: Micro.blog, Hugo
