My default apps of early 2025
I have not finished my /uses page, but following Sascha's post, here's my list:
- Mail Client: Thunderbird
- Mail Server: Postfix + Dovecot
- Notes: Obsidian, Scratch1
- To-Do: Obsidian
- iPhone Photo Shooting: Camera, NightCap
- Photo Management: Apple Photos, Sigal, fgallery
- Calendar: Calendar.app, Fantastical
- Cloud File Storage: Syncthing on my own server
- RSS: self-hosted Stringer
- Contacts: Contacts.app synced with Google and my own CardDav
- Browser: Firefox Nightly, Firefox iOS
- Chat: the whole lineup
- Bookmarks: self-hosted linkding
- Read It Later: Instapaper
- Word Processing: Obsidian, Google Docs, vim
- Spreadsheets: Numbers.app, Google Sheets
- Presentations: Deckset
- Shopping Lists: Reminders.app
- Meal Planning: n/a
- Budgeting and Personal Finance: n/a
- News: various websites
- Music: Apple Music, soundcloud, mpd with a huge music collection locally
- Podcasts: Overcast
- Password Management: Bitwarden
In addition to the “official” list, I would like to add a few more
- Backup: (needs work)
- Code Editor: Neovim
- Document management: Paperless-ngx
- Launcher: Alfred
- Photo editing: Acorn
- Screenshots: my own scripts uploading to my server
- Social: Ivory, Pinafore
- Terminal: WezTerm
- VPN: Tailscale, Viscosity
- Weather: Yr
Footnotes:
1
iOS app, apparently not available in the app store anymore