( = stock macOS/iPadOS/iOS)
- 📮 Mail Server
- Simply.com
- Gmail
- …both IMAP’ed into HEY
- 📨 Mail Client
- 📝 Notes
- iA Writer (since 1.0 — #lindy)
- Notes.app for rudimentary doc share/collab
- ✅ To-Do
- Reminders.app
- 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting
- Camera.app
- 🟦 Photos Management
- Photos.app
- 📆 Calendar
- 📅 Calendar Backend
- 📁 Cloud File Storage
- iCloud Drive
- 📖 RSS
- NetNewsWire (once every blue moon 🤷♀️)
- 🙍🏻♂️ Contacts Management
- Contacts.app
- 🔎 Browser
- 💬 Chat
- iMessage
- Discord (offspring)
- WhatsApp (regrettably)
- IG DM (unwillingly)
- 🔖 Bookmarks
- Helium browser (Mac)
- Safari Reading List / Reminders.app (🙄)
- 📑 Read-it-Later
- Safari Reading List
- 📜 Word Processing
- Pages.app
- iA Writer
- Google Docs
- 🛒 Shopping List
- Reminders.app
- 🍴 Meal Planning
- lol
- 💰 Budgeting and finance
- Notion
- Numbers.app
- …but also, lol
- 📰 News
- dr.dk (periodically)
- reddit (inevitably)
- TT, IG (reluctantly)
- 🎵 Music
- Spotify (ideally Music, if it was good. Believe me, I tried.)
- (check out these sick playlists, too)
- 🎤 Podcast
- lol
- …but, and when it’s reaaaaally worth it, Podcasts.app
- 🔐 Password Management
1Password(2009–2026, now migrating to iCloud KeyChain)
Addendum
Additionally, I must add the following:
(see slashpages.net/#defaults → App Defaults for the ‘canonical’ list)
- 🎚️ DAW
- 🗄️ Database Management
- TablePlus (Postgres especially, but external MySQL hosts and )
- Sequel Pro (local MySQL hosts, usually WP dev sites) — maybe not anymore; sequelpro.com down since July ‘26
- cPanel (for brochure sites ‘n’ shit @ Simply.com)
- Medis when Redis is acting a fool somewhere, usually (!) dev
- Base for SQLite, although incredibly rare these days
- ⏯️ Live Performance Backing Track
- ShowOne — DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME LOOKING FURTHER, FRIEND! THIS. THIS IS THE ONE. AT LAST. 😭
- 🔮 Whiteboarding / Digital Canvas / Mind Mapping
- 🧠 Personal Knowledge Management / Second Brain
- Notion
- DEVONthink (or so I like to tell myself, anyway)
- 🗜️ Local PHP / WordPress Site Development
- MAMP Pro — OG sh!t
- 👨💻 Code Editor
- VS Code
- Sublime Text for quick/rudimentary stuff, eg. fix a malformed CSV
- 👨🏫 Presentations / Talks / Workshop Facilitation
- Keynote.app
- maaaaaybe iA Presenter 🤔
(to be continued…)
Also, check out what the kid /uses