App defaults

I was browsing the fediverse recently and I came across this post from Robb Knight:

I haven’t been up to date on my Hemispheric Views¹ lore, but this peaked my interest. Recently, they ran a game show-style episode “Duel of the Defaults!”, hosted by Andrew Canion with the contestants Martin “Mr Default” Feld and Jason Burk², where they answer questions to find out who is the true Mr Default. (Spoiler alert: Martin won)

These have inspired me to do my own list. Enjoy!

The List

Note: I use Linux on my PC so default are… nonexistent. I’m not scoring this.

I copied the categories from Robb’s post

Mail client

• iPhone: Fastmail, Apple Mail
• Desktop: Fastmail web client, Thunderbird

Mail server

• Fastmail

Notes

• iPhone: Notes

To-Do

• Apple Reminders

iPhone Photo Shooting

• iPhone camera

Photo management

• iPhone: Apple Photos app
• Mac: Photos.app
• Desktop: What’s photo management

Calendar

• iPhone: Apple Calendar
• Desktop: Thunderbird

Cloud files

• iCloud+ (200GB)

RSS

• Akregator

Contacts

• Apple Contacts, Fastmail

Browser

• Firefox Developer Edition, Chromium (for school)

Chat

• Discord, Telegram

Bookmarks

• Firefox

Read it later

• Don’t use it
• ( though if i did then probably Safari Reading List )

Word Processing

• LibreOffice Writer

Spreadsheet

• LibreOffice Sheets or something i forgot what it’s called
• Google Sheets

Presentations

• Microsoft PowerPoint

Shopping list

• N/A

Meal planning

• N/A

Budgeting and personal finance

• KMyMoney

News

• Twitter probably

Music

• Apple Music, Internet radio

Podcasts

• Overcast

Password management

• 1Password

Footnotes