Inspired by Hemispheric Views episode 97 “Duel of the Defaults!” from awhile back, as well as several bloggers I’ve seen who were also inspired, I’ll go through my own everyday app defaults (sans scores).
- ✉️ Email app
- iOS (and macOS): Mail.app
- Windows: Microsoft Outlook
- 📫 Email service
- Outlook.com
- 📝 Notes
- Notes.app
- ☑️ Reminders & To-Do
- 📷 Camera
- Camera.app on iOS
- 🌻 Photos
- Photos.app
- iCloud for Photo Backup
- 📆 Calendar
- Fantastical on iOS
- Outlook.com as the backend
- Maps
- Apple Maps
- Weather
- 🗄️ File Storage
- Microsoft OneDrive
- iCloud for backups and some miscellaneous file storage
- 📖 RSS
- Reeder on iOS
- Feeds backed up to iCloud
- 📇 Contacts
- Phone.app (which is basically Contacts.app)
- iCloud as the backend
- 🌎 Browser
- iOS: Safari
- Windows & macOS: Microsoft Edge
- 💬 Chat
- Discord
- iMessage
- Telegram
- 🔖 Bookmarks
- Microsoft Edge 🫣
- ⌨️ Text Editor
- Visual Studio Code
- Sublime Text for one-off stuff
- 📊 Spreadsheets
- Microsoft Excel
- 💰Budgeting
- Spreadsheets (see above)
- 🎵 Music
- Spotify
- Apple Music for the iCloud Music Library
- 🎙️ Podcasts
- 🗯️ Social
- Bluesky
- Ivory (for Mastodon)
- 🔒 Password Manager
