My App Defaults
I just saw many bloggers share their defalut apps in App Defaults. Here's my list:
- ๐จ Mail Client
- Apple Mail
- Skiff Mail for
hi@lawrenceli.me.
- ๐ฎ Mail Server
- Outlook (available in China Mainland)
- Skiff Mail. Unfortunately, POP3/IMAP is not supported yet.
- ๐ Notes
- Apple Notes (with montaigne.io you can make your Apple Notes be a website)
- โ
To-Do
- Apple Reminders
- ๐ท iPhone Photo Shooting
- Apple Camera
- ๐ฆ Photo Management
- Apple Photos with iCloud Sync
- ๐ Calendar
- Service: iCloud Calendar
- Client: Apple Calendar
- ๐ Cloud File Storage
- iCloud Drive (iCloud+)
- Aliyun Drive (for Apple TV)
- ๐ RSS
- ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Contacts
- N/A, No contacts.
- ๐ Browser
- Chrome on Mac
- Safari on iOS
- ๐ฌ Chat
- WeChat (a must app in China)
- Microsoft Teams (for Work on iOS)
- ๐ Bookmarks
- ๐ Read It Later
- Instapaper in Reeder
- ๐ Word Processing
- ONLYOFFICE (open source office, offers complete compatibility with Microsoft ones)
- Obsidian (popular markdown editor, sync up via iCloud)
- ๐ Spreadsheets
- ONLYOFFICE (open source office)
- ๐ Presentations
- Slidev (Generate the slide/ppt online by markdown)
- ๐ Shopping Lists
- Shared Reminder List with Apple Reminders
- ๐ด Meal Planning
- N/A
- ๐ฐ Budgeting and Personal Finance
- Previously Finances 2 on iOS, currently trying BeanWise
- ๐ฐ News
- Solidot (Chinese version of slashdot )
- Reuters
- Hacker News
- ๐ต Music
- ๏ฃฟMusic (Student subscription only cost 5 RMB per month)
- NetEase Music (As a complement to Apple Music)
- ๐ค Podcasts
- Apple Podcast Universal Podcast Client, no censorship
- ๐ Password Management
- iCloud Keychain
- Google Authenticator for 2FA
My extra defaults
- ๐ Self Hosting
- Cloudflare (for CDN & DNS), Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, fly.io
- ๐ค Automation
- IFTTT, Apple Shortcuts (previously Workflow)
- ๐ Network Tools
