My Defaults (2025)

Let’s do this. My Defaults from 2025. If you want to check previous entries - here’s the 2023 one that started it all, then 2024 one is here.

If there was a change I’ll add ✨ there.

✨ 📨 Mail Client: Mail.app on both iOS and macOS, for work - Mimestream (Google accounts only) Fastmail app on Android, Fastmail web on desktop. For work - Superhuman on both phone and desktop.

📮 Mail Server: Fastmail / Google for work

✨ 📝 Notes: Obsidian, Tot and Day One - instead of Obsidian I’m using Standard Notes. I find myself making less and less notes.

✨✅ To-Do: Akiflow and Things Google Tasks - since moving to Android I’m using Google Tasks as reminders. Big things are going to Akiflow.

✨📷 iPhone OnePlus 13 Photo Shooting: Standard camera app

🟦 Photo Management: Lightroom

✨📆 Calendar: Calendar on iOS I moved to Google Calendar, Akiflow on Mac

✨📁 Cloud File Storage: iCloud Google Drive + Backblaze B2

📖 RSS: FreshRSS with Reeder on MacOS but Capy Reader on Android

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts

✨🌐 Browser: Arc Browser for Mac and Arc Search for iOS I’m using Brave everywhere, Chrome for work and Dia for personal projects.

💬 Chat: Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp

🔖 Bookmarks: Browser

✨📑 Read It Later: Good Links I didn’t read anything later so I ditched it.

✨🤖 Mastodon: Ivory and IceCubes Moshidon on Android, web on desktop.

📖 Blog: micro.blog and Day One

⌨️ Launcher: Raycast

✨📜 Word Processing: Obsidian Google Docs mostly.

📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets

📊 Presentations: Google Slides

✨🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders We don’t do that anymore - just texting each other notes on Signal.

✨💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: YNAB Actual Budget.

📰 News: RSS

✨🎵 Music: Spotify - well, mostly MP3s now.

🎤 Podcasts: Pocket Casts

✨🎮 Gaming: PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and Anbernic RG35XX - FPGBC + Nintendo DSi.

🔐 Password Management: 1Password

✨👨🏻‍💻 Terminal: WebSSH Warp.