Default Apps 2026

📨 Mail Client: Gmail (web and iOS) with ImprovMX for domain routing
📮 Mail Server: Gmail
📝 Notes: Obsidian
✅ To-Do: TickTick
📷 Phone Photo Shooting: Default iOS Camera App
🟦 Photo Management: Lightroom or Google Photos
📆 Calendar: Fantastical with Google Calendar backend
📁 Cloud File Storage: Google Drive
📖 RSS: Feedbin (web + iOS)
🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Cardhop (only because it comes bundled with my fantastical sub), rarely opened
🌐 Browser: Google Chrome
💬 Chat: iMessage + Whatsapp
🔖 Bookmarks: Raindrop.io
📑 Read It Later: Instapaper
📜 Word Processing: Google Docs
📈 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
📊 Presentations: Google Slides
🛒 Shopping Lists: A frankenstein system made up of custom shortcuts + Apple Reminders + TickTick
🍴 Meal Planning: PlanToEat
💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: I don't budget ever (used to use Banktivity in a previous life)
📰 News: Google News, but I rarely read news.
🎵 Music: Spotify
🎤 Podcasts: I barely listen, if I do then it's Spotify
🔐 Password Management: 1Password

Also see all the gear I use in Uses page.