App Defaults

Platform: 

🔖 Bookmarks:  Safari and  Notes

🌐 Browser:  Safari

💰 Budgeting and Personal Finance: Monzo Bank +  Numbers

📆 Calendar: Fastmail

💬 Chat:  Messages, Signal and (unfortunately) Meta WhatsApp

📁 Cloud File Storage: Synology Drive (for everything) and  iCloud Drive (sharing documents with parents)

🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Fastmail

🔲 Diagramming: Diagrams.net

🅰️ Font Management: iFont (iOS and iPadOS)

🟦 Photo Management:  Photos, Synology Photos (backup)

📷 Photo Shooting:  Camera

📨 Mail Client: Fastmail

📮 Mail Server: Fastmail

🦣 Mastodon Clients: Ivory

🍴 Meal Planning: N/A

🧠 Mind Maps: MindNode

🎵 Music: YouTube Music and MusicHarbor

📰 News:  News, Financial Times, RSS, YouTube and Mastodon

📝 Notes:  Notes and GoodNotes

🔐 Password Management:  iCloud Keychain

🎤 Podcasts:  Podcasts

📊 Presentations: N/A

📑 Read It Later: Omnivore

📖 RSS: Reeder

🧭 Safari Extensions: Baking Soda, Downie, Noir, Vinegar

🛒 Shopping Lists:  Reminders and  Notes

📈 Spreadsheets:  Numbers

📝 Text Editor: Visual Studio Code

✅ To-Do: Things and  Reminders

🛠️ Tools: Amphetamine (macOS), CleanShot (macOS), Shareful (macOS), Raycast (macOS), Soulver (macOS), Text Shot (iOS), TextSniper (macOS), Tot (macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS)

⌨️ Typing Assistant: Grammarly

📜 Word Processing:  Pages

🌍 VPN: Proton VPN

🏆 Hall of Fame

• 1Password
•  Arcade
•  Fitness
•  Music
•  News+
• Overcast

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