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My default apps and services in late 2023

Published on 2023-11-08 in ✍️ Posts

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To join another trend, here’s my list of default apps and services in late 2023.

Here’s the standard list:

📨 Mail Client: 💻 Thunderbird / 📱 K9-Mail
📮 Mail Server: Purelymail
📝 Notes: Simplenote
🟦 Photo Management: OneDrive
📆 Calendar: Baïkal with DAVx⁵
📁 Cloud File Storage: OneDrive
📖 RSS: Miniflux
🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Baïkal with DAVx⁵
🌐 Browser: Firefox
💬 Chat: Telegram, Element, WhatsApp
🔖 Bookmarks: Firefox
📑 Read It Later: Private Telegram channel
📜 Word Processing: Word
📈 Spreadsheets: Excel
📊 Presentations: PowerPoint
🛒 Shopping Lists: Bring!
💰 Personal Finance: Excel
📰 News: Mostly SPIEGEL and different tech news blogs
🎵 Music: YouTube Music
🎤 Podcasts: Pocket Casts
🔐 Password Management: Bitwarden with Vaultwarden

And here are some additions:

🧑‍💻 IDE and Code Editor: IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio Code
🔑 VPN: Tailscale, WireGuard, AdGuard VPN
👥 Social Media: Mastodon
🌦️ Weather: Samsung Weather
💪 Fitness: Freeletics

Tags: Apps

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https://astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2023/11/08/my-default-apps-and-services-in-late-2023/ My default apps and services in late 2023 Looks like blogosphere trends and the like are back! h/t Jan-Lukas Else Here’s the standard list: 📨 Mail Client: 💻 Thunderbird / 📱 K9-Mail 📮 Mail Server: (not serving) 📝 Notes: Xournal++ 🟦 Photo Management: (not managing, just shoeboxing) 📆 Calendar: Baïkal with DAVx⁵ 📁 Cloud File Storage: nexcess.net 📖 RSS: Thunderbird 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Baïkal with DAVx⁵ 🌐 Browser: Firefox 💬 Chat: IRC in Thunderbird 🔖 Bookmarks: Firefox 📑 Read It Later: (?) 📜 Word Processing: Vim 📈 Spreadsheets: Gnumeric 📊 Pre…
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Jan-Lukas Else My default apps in 2026 Many are taking the start of the year as a chance to update their “default apps” lists. I created a post listing mine in 2023. But as I also had a list of “self-hosted services” I use, I decided to merge those lists, and you can find it on a subpage of my /uses-page now. There are also separate lists about the hardware and the browser add-ons I use. And I know, I should find an alternative for OneDrive. I was thinking about switching to a self-hosted OpenCloud with S3-storage at the latest wh…
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- https://justinvollmer.com/posts/2026/01/app-defaults-2026/ App Defaults 2026 All the cool kids, or at least Robb, Matt, and Jan-Lukas are updating their app defaults, something that started in the blogosphere back in 2023. And I can’t resist jumping on a fun bandwagon when I see one, and so… here’s mine! (honestly not much has changed since 2023 and 2024) ✉️ Mail Service: iCloud, Fastmail, Zoho, all with custom domains 📬 Mail Client: Apple Mail ☑️ Tasks: Todoist 📓 Notes: Obsidian 📰 RSS Service: Feedbin 🗞️ RSS Client: Fiery Feeds ⌨️ Launcher: Alfred ☁️ Cloud Storage: i…