Of course I’m joining the latest trend. Unlike the social media trends this one seems healthy – or at least not un-healthy. I’m late to the party.

My defaults are very default, but that’s no surprise for folks who read previous posts or just know me.

• Backups: Time Machine, manual copy to external disk
• Blogging: WordPress and iAWriter
• Bookmarks: Apple Safari
• Calendar: Apple Calendar
• Camera: Apple Camera
• Chat: Apple Messages, Signal
• Clipboard Manager: n/a
• Code Editor: n/a
• Contacts: Apple Contacts
• File Manager: Finder, Forklift
• Journaling: plain text files managed by Finder and edited by iAWriter
• Launcher: Spotlight
• Mail Client: Apple Mail
• Mail Server: iCloud
• Music: Apple Music
• News: see RSS
• Notes: Apple Notes
• Password Management: Apple Keychain
• Photo Editor: Apple Photos, Pixelmator Pro, Affinity Photo
• Photo Management: Apple Photos
• Podcasts: Apple Podcasts but I rarely listen to podcasts
• RSS: NetNewsWire, no news feeds!
• Read It Later: Apple Safari Reading List
• Screenshots: Screenshot, yes, the one built in macOS
• Search Engine: DuckDuckGo
• Shopping List: Apple Reminders
• Social Networking: Mastodon
• Terminal: Apple Terminal
• Text Editor: iAWriter, Apple TextEdit
• Task Manager: Apple Reminders
• Weather: Apple Weather
• Web Browser: Apple Safari
• Word Processing: Apple Pages, MS Word when I really have to
• Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers, MS Excel
• Presentations: Apple Keynote, MS PowerPoint

Here without explanation, but it can be found on this blog.