Henrique Beier

My default apps for 2024

I first saw this kind of post in Chris Coyier’s blog last year. Recently, I saw it popping up in other blogs (JCProbably and Kev Quirk come to mind), so I decided to give this a try.

📨 Mail Service: Fastmail and Gmail (work)
📮 Mail Client: Fastmail via Safari web app, Gmail in Apple Mail
📁 File Manager: ForkLift 4
📝 Notes: Obsidian, iA Writer and Raycast Notes
✅ To-Do: Things 3
📆 Calendar: Apple Calendar
🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Apple Contacts
🗞️ RSS: NetNewsWire
⌨️ Launcher: switched from Launchbar to Raycast for everything except files and folders, for which I now use Default Folder X
☁️ Cloud storage: Dropbox & iCloud
🛟 Backups: Arq to Dropbox
🌅 Photo library: iCloud
🎨 Photo editing: Apple Photos, Lightroom for iOS and processing
📸 Screenshots: CleanShot X and Hustl for timelapses
🌎 Browser: Safari
💬 Chat: WhatsApp
🔖 Bookmarks: Safari
📑 Read Later: open tabs in Safari, unfortunately
📚 Reading: Kindle Paperwhite (7th gen) and Kindle apps on mobile devices
📜 Word Processing: iA Writer and Apple Pages
📈 Spreadsheets: Apple Numbers
📊 Presentations: Adobe InDesign
🛒 Shopping Lists: Grocery
💰 Personal Finance: YNAB
🎵 Music: switched from Deezer to Apple Music
🎙️ Podcasts: Pocket Casts
🔎 Search: Kagi and DuckDuckGo
🧮 Code Editor: switched from Sublime Text to Zed for most things
📔 Git Client: Fork
⏱️ Timesheets: Tim

And now some apps related to my practice.

🖌️ Designing fonts: Glyphs
📏 Kerning: Kern On
🔬 Inspecting: DTL OTMaster 8.9
💯 Testing: Font Bakery, FontGoggles, Microsoft Office for Windows and Mac, Adobe CC, TextEdit, etc.