Setup

This is a combo of the Uses This post and the Defaults list format.

Software

• 📨 Mail Client: Mail.app
• 📮 Mail Server: Canary (personal) & Outlook (professional)
• 📝 Notes: Obsidian
• ✅ To-Do: Obsidian
• 📷 iPhone Photo Shooting: iOS Camera
• 🖼️ Photo Management: Photos.app + Apeture
• 📆 Calendar: Calendar.app + Fantastical
• 📅 Calendar Backend: iCloud
• 📁 Cloud file storage: Dropbox & iCloud Drive
• 📖 RSS: Readwise
• 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Contacts.app
• 🌐 Browser: Arc
• 💬 Chat: Messages.app, WhatsApp
• 🔖 Bookmarks: Arc
• 📑 Read It Later: Readwise
• 📜 Word Processing: Obsidian
• 📊 Spreadsheets: Google Sheets
• 🖥️ Presentations: iA Presenter
• 🛒 Shopping Lists: Reminders.app
• 🍴 Meal Planning: Reminders.app
• 💰 Budgeting & Personal Finance: Excel
• 📰 News: Mastodon (via Ivory)
• 🎵 Music: Apple Music
• 🎤 Podcasts: Overcast
• 🔐 Password Management: 1Password

Other apps

• Plex
• Bartender
• Visual Studio
• iA Writer
• Adobe Illustrator & Lightroom

Hardware

• iPhone 15 Pro
• AirPods Pro 2
• M2 MacBook Pro for work
• M1 Macook Air for personal
• iPad Mini + Apple Pencil
• Mac Mini as home theatre centre
• Magic Trackpad
• Dell 4k monitor at home
• Black IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk
• Lifx smart lights
• LG C2 65" OLED TV
• Apple TV 4K
• Panasonic Soundbar
• Olympus E-M5 MarkII
  — glass includes - 12-40mm 2.8, 40-150mm F2.8, 20mm Pancake 1.7