A blog meme! I recently discovered that early blogger Chris O’Donnell is still at it, and now we’re reading each other again, and he pulled together this list (which I’m guessing started on yet another blog) so I thought I’d join in the fun.
My phone, remember, is an iPhone 13 mini.
- Mail Service: whatever Pair is using, and Gmail
- Mail Client: Mail app (iPhone), Gmail in the browser (desktop)
- Notes: Notes app and/or BBEdit, depending on circumstance
- To-Do: Due
- Calendar: Calendar app (iPhone), Google Calendar in the browser (desktop)
- Contacts: Contacts app (iPhone)
- RSS Service: n/a
- RSS Client: Feedly
- Launcher: N/A
- Cloud storage: both Dropbox and iCloud
- Photo library: all local, baby, 33,000 images and videos clogging my laptop hard drive
- Web Browser: both Chrome and Safari
- Chat: Messages and WhatsApp
- Bookmarks: Chrome
- Reading: Magazines, the New York Times and the internet
- Word Processing: Word, usually
- Spreadsheets: Excel and Google Sheets, depending
- Presentations: PowerPoint, mostly
- Shopping Lists: Pen and paper
- Personal Finance: a mishmosh
- Music: iTunes, streaming subscription + local files
- Podcasts: Podcasts app
- Password Management: Chrome, despite buying a 1Password subscription
- Social Media: Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and Slack
- Weather: Weather app (iPhone) and NOAA Weather (desktop)
- Search: DuckDuckGo (iPhone) and Google (desktop)
- Code Editor: BBEdit